Dekanalog has acquired Drowning Dry (Sesės), the sophomore feature film by Lithuanian filmmaker Laurynas Bareiša selected as Lithuania’s official entry in the Best International Feature Film category at the 97th Academy Awards. The haunting family drama celebrated its world premiere at this year’s Locarno Film Festival, where the film won the Best Director prize for Bareiša, and the Best Performance Award was shared by its ensemble cast.
Girls Gone Wild: The Untold Story is a new three-part documentary series on Peacock that delves into the infamous adult entertainment franchise Girls Gone Wild and its controversial founder, Joe Francis. The series includes interviews with Francis’s former employees, victims, and his first in-depth, in-person interview in nearly a decade.
The Honey Trap is a true crime documentary from Emmy-nominated filmmaker Chris Mourkarbel that follows the bizarre love story between former Berlin rapper turned ISIS member Denis Cuspert and an FBI translator who went rogue to marry Cuspert.
Academy Award-winning director Paolo Sorrentino (The Great Beauty, The Hand of God) returns with Parthenope, a coming-of-age drama exploring the love life of a young woman set against the picturesque backdrop of Naples. The film premiered at the 77th Cannes Film Festival earlier this year and also screened at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival and the 38th AFI Fest.
Kieran Culkin will receive the Breakthrough Performance Award, Actor at the Palm Springs International Film Awards for his performance in A Real Pain.
MUBI debuted the first look teaser clip for Christopher Andrews’ directorial debut Bring Them Down, the drama of two feuding farming families in present-day rural Ireland, starring Christopher Abbott (Poor Things and TV’s Girls) and BAFTA-winner and Barry Keoghan (Bird, The Banshees of Inisherin, Saltburn).
Golden Globe winning actress Viola Davis has been named the Cecil B. DeMille Award honoree for 2025 Golden Globes. Davis has been nominated for seven Golden Globes, winning as supporting actress in the 2016 film adaptation of August Wilson’s screenplay, “Fences,” in 2017 opposite Denzel Washington, who is also a DeMille winner.
Revelation Perth International Film Festival announced the nominees for the 5th annual WA Screen Culture Awards celebrating the local Western Australian film industry.
Directed by award-winning filmmaker Dawn Porter (John Lewis: Good Trouble), Luther: Never Too Much, the documentary examining the captivating story of the iconic Luther Vandross will premiere on January 1, 2025 at 8pm ET/PT on CNN.
Bones of Crows, the dramatic feature film written and directed by award-winning Métis and Dene filmmaker Marie Clements will be available to audiences in the US, premiering on Hulu on November 19th, 2024 in honor of Native American Heritage Month.
Helmed by five-time Oscar-nominated director and Thalberg Memorial Award-winner Frank Marshall (The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart, The Beach Boys: An American Family), a new documentary about Grammy-winning and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees Fleetwood Mac is in the works at Apple Original Films.
In 1991, Wanda Holloway, a Texas mother, attempted to hire a hitman to murder the mother of her daughter’s cheerleading rival. The case gained national attention, leading to a number of movies and TV show episodes inspired by the story. The Texas Cheerleader Murder Plot is a true crime documentary that delves into the infamous case, featuring interviews with Holloway’s daughter and revealing a side of the story never seen before.