International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) return to cinemas from October 14 to 16 2022 for the 51st edition, with a program lineup of 35 films, previously only made available to press and industry online earlier this year. Filmmakers and special guests will be in attendance to introduce their work and take part in Q&A sessions at the event.
India broadcast journalist Ravish Kumar, is the subject of Vinay Shukla’s newsroom documentary While We Watched, world premiering at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival.
Neon acquired How to Blow Up a Pipeline, the thriller based on Andreas Malm’s manifesto tackling the climate crisis which had its World Premiere at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival.
The Michelin 3-star Northern California restaurant The French Laundry – currently run by legendary chef Thomas Keller – has often been recognized as the best in the world, but few know the story of its founder, Sally Schmitt. In an emotional final interview before her passing in March 2022, Sally tells her own story as a pioneering chef of California cuisine and sets the table for another way to look at life: where balance, rather than recognition, is the ultimate prize.
As part of its ongoing collaboration with Bloody Disgusting, Dark Star Pictures will release Missing, the crime thriller starring Aoi Ito (Her Love Boils Bathwater, KASANE-Beauty and Fate, Gangoose), Jiro Sato (Brothers in Brothel, New Interpretation Records of the Three Kingdoms, Gintama) and Hiroya Shimizu (The World of Kanako, Hot Gimmick: Girl Meets Boy, Sadako).
IFC Films debuted the official trailer for Corsage, the period drama starring Vicky Krieps, Florian Teichtmeister, Jeanne Werner, Alma Hasan, Finnegan, Colin Morgan. The film has been selected to represent Austria at the 2023 Academy Awards in the Best International Feature category.
Actress Glenn Close has canceled her visit to 2022 San Sebastian Festival at the last minute due to a family emergency, and Argentinian producer Matías Mosteirín will replace her as the president of the jury.
Jean-Luc Godard, the French-Swiss film director, considered a pioneer of the 1960s French New Wave film movement has died. He was 91.
European Film Academy will honor Elia Suleiman with the European Achievement in World Cinema Award for his impressive dedication to cinema at the 35th European Film Awards Ceremony in Reykjavik. He is the first Palestinian director to win the European Achievement in World Cinema Award.
Paramount+ will exclusively premiere 11 Minutes, a four-part documentary that takes viewers inside the heart-stopping stories of terror and survival experienced by those who were at the 2017 Route 91 Harvest Music Festival in Las Vegas.
Showtime will air The Lincoln Project, a five-part documentary series following the members of the Lincoln Project over the course of the 2020 election and its aftermath.
Greenwich Entertainment debuted the official trailer for Buried: The 1982 Alpine Meadows Avalanche, the documentary on the 1982 avalanche in Alpine Meadows, CA – the deadliest avalanche in US ski resort history.