Fiddler’s Journey to the Big Screen, a documentary film directed by Daniel Raim (Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story) will have its New York release on April 29 at the Angelika Film Center, and Los Angeles release on May 6 at Laemmle Royal. A national release will follow.
Breaking Glass Pictures released the official trailer for Jump,Darling, the LGBTQ+ family drama starring Oscar and BAFTA award-winning actress Cloris Leachman, who passed away in January, 2021 at the age of 94. The film opens in select theaters on March 18 and on DVD, digital on March 29.
IFC Midnight released the official trailer for The Innocents, the Norwegian horror film by Eskil Vogt, a co-writer on the Oscar-nominated film The Worst Person in the World with Joachim Trier.
The Academy Award®-nominated documentary short, When We Were Bullies, from longtime HBO collaborator Jay Rosenblatt (HBO’s “Phantom Limb,” “Human Remains”) has been acquired by HBO Documentary Films; and will debut Wednesday, March 30 (9:00-9:35 p.m. ET/PT) on HBO and will be available to stream on HBO Max.
Flee, Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s animated documentary took the top prize at the 15th Annual Cinema Eye Honors, winning the award for Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Filmmaking. Jessica Kingdon’s Ascension won three awards, the most of the evening, for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography, Original Score and Debut Feature. Both films have been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
Amazon Prime Video debuted the official trailer for Master, Mariama Diallo’s feature film debut starring Regina Hall, Zoe Renee, Talia Ryder, Talia Balsam, and Amber Gray.
Bleecker Street premiered the official trailer for Infinite Storm, the thriller starring Naomi Watts, Billy Howle, Denis O’Hare, and Parker Sawyers.
Kino Lorber will release of the 4K restored I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing, winner of the Prix de la Jeunesse at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival. The film opened the Toronto International Film Festival and went on to win numerous awards and was ranked in TIFF’s list of Top 10 Canadian Films of all time.
The HBO released the official trailer for Undercurrent: The Disappearance of Kim Wall, the two-part documentary that tells the story of journalist Kim Wall, who went missing in 2017.
Kino Lorber debuted the official trailer for Hit the Road, the Iranian road trip drama from Iranian filmmaker Panah Panahi, that follows a family as they take a road trip across the rugged landscape of Iran to drop their eldest son off at the border.
Yellow Veil Pictures have acquired Gaspar Noe’s Lux Æterna and is planning a theatrical release in May, followed later in the year by a full digital and collector’s edition home video release. The film made its world premiere at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival and was later selected for the Tribeca Film Festival prior to cancellation due to the pandemic.
RLJE Films and Shudder released the official trailer for Offseason, a southern gothic horror story film, described as “a ghoulish, tense and utterly fantastical tale set in a Florida beach town” starring Jocelin Donahue, Joe Swanberg, Richard Brake, Melora Walters, and Jeremy Gardner. Directed by Mickey Keating, the film which premiered at Popcorn Frights film festival, opens in select theaters, on demand and digital on March 11, 2022.