Thirty years in the making, the documentary Anonymous Sister is Emmy Award-winning director, Jamie Boyle’s chronicle of her family’s collision with the opioid epidemic. The powerful film focuses on the personal toll of the opioid epidemic through the story of the director’s family.
The American Gladiators Documentary, a two-part film on the famed reality-competition show will debut as the next installment in the award-winning ESPN 30 for 30 series.
Factory25 shared the official trailer for Queens of the Qing Dynasty, the Canadian independent film starring Sarah Walker as a teenager who has been hospitalized following a suicide attempt, and Ziyin Zheng as a genderqueer volunteer assigned to watch her in the hospital.
The Czech-Slovak short film Asteríon from Francesco Montagner was awarded the Golden Horseman Best Short Film, in addition to receiving a special mention from the Youth Jury in the International Competition at the 35th Filmfest Dresden international short film festival.
The BFI revealed the program lineup for the inaugural edition of the BFI Film on Film Festival, a brand new film festival and billed as the first major film festival in the UK dedicated to screening works solely on celluloid. The festival which celebrates the physical materiality of film, is set to take place at BFI Southbank from June 8-11, 2023
Musical meets crime drama in a colorful Athens set story of forgotten misfits.
Filmmaker Patricia Chica’s debut feature, Montréal Girls, follows the story of Ramy, a young Middle Eastern poet, as he embarks on a journey of passion, rebellion, and heartbreak after getting involved with two young women who challenge his perceptions and reveal his destiny to him.
Music Box Films debuted the official trailer for L’immensità, the drama film starring Penélope Cruz as a woman stuck in an unhappy marriage, living in Rome in the 1970s. Also starring in the film are Luana Giuliani, Vincenzo Amato, Patrizio Francioni, Maria Chiara Goretti, Penelope Nieto Conti, Alvia Reale Maria, Santella, Mariangela Granelli, and Carlo Gallo
HBO revealed the official trailer for 1000% Me: Growing Up Mixed, a new documentary exploring the experiences of mixed kids and families directed by comedian W. Kamau Bell.
Margreth Olin’s nature documentary Songs of Earth, described as a” breathtaking visual and auditory poem” will open the 63rd Krakow Film Festival on May 29. The film is one of fourteen productions from around the world competing in the International Documentary Competition.
Cohen Media will release Persian Lessons (Persischstunden), the World War II drama based on the story “Erfingdung Einer Sprache” by Wolfgang Kohlhasse, and starring Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Lars Eidinger, Jonas Nay, Alexander Beyer, Luisa-Cèline Gaffron, David Schütter.
