2022 Green Film Festival of San Francisco presented by San Francisco IndieFest will take place October 6 – 16, with 50+ independent feature and short length films from around the world that focus on green and environmental issues. The festival opens with Pasang directed by Nancy Svendsen, and Into the Weeds: Dewayne “Lee” Johnson vs. Monsanto Company directed by Jennifer Baichwal as closing night film.
Ahead of its World Premiere at the Zurich Film Festival, IFC Films acquired The Almond and the Seahorse, starring Rebel Wilson (Pitch Perfect, Jojo Rabbit, The Hustle, Bridesmaids) in her first dramatic role. The film is based on the successful theater production of the same name by award-winning playwright Kaite O’Reilly. Also starring in the film are Charlotte Gainsbourg (Melancholia, 21 Grams, The Snowman), Trine Dyrholm (Queen of Hearts, Nico 1988, The Commune, The Legacy), Meera Syal and Celyn Jones.
Dark Star Pictures revealed the official trailer Phantom Project, the Chilean comedy starring Juan Cano, Fernando Castillo, Violeta Castillo, Ingrid Isensee, Paloma Larrain, Fernanda Toledo.
Mark Fletcher’s Patrick and the Whale opens and Kathlyn Horan’s The Return of Tanya Tucker – Featuring Brandi Carlile will close the 31st Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival taking place October 7-15 at the Arlington Hotel & Spa. Ben Klein and Violet Columbus’ The Exiles and Shaunak Sen’s All That Breathes will screen as the Centerpiece Selections.
The animated feature My Love Affair With Marriage by Latvian-born and Brooklyn-based Signe Baumane will open the 5th New York Baltic Film Festival (NYBFF) presented by Scandinavia House: The Nordic Center in America. The festival runs November 2-13, 2022 as a hybrid festival screening new and critically-acclaimed Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian films in-person in NYC November 2-6 and virtually November 4-13.
Quiver dropped the official trailer for Bromates, the buddy comedy starring Lil Rel Howery and Josh Brener as two best friends who break up with their girlfriends at the same time and decide to move in with each other.
HBO debuted the official trailer for Hostages, the riveting documentary series on the 1979 Iran hostage crisis, when Iranian college students took over the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and held United States diplomats and citizens hostage for 444 days.
Mubi revealed the official trailer for Decision to Leave, the seductive romantic thriller starring Tang Wei (Lust, Caution) and Park Hae-il (The Host) selected as the South Korean entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 95th Academy Awards.
The World Premiere of Apple Original documentary film Selena Gomez: My Mind and Me will open the 36th edition of AFI FEST on Wednesday, November 2.
Screamfest Horror Film Festival announced their first-wave lineup of competitive features and shorts for its 22nd edition running October 11th through 20th at the TCL Chinese Theater.
Big World Pictures will release Taming the Garden, the Georgian documentary of how a powerful man indulges in an unusual hobby by having century-old trees uprooted in communities along the Georgian coast and transplanted to his private garden.
Showtime debuted an official trailer for Nothing Compares, the award-winning documentary charting Sinéad OʼConnorʼs phenomenal rise to worldwide fame and examines how she used her voice at the height of her stardom, before her iconoclastic personality led to her exile from the pop mainstream.