Filmed in evocative black and white, A Perfect Day for Caribou, starring Charlie Plummer (Lean on Pete; Looking for Alaska) and Jeb Berrier (First Cow; Shrill) will make its US premiere at Slamdance Film Festival. Also starring in the film are Rachael Perrell Fosket, Dana Millican, and Oellis Levine.
Ava DuVernay’a Array Releasing revealed the official trailer for Mars One (Marte Um), the family drama selected as Brazil’s official section for International Feature Film at the 95th Academy Awards. In the film starring Rejane Faria, Carlos Francisco, Camilla Damião and Cícero Lucas, a middle-class Black family in Brazil feels the strain of their new reality after a far-right politician takes power in Brazil.
Brainstorm Media debuted the official trailer for She Is Love, the intense and involving romantic drama starring Haley Bennett (Cyrano, The Girl on the Train & The Magnificent Seven) and Sam Riley (Control, Free Fire & On the Road) as a divorced couple who meet a decade after their split.
David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future, Jerzy Skolimowski’s EO, and Charlotte Wells’s Aftersun took the top spots among films released in 2022 on Film Comment’s annual end-of-year survey. Of the films that screened at festivals worldwide but have not announced stateside distribution, David Easteal’s The Plains, Bertrand Bonello’s Coma, and Laura Citarella’s Trenque Lauquen received the top rankings.
Sometimes we find hope where we least expect it.
A24 revealed the official trailer for Showing Up, Kelly Reichardt’s vibrant and captivatingly funny drama starring Michelle Williams, Hong Chau, John Magaro, André Benjamin, and Judd Hirsch.
A24 unveiled a new official trailer for Darren Aronofsky’s The Whale, starring Brendan Fraser as an obese recluse in a performance for which he received numerous accolades including Best Actor nomination for the 80th Golden Globe Awards.
Kino Lorber revealed the official trailer for The Super 8 Years (Les Années Super-8), the documentary featuring French writer and 2022 Nobel Prize laureate Annie Ernaux sharing home videos shot by then-husband, Philippe, from 1972 to 1981 that feeds into the themes of her work over the past 60 years.
Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden announced the annual selection of 25 influential motion pictures to be inducted into the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress. The 2022 selections date back 124 years in filmmaking to an 1898 film of the “Mardi Gras Carnival” parade in New Orleans to 2011’s “Pariah,” directed by Dee Rees.
CNN announced its slate of documentary series and documentary films to premiere on the cable network in 2023.
Saban Films and Paramount Pictures debuted the official trailer for Out of Exile, the action thriller starring Adam Hampton, Ryan Merrirman, Kyle Jacob Henry, Karrie Cox, Danny Boy O’Connor, Jake “The Snake” Roberts, Luce Rains, with Hayley McFarland, and Peter Greene.
Altered Innocence revealed the new U.S. trailer for Beautiful Beings, the award-winning coming-of-age drama and Iceland’s submission for the 95th Academy Awards. Starring in the film are Birgir Dagur Bjarkason, Áskell Einar Pálmason, Viktor Benóný Benediktsson, Snorri Rafn Frímannsson, Aníta Briem, Ísgerður Gunnarsdóttir, and Ólafur Darri Ólafsson.