Filmmakers Ricki Stern (HBO’s “Here to Climb” and “My So-Called High School Rank”) and Jesse Sweet (“Killer Robots,” “The Murders Before the Marathon”) examine the U.S. Parole System through the stories of three incarcerated men pursuing release in the documentary “Nature of the Crime.”
From executive producers Prince Harry and Meghan, The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, comes the documentary series Polo, an exclusive, behind-the-scenes look at the fast-paced and glamorous world of Polo.
The Polish film Trains by Maciej J. Drygas won the Award for Best Film and Best Editing in the International Competition at the 37th International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA). The found footage documentary created a collective portrait of people in 20th century Europe, capturing their hopes, desires, dramas, and tragedies.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has revealed the feature films eligible for consideration in the Animated Feature Film, Documentary Feature Film and International Feature Film categories for the 97th Academy Awards.
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.