The 28th annual Palm Springs International ShortFest announced its Festival juried and audience award winners and the Estonian film Sierra directed by Sander Joon won the Oscar® qualifying Best of the Festival Award. Loosely inspired by the director’s childhood, Sierra pulls us into the surreal car racing world.
“Zanzibar: Trouble in Paradise,” an immersive documentary about Climate Change in the developing world, is one of the first holographic films ever produced in the world, and the first holographic film and documentary on a Looking Glass display.
The 2022 Lower East Side Film Festival (LESFF) revealed the feature film and speciality short showcase lineup for in-person (at Village East Cinema, July 7th-11th) and virtually (July 7th-17th).
Bentonville Film Festival announced the jury prize winners for their 8th annual Festival with Alika Tengan’s Every Day in Kaimuki awarded Best Narrative Feature and Gretchen Stoeltje’s Shouting Down Midnight took home the jury award for Best Documentary Feature. Other awards went to Georgia, by Jayil Pak for Best Short Film and Chiqui, by Carlos Cardona, won for Best Episodic.
Roadside Attractions will release Gigi & Nate, the inspiring drama film, based on true events, starring Charlie Rowe, Oscar® winner Marcia Gay Harden, and Jim Belushi.
Lionsgate revealed the official trailer for White Bird: A Wonder Story, the inspirational drama film starring Helen Mirren, Gillian Anderson, Bryce Gheisar, Ariella Glaser, and Orlando Schwerdt.
Canadian director and screenwriter David Cronenberg will receive a Donostia Award at the 70th edition of the San Sebastian Festival, and screen his latest film Crimes of the Future (2022), starring Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydoux and Kristen Stewart which competed at Cannes Film Festival.
Utopia released an official red band trailer for Sharp Stick, Lena Dunham’s new indie comedy film starring Kristine Froseth, Jon Bernthal, Scott Speedman, Luka Sabbat, Lena Dunham, Taylour Paige and Jennifer Jason Leigh.
Ahead of International Swingers Day (August 13), Kino Lorber will release Mauro Russo Rouge’s intimate documentary Bloom Up: A Swinger Couple Story in theaters on August 12, 2022.
Berlin International Film Festival issued a statement today, calling for the acquittal of filmmaker and 2022 festival juror Tsitsi Dangarembga who was apprehended in July 2020 at a protest in Harare, Zimbabwe. She has since been released on bail, but in a trial, now taking place before the Anti-Corruption Court in Harare, the decision will be made on whether to drop the case or seek a verdict.
Written and directed by Christophe Cognet, the documentary From Where They Stood (À pas aveugles) will be released in theaters beginning July 15, 2022 at NYC’s Film Forum followed by additional major US & Canadian cites.
The 5th annual Academy Award®-Qualifying Indy Shorts International Film Festival returns July 19-24, 2022, featuring a lineup of 150 short films from 25 countries at Living Room Theaters (indoor), Newfields (indoor & amphitheater), Indianapolis Art Center (outdoor) and virtually. This year’s theme is “The Greatest Shorts on Earth” with a carnival focus.