Director Jane Campion will be honored with the prestigious Pardo d’Onore Manor, the award for outstanding achievement in cinema, at the 77th Locarno Film Festival.
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Jane Campion to Receive the Pardo d’Onore Manor Award at Locarno Film Festival
Jane Campion © Patrick Swirc / Locarno Film Festival
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29th Nantucket Film Festival Unveils Lineup – Thelma, Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story and More
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story (Photo by Herb Ritts / AUGUST.) The 29th Nantucket Film Festival (NFF) which will run from June 19 – 24, 2024, unveiled its lineup, honorees, and Signature Programs.
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Belgian Actress Lubna Azabal Heads Jury of Cannes Film Festival’s Shorts and La Cinef Competition
© Lubna Azabal © Dominique Charriau/Getty Images / Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar @ Guy Ferrandis / Paolo Moretti © Angèle Marignac-Serra ECAL / Claudine Nougaret © Raymond Depardon / Vladimir Perišić © Philippe Lebruman 11 short films from 10 countries and for its 27th edition La Cinef will present 14 live-action and 4 animated short films in competition at the 77th Cannes Film Festival.
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Blink Twice – Naomi Ackie and Channing Tatum Star in Zoë Kravitz’s Psychological Thriller Film | Trailer
Blink Twice (Amazon MGM Studios / screenshot) Zoë Kravitz makes her directorial feature debut with Blink Twice, the psychological thriller film starring Naomi Ackie as a cocktail waitress who becomes infatuated with a tech mogul played by Channing Tatum, and travels with him to his private island, where things begin to go wrong.
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Kit Zauhar’s Indie Drama Film ‘This Closeness’ Sets Release Date | Trailer
This Closeness (Factory 25) Factory 25 revealed a new theatrical trailer for writer/director/star Kit Zauhar’s sophomore feature film This Closeness, also starring Zauhar along with Zane Pais (Margot at the Wedding, Starz’s Three Women) and Ian Edlund (Vimeo Staff Picks Shorts “Mixtape Marauders” and “The Claw”). Actress and singer Jessie Pinnick (Princess Cyd) and multimedia artist Kate Williams round out the cast.
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2024 Tribeca Festival Unveils Short Films and Music Video Lineup
The 2024 Tribeca Festival unveiled its lineup of 87 short narrative, documentary, and animated films, including 65 films in competition and 10 music videos. This year’s Festival, which takes place June 5-16, showcases 12 short film sections, presented by Starbucks, programmed to delight audiences with heartwarming and hilarious storytelling.
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11th Sundance Film Festival London Unveils Lineup – Sasquatch Sunset, My Old Ass, Girls Will Be Girls
Maisy Stella and Aubrey Plaza in My Old Ass (Photo Marni Grossman © Amazon Content Services LLC) The 11th edition of Sundance Film Festival: London 2024, taking place from 6 to 9 June at Picturehouse Central announced the lineup of 11 feature fiction and documentary films, a specially curated program of UK short films and a strand of repertory titles to celebrate the 40th edition of the Sundance Film Festival in the U.S.
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Art College 1994 – Liu Jian’s 2D Animated Film Revisits College Experiences of 1990s China | Trailer
Art College 1994 (Dekanalog) Set in the early 1990s, Liu Jian’s latest animated feature film Art College 1994 is based on his own experiences on the campus of the Chinese Southern Academy of Arts. It returns to the meticulous hand-drawn 2D animation style of predecessor Have a Nice Day.
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New Films by Oliver Stone, Michel Hazanavicius, Rúnar Rúnarsson Added to Cannes Film Festival
(© Shochiku Co., Ltd. – Rhapsody in August by Akira Kurosawa (1991) / Graphic creation © Hartland Villa) The 77th Cannes Film Festival unveiled the Official Poster featuring a scene from the film Rhapsody in August, directed by the great Japanese master Akira Kurosawa, 81 at the time.
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Horror Film ‘The Exorcism’ Starring Russell Crowe, Sam Worthington, Chloe Bailey Gets Summer Release Date
The Exorcism (Vertical) Vertical has acquired The Exorcism (fka The Georgetown Project), the horror film starring Academy Award®-Winner Russell Crowe (Gladiator, A Beautiful Mind).
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Finding The Money – Economists Upend Theories on National Debt in Maren Poitras’ Controversial Documentary | Trailer
Finding The Money (Giant Pictures / screenshot) Finding The Money is a new documentary on deficit spending, the national debt and the controversial Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) featuring economist, NY Times Bestselling author, Professor Dr. Stephanie Kelto.
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Three Promises – Palestinian Filmmaker Yousef Srouji Shares His Mother’s Secret Recording of Second Intifada in Emotional Documentary | Trailer
Three Promises (Tikkun Olam Productions / screenshot) A mother films her family’s life while sheltering from Israel’s attacks during the Second Intifada in the West Bank in the documentary Three Promises. In 2017, almost 20 years later, her son filmmaker Yousef Srouji discovered her archive of home footage.