The 2022 Harlem International Film Festival (Hi) announced official selections for its 17th edition – a hybrid event taking place May 5-15. The film festival will open with a gala presentation of three films making world premieres at the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (515 Malcolm X Blvd.). The films include Jamal Joseph’s A Gorgeous Mosaic, Ano Okero’s An American Street Mural in Harlem, and Myra Lewis’ Love is in the Legend.
Directed by Nils Gaup, the feature documentary Images of a Nordic Drama will have its International Premiere at Hot Docs 2022.
Written and directed by Saim Sadiq, Joyland will be the first Pakistani feature ever to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. Joyland will compete in the Official Selection’s Un Certain Regard and will also vie for the Caméra d’Or.
Menudo: Forever Young, the four-part documentary from filmmakers Angel Manuel Soto (Max Original “Charm City Kings”) and Kristofer Ríos (“Havana Skate Days”), will have its world premiere at the 2022 Tribeca Festival on June 11 in New York.
Apple TV+ debuted the official trailer for Prehistoric Planet, the natural history documentary series narrated by Sir David Attenborough.
Calgary Underground Film Festival will close on Friday, April 29 with Marcel the Shell with Shoes On is a live-action comedy starring Jenny Slate and Isabella Rossellini, based on the short YouTube films of the same name.
The documentary Castro’s Spies tells the story of Cuban spies being sent undercover to America in the ‘90s. Directed by Ollie Aslin and Gary Lennon, the film will be released theatrically and be available on digital May 13 from Gravitas Ventures.
IFC Films will release the SXSW all-star comedy Spin Me Round, directed by Jeff Baena (The Little Hours), co-written with lead Alison Brie, in theaters, on VOD and stream exclusively on AMC+ in Summer 2022.
Cannes Film Festival revealed the 9 shorts presented in the short films competition from the following 11 countries: China, South Korea, Costa Rica, the United States, France, Ghana, Hong Kong, Italy, Lithuania, Mexico, and Nepal. The Short Film Palme d’or will be awarded on Saturday, May 28 during the closing ceremony.
Apple TV+ released the trailer for The Big Conn, the new four-part documentary series that tells the unbelievable true story of larger-than-life attorney, Eric C. Conn, who defrauded the government and taxpayers over half a billion dollars in the largest Social Security fraud case in United States history.
Cannes Film Festival added more films to the lineup for the 75th edition of the festival, taking place May 17 to May 28.
Directed by Nausheen Dadabhoy, the documentary An Act of Worship, will have its World Premiere in the Documentary Competition at the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival.