Thesis on a Domestication (Tesis sobre una domesticación) by award-winning writer-director Javier Van de Couter and based on the homonymous novel written and adapted by the film’s lead, acclaimed Argentine trans author Camila Sosa Villada, will world premiere at the 60th Chicago International Film Festival.
Based on the 1989 book The Silent Brotherhood by Kevin Flynn and Gary Gerhardt, The Order is a crime-thriller helmed by Justin Kurzel (Macbeth, The Snowtown Murders) telling the true story of the 1983 series of crimes committed by a radical group of Neo-Nazis terrorists.
Helmed by two-time Emmy-winning director of Elton John: Never Too Late and Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry, R.J. Cutler, “Martha” is a documentary centering on American businesswoman, media personality, and self-made billionaire Martha Stewart. The documentary features an in-depth interview with Stewart with the addition of voices of many of the most significant people from all different stages of her life.
Debuting at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, Payal Kapadia’s feature directorial debut All We Imagine as Light made history by being the first Indian film to win the Grand Prix Award, the festival’s second-most prestigious honor. The film tells the story of two nurses navigating the challenges of their love lives in the patriarchal society of India
Breath of Fire is a new four-episode HBO documentary series exploring the questionable teachings behind Katie Griggs and Yogi Bhajan, the two faces of Kundalini Yoga, a multi-million-dollar spirituality community.
In a three-city presentation, this year’s 25th Anniversary edition of Sound Unseen Film + Music Festival will take place November 13-17 in Minneapolis, December 5-8 in Rochester, and December 12-14, 2024 in Austin.
Filmmaker Jen Muranetz chronicles the 2020-2021 Canada’s Fairy Creek old-growth protests – the largest act of civil disobedience in Canadian history – in the documentary film Fairy Creek. The film will world premiere at the 2024 Planet in Focus International Film Festival on October 17, 2024 at the Paradise Theatre in Toronto. Ahead of the premiere, Cinema Politica has acquired the film’s distribution rights.
Here is the first look teaser trailer for the animated feature film The Magnificent Life of Marcel Pagnol, a biographical film on the life of French novelist, playwright, and filmmaker Marcel Pagnol.
Great Migrations: A People on the Move, a new four part docuseries from Emmy nominated executive producer, host and writer Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr, premieres January 28, 2025, 9:00 p.m. ET on PBS.
The romantic drama On Swift Horses from Emmy Award winning director Daniel Minahan (Fellow Travellers, Deadwood: the Movie, Halston, Series 7: The Contenders) and screenwriter Bryce Kass (Lizzie) which recently world premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival has been acquired by Sony Pictures Classics for release.
The European Film Academy has unveiled the official nominees for the European Animated Feature Film category at this year’s European Film Awards. Chosen by a committee comprised of representatives of the European Film Academy and CARTOON, the European Association for Animation Film, five animated films have been chosen to compete in the category.
Agent of Happiness is a documentary following Amber Gurung, a Bhutanese ‘Happiness Agent’ tasked by the government to collect data on the citizens’ happiness for Bhutan’s Center for Gross National Happiness census. The documentary, co-directed by Arun Bhattarai and Dorottya Zurbó, is set to open in US theaters on November 1, 2024.