
Mehdi M. Barsaoui’s family drama A Son” (Un Fils) starring Sami Bouajila opens in the US on Friday, December 10 at Film Forum in New York and Facets Multimedia in Chicago. The film will open in LA at the Laemmle Theaters on Dec. 17.

Mehdi M. Barsaoui’s family drama A Son” (Un Fils) starring Sami Bouajila opens in the US on Friday, December 10 at Film Forum in New York and Facets Multimedia in Chicago. The film will open in LA at the Laemmle Theaters on Dec. 17.

IFC Films released the official trailer for The Novice, the award-winning indie thriller that premiered at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival and won three prizes including Best U.S. Narrative Feature Film, Best Cinematography, and Best Actress for Isabelle Fuhrman. Also starring in The Novice are Amy Forsyth, Dilone, Jonathan Cherry, Kate Drummond, Charlotte Ubben, Sage Irvine, Chantelle Bishop, Jeni Ross, and Nikki Duval.

“The Rescue,” the award-winning documentary from Academy Award-winning directors and producers E. Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin, will premiere on Disney+ on Friday, December 3.

Four-part documentary series Black and Missing, by multiple Emmy® winner Geeta Gandbhir and award-winning documentarian, journalist, author and activist Soledad O’Brien, follows sisters-in-law and Black and Missing Foundation founders Derrica and Natalie Wilson as they fight an uphill battle to bring awareness to the Black missing persons cases that are marginalized by law enforcement and national media. The series, which was three years in the making, takes on new urgency given the renewed national conversation on “missing white woman syndrome.”

HBO documentary The Forever Prisoner, from acclaimed director Alex Gibney (HBO’s “The Crime of the Century,” “Agents of Chaos,” “The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley”), tells the chilling story of Abu Zubaydah, the first high-value detainee subjected to the CIA’s program of Enhanced Interrogation Techniques (EITs), later identified as torture by those outside the agency. Having never been charged with a crime or allowed to challenge his detention, Zubaydah remains imprisoned at Guantánamo Bay in Kafkaesque limbo, in direct contravention of America’s own ideals of justice and due process. This gripping and suspenseful film debuts Monday, December 6 (10:00 p.m.-12:00 a.m. ET/PT) on HBO.

Becoming Cousteau, the acclaimed National Geographic Documentary Film on the iconic French explorer from Academy Award-nominated director Liz Garbus, will premiere on Disney+ on Wednesday, November 24th.

HBO released the official teaser trailer for the documentary Juice WRLD: Into the Abyss, an intimate, immersive exploration of the all-too-short life and career of wunderkind rapper Juice WRLD. Already headed for superstardom and streaming supremacy by the time he was 18, courtesy of his breakout hit “Lucid Dreams,” Juice WRLD: Into the Abyss captures the Chicago native during the last years of his life as he freestyles with friends, collaborates with music producers, and performs in front of audiences worldwide. The film includes a wealth of never-before-seen footage, including several unreleased tracks, and dozens of industry interviews as it details Juice WRLD’s struggles to reconcile his meteoric rise to fame with underlying mental health issues and a growing dependency on prescription drugs.

Directed by Celeste Bell and Paul Sng, Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché, the new documentary on Poly Styrene, the first woman of color in the UK to front a successful rock band, opens in theaters on February 2, 2022.

Here is the official trailer for Betrayed, the Norwegian World War II drama film based on the true story about the Norwegian Braude family starring Jakob Oftebro (KON-TIKI), Silje Storstein, Carl Martin Eggesbø, Eilif Hartwig, and Michalis Koutsogiannakis. Directed by Eirik Svensson, the film will be released in theaters and VOD on December 3, 2021.

Focus Features released the official trailer for The Outfit, the crime drama film starring Mark Rylance, Zoey Deutch, Johnny Flynn, Dylan O’Brien, Nikki Amuka-Bird, and Simon Russell Beale. Directed by Graham Moore in his directorial debut, the film will open in theaters on February 25, 2022.

Mahamat Saleh Haroun’s Lingui, The Sacred Bonds has been selected as Chad’s Official Submission for Best International Feature Film for the 94th Academy Awards®. The film received its World Premiere at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival and its North American Premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. Lingui, The Sacred Bonds also screened at the Mill Valley Film Festival and it will receive its New York premiere at MoMA’s The Contenders. The film opens February 4, 2022 in the US. This is the third time that Haroun has represented Chad at the Oscars, following his prior films Abouna and Grigris.

The Slow Hustle, a feature documentary directed by Sonja Sohn of HBO’s “Baltimore Rising” and “The Wire”, chronicles the still unsolved death of Baltimore police detective Sean Suiter, fatally shot in the head in 2017 while in the line of duty, and explores the ongoing speculation about what really happened that day.