Two new documentary films, Kyra Elise Gardner’s debut documentary feature Living with Chucky and Daphné Baiwir’s feature documentary King on Screen have been acquired by Yellow Veil Pictures, the boundary-pushing genre cinema sales and distribution company.
The 28th Sarajevo Film Festival closed with the world premiere of film May Labour Day by Pjer Žalica. Safe Place by Croatian director Juraj Lerotić won the Heart of Sarajevo for Best Feature Film along with Heart of Sarajevo for Best Actor for Juraj Lerotić. A traumatic event, a sudden suicide attempt, tears the fabric of a family of three in the film inspired by personal experience of the director, Jurja Lerotić, who also won the Best Actor prize for playing the main role in the film.
Los Angeles-based arthouse genre label Deaf Crocodile released a new trailer of their restoration of the lost, independently financed Black action crime film Solomon King (1974), from writer/director/actor/producer Sal Watts.
Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) announced the inaugural MIFF Awards recipients with Neptune Frost by Anisia Uzeyman and Saul Williams winning the $140,000 Bright Horizons Award winner and the Blackmagic Design Australian Innovation Award went to Jub Clerc for direction in Sweet As. The MIFF Audience Award Winner was Greenhouse by Joost directed by Bruce Permezel and Rhian Skirving.
Ahead of the world premiere at Venice Film Festival, here is the first trailer for Jafar Panahi’s Iranian political thriller No Bears. Starring in the film are Panahi, Naser Hashemi, Vahid Mobaseri, Bakhtiyar Panjei, Mina Kavani and Reza Heydari.
Here is the official trailer for The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales, the controversial documentary co-directed by Abigail Disney, the granddaughter of Disney co-founder Roy Disney, that examines the wealth disparity between the rich and the poor in the United States.
Greenwich Entertainment will release Buried: The 1982 Alpine Meadows Avalanche, the gripping documentary of the deadliest avalanche in US ski resort history.
The India Film Festival of Alberta (IFFA) announced the program for the eighth edition of the festival, taking place this fall across Alberta and nationwide.
The European Film Academy Board has chosen 30 films to be part of the Academy´s Feature Film Selection 2022 for the European Film Awards. The Feature Film Selection includes films that the Board of the Academy recommends to all Academy members for a nomination for the European Film Awards 2022. In a second part, 10-15 further titles for the Feature Film Selection will be announced in September.
Apple TV+ debuted the official trailer for The Greatest Beer Run Ever, starring Zac Efron as Chickie Donohue, who wants to support his friends fighting in Vietnam, so he does something wild – personally bring them American beer.
Directed by Irish filmmaker Kathryn Ferguson, Nothing Compares, a bold, multi-layered portrait of iconic musician Sinéad O’Connor will be released in theaters in New York and Los Angeles on Friday, September 23 and stream on Showtime on Friday, September 30.
Neon has acquired All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, directed by Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Laura Poitras, for release in North American theaters this fall.