Roku debuted a new official trailer for Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, a satirical biographical film on the life and career of the parody musician starring Daniel Radcliffe and Evan Rachel Wood. Also starring in the film are Rainn Wilson, Toby Huss, Julianne Nicholson, and Quinta Brunson.
Tallgrass Film Festival celebrate its 20th Anniversary on September 28-October 2, with a lineup including 53 features and 14 short film programs with 195 films; opening with Ravi Kapoor’s Four Samosas, joining the other gala presentations, which include the world premiere of Daniel Fetherston and Danny Szlauderbach’s, We Were Famous, You Don’t Remember: The Embarrassment, Bryan Darling and Jesse Finley Reed’s All Man: The International Male Story, Bradford Thomason and Brett Whitcomb’s Butterfly in the Sky, and Camille Hardman and Gary Lane’s Still Working 9 to 5.
The 53rd Nashville Film Festival (NashFilm) taking place September 29 – October 5 both in-person and virtuall will feature more than 150 titles, including 38 feature-length film.
Following the premiere earlier this year at the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival, here is the trailer for Kaepernick & America, a documentary exploring the intersection between Colin Kaepernick’s anthem protests and the reactions they spurred in the United States, revealing unique insights into America’s ongoing racial turmoil.
RLJE Films debuted the official trailer for Section 8, the action-packed thriller starring Ryan Kwanten, Dolph Lundgren, Dermot Mulroney, Scott Adkins and Mickey Rourke.
3rd i’s 20th Annual San Francisco International South Asian Film Festival: Bollywood and Beyond (SFISAFF) will take place at the Roxie and Castro theaters in San Francisco from September 23-25!
Seventeen films – thirteen features and four shorts – make up the Basque participation at San Sebastian Festival’s 70th edition. Zinemira, the section specifically dedicated to Basque cinema at San Sebastian Festival will showcase seven fictions and non-fictions. A total of ten films, four of these, being a world premiere at the Festival, will compete for the Irizar Basque Film Award alongside another six works screening in other Festival sections.
Here is the new U.S. trailer for Isabelle Stever’s taboo-shattering German drama starring Sarah Nevada Grether and Emil von Schönfels.
The Mill Valley Film Festival will honor writer, director Nikyatu Jusu with a Spotlight program including a special onstage conversation, screening of the 2022 Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner and first feature Nanny, and the MVFF Award for Feature Debut.
Rapper Machine Gun Kelly presents the drama Taurus, in which he himself embodies a music star, and executive producer Roland Emmerich’s team will present the world premiere of the modern Mozart film adaptation The Magic Flute in the new “Sounds” section of the 18th Zurich Film Festival (Sept 22 – Oct 2) screening music films and events with musicians.
Academy Award®–winning Icelandic artist and composer Hildur Guðnadóttir will be honored with the Variety Artisan Award, and Award-winning Welsh Egyptian filmmaker and screenwriter Sally El Hosaini will be honored with the TIFF Emerging Talent Award at the annual TIFF Tribute Awards at the 47th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival.
From a thrilling and uncompromising Argentinian political drama to a chilling British folk horror tale; and a breathtaking story of brotherly love to the poignancy of family displacement during the Syrian conflict in Damascus, 8 films have been selected for the Official Competition for the Best Film Award at the 66th BFI London Film Festival