Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story dominated at the 9th Critics Choice Documentary Awards, winning all six of its nominated categories, including a tie with Will & Harper for Best Documentary Feature, along with wins for Best Director for Ian Bonhôte and Peter Ettedgui, Best Editing for Otto Burnham, Best Score for Ilan Eshkeri, Best Archival Documentary, and Best Biographical Documentary.
Based on the 2021 novel Foregone by Russell Banks, Oh, Canada marks the second collaboration between director Paul Schrader and lead actor Richard Gere after 1997’s Affliction. The film follows the story of an aging filmmaker (played by Gere) telling the unfiltered story of his life for a documentary. Oh, Canada world premiered at the 77th Cannes Film Festival and also screened at the 38th AFI Fest.
Amid the buzz of U.S. presidential election, a diverse lineup of new films is hitting theaters. Making his feature directorial debut, Malcolm Washington—son of Oscar-winning actor Denzel Washington—presents The Piano Lesson, an adaptation of August Wilson’s Pullitzer Prize-winning 1987 play. Anthony Mackie stars in George Nolfi’s post-apocalyptic thriller Elevation. For martial arts fans, the period-piece film 100 Yards offers hard-hitting action. After his recent Oscar win, Cillian Murphy returns in the mystery Small Things Like These, set in a quiet Irish town. Hugh Grant stars in the new A24 horror film, Heretic, and Cannes-premiering director Andrea Arnold presents Bird, a coming-of-age story.
Ahead of the market premiere at AFM, here is the first-look footage trailer of Behind the Lines, the new feature documentary based on the New York Times bestselling book of the same name by the renowned historian Andrew Carroll.
The 75th Berlin International Film Festival will celebrate the offbeat and the wacky, mix it up with action, thrills, and graphic visuals of genre films from East and West Germany made in the 1970s, by showcasing 15 films in the Retrospective themed “Wild, Weird, Bloody”.
Netflix has unveiled the official trailer for The Only Girl in the Orchestra, a short documentary that tells the story of double bassist Orin O’Brien. Directed by her niece, Molly O’Brien, the film follows Orin’s journey as the first woman to become a full-time member of the New York Philharmonic, performing under the direction of the legendary conductor Leonard Bernstein.
Following its world premiere at the 2024 FrightFest UK and its US premiere at the 2024 Screamfest Horror Film Festival, Dark Sky Films has unveiled the trailer for Cody Ashford’s Drive Back. The film tells the story of a couple trying to survive a killer while on a road trip celebrating their engagement.
Directed by Joe Berlinger, the Netflix documentary series Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenét Ramsey investigates the mishandling of the infamous murder case by law enforcement and the media.
After a 10-year hiatus from filmmaking, Oscar-nominated director Joshua Oppenheimer (The Act of Killing, The Look of Silence) returns with his first narrative feature film, The End. The film follows the story of a family living in a bunker in a post-apocalyptic world.
Directed by Luke Sparke (Occupation, Occupation Rainfall), the horror film Scurry starring Jamie Costa (Kenobi: A Star Wars Story, Bring Him To Me) and Emalia (Paramount+ Paper Dolls) made its festival world premiere at the 2024 Sydney Science Fiction Film Festival where it won the Audience Choice. It was written by Tom Evans (Bring Him To Me).
The new crime comedy film Too Many Crooks starring William H. Macy (Fargo, Shameless) will make its world market premiere and be introduced to distributors from across the globe at American Film Market (AFM).
