Amazon Prime Video debuted the official trailer for Argentina, 1985, the thriller inspired by the true story of public prosecutors Julio Strassera and Luis Moreno Ocampo, who dared to investigate and prosecute Argentina’s bloodiest military dictatorship in 1985. The film stars Ricardo Darín (The Secret in Their Eyes, Wild Tales), and Peter Lanzani.
National Geographic released the teaser trailer for Retrograde, the new documentary from Oscar-nominated and Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Matthew Heineman world premiering at the 2022 Telluride Film Festival. The documentary film captures the final nine months of America’s 20-year war in Afghanistan from multiple perspectives and offers a cinematic and historic window onto the end of America’s longest war, and the costs endured for those most intimately involved.
National Geographic Documentary Films has acquired Bobi Wine: The People’s President, which premiered at Venice Film Festival under the working title Bobi Wine: Ghetto President, from directors Moses Bwayo and Christopher Sharp. The documentary which is playing at Telluride Film Festival over the Labor Day weekend, charts the rise of the pop star-turned-politician seeking to end Uganda’s brutal dictatorship. National Geographic will rollout Bobi Wine: The People’s President at global festivals including London Film Festival throughout the rest of the year and release it in theaters in 2023.
Three Danish films are Holy Spider by Ali Abbasi, Forever by Frelle Petersen and As in Heaven by Tea Lindeburg have been shortlisted as Denmark’s candidate in the International Feature Film category for the 95th Oscars. The winners will be decided on September 27.
Here is a new clip from the South African caper heist comedy feature film, The Umbrella Men, making its international premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) on September 10th, 2022, as a selection of the international arm of its Contemporary World Cinema slate.
Award-winning creative studio ScanLAB Projects will World Premiere the immersive art installation, FRAMERATE: Pulse of the Earth, as part of the prestigious Venice Immersive section at La Biennale di Venezia’s Venice International Film Festival 2022.
Showtime Sports new documentary McEnroe takes a close-up look at the all-time tennis great John McEnroe’s 1981 Wimbledon victory and subsequent controversy for skipping out on the traditional Champions’ Dinner at the end of the tournament.
Directed by Gregory Bezat, The Art of Eating: The Life of M.F.K. Fisher, the new documentary on California food writer Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher will World Premiere at Mill Valley Film Festival. The documentary traces the remarkable life of iconic California food writer Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher and explores the impact of her ideas on food, its meaning in our lives, and how her writing laid the foundation of modern food writing.
MTV Documentary Films released the official trailer for Last Flight Home, Ondi Timoner’s intimate documentary film about her family’s deeply moving journey to find closure. The film received its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, along with official selections at Telluride Film Festival, London Film Festival; and will open in New York (IFC Center) on October 7 and Los Angeles (Laemmle Monica and Glendale) on October 14 with other cities to follow.
Netflix debuted the official teaser trailer for The Swimmers, the drama starring Nathalie Issa (Yusra), Manal Issa (Sara), Matthias Schweighöfer (Sven), Ahmed Malek (Nizar), James Krishna Floyd (Emad), Nahel Tzegai (Shada) and Kinda Alloush (Mervat) with Ali Suliman (Ezzat).
Quiver released the official trailer for Dead For A Dollar, the Western drama starring Christoph Waltz, Willem Dafoe, Rachel Brosnahan, Brandon Scott, Warren Burke, Benjamin Bratt, Hamish Linklater, Guy Burnet.
Here is the official poster for Women Talking, the drama directed by Sarah Polley set to World Premiere at the Telluride Film Festival this Friday, September 2nd, with a special tribute to the Polley. Based on the novel by Miriam Toews, the film is set in 2010 where the women of an isolated religious community grapple with reconciling their reality with their faith.