Selcen Ergun won the New Directors Award for her debut film Snow and the Bear at the 66th San Francisco International Film Festival (SFFILM Festival). In the Turkish film, a young nurse begins a new assignment at a wintry, remote village when a man goes missing.
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The indie comedy film Dotty & Soul is coming to VOD, joining the already released films the genre thriller God’s Petting You and the Argentinian slasher film Virtual Reality. Directed by Adam Saunders, Dotty & Soul will be released on May 19th, Jamie Patterson’s God’s Petting You on April 21, 2023 and Virtual Reality by Hernán Findling is currently playing VOD.
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
