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.
IFC Midnight released the official trailer for Barbarians, the thriller starring Iwan Rheon of Game of Thrones that premiered at Sundance Film Festival. Also starring in the film are Catalina Sandino Moreno, Tom Cullen and Inès Spiridonov.
HBO Max Original released the official trailer for Gaming Wall Street, the two-part documentary narrated by Kieran Culkin (HBO’s “Succession”), exploring the historic 2021 short squeeze of GameStop, and how a group of armchair investors and online vigilantes ultimately helped expose the dark underbelly of Wall Street.
Crunchyroll released a new official trailer for Jujutsu Kaisen 0, the dark fantasy film from TOHO Animation, directed by Sunghoo Park, opening in theaters on March 18, 2022. The film will also be released in select U.S. based IMAX® theaters.
Ahead of the premiere at the 2022 Santa Barbara International Film Festival, the first trailer debuted for the documentary Pasang: In the Shadow of Everest, the feature film directorial debut of filmmaker Nancy Svendsen.
The 8th Nitehawk Shorts Festival, taking place from March 2-6, will feature over 60 short films, with filmmakers in attendance for Q&As, including many based in New York City. Continuing its mission to represent diverse backgrounds, voices, and perspectives with our selection of exceptional short-form films, female-directed films make up a majority of this year’s festival program.
Directed by Eric Warin and Tahir Ran, the animated film Charlotte, the true story of Charlotte Salomon, a young German-Jewish artist who comes of age on the eve of the Second World War will be released in theaters starting Friday, April 22, 2022.
