The Teachers’ Lounge by German director İlker Çatak is the winner of the LUX European Audience Film Award voted on by the European public and the members of the European Parliament. Johannes Duncker who co-wrote the screenplay with İlker Çatak, accepted the Award at a ceremony in the European Parliament in Brussels.
After taking more than sixteen years to bring Abel Gance’s masterwork back to life, the restored Napoléon (1st period) will be unveiled on May 14 as a world premiere as the opening film of Cannes Classics at the 77th Festival de Cannes
Beethoven’s Nine: Ode to Humanity, the new feature documentary from Emmy-winning and Oscar®-nominated Canadian filmmaker Larry Weinstein will have its World Premiere at Hot Docs Canadian Documentary Film Festival on April 28.
The award-winning documentary Queendom follows Gena, a queer artist from a small town in Russia, who stages radical performances in public that has become a new form of art and activism, putting her life in danger.
Ahead of the Tribeca Film Festival world premiere of She Loved Blossoms More, Yannis Veslemes’ sophomore feature and surrealistic science-fiction drama, Yellow Veil Pictures has come on board for world sales.
Magnolia Pictures shared the official trailer for What You Wish For, the thriller film starring Nick Stahl as a chef with gambling problems who flees to a Latin American villa where he assumes another man’s identity.
Sony Pictures Classics revealed the official trailer for Daddio, the drama film starring Sean Penn as a taxi driver, and Dakota Johnson as a young woman who after landing at JFK airport in New York City, jumps into the backseat of a yellow taxi driven by Penn. What begins as amusing chit chat quickly takes a turn towards mysterious and playful, then grows into viscerally honest revelations about relationships, sex and power dynamics, loss and vulnerability.
Lionsgate debuted the official trailer for Dancing Village: The Curse Begins, the Indonesian horror thriller film and prequel to KKN Di Desa Penari, which was the highest grossing Indonesian film in history when it was released in 2022.
Coming soon to Apple TV+ is Hollywood Con Queen, a new three-part documentary series from Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Chris Smith (“Tiger King,” “Fyre,” “100 Foot Wave”).
Factory 25 has acquired writer/director Lucy Kerr’s award-winning feature directorial debut Family Portrait which world premiered at the 2023 Locarno Film Festival in the Concorso Cineasti del presente section, and won the Boccalino d’Oro for Best Director for Kerr.
The drama/thriller film The Ghost Trap, based on the novel of the same name by K. Stephens, will make its world premiere on April 19, 2024 at the RiverRun Film Festival in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
