Directed by Jennifer Tiexiera and Camilla Hall, Subject, a thought-provoking documentary about documentaries exploring the POV of their participants, will World Premiere at the 2022 Tribeca Festival, in the festival’s Documentary Competition section.
The new official trailer debuted for Erzulie, a horror film about a group of young women that encounter a frightening lady of the sea, from director Christine Chen.
The 21st edition of Open Roads: New Italian Cinema, returns to Film at Lincoln Center from June 9 to 15, 2022, offering U.S. audiences a diverse and extensive lineup of contemporary Italian films. With films by directors such as Laura Bispuri, Mario Martone, Nanni Moretti, and Paolo Taviani, this year’s edition features emerging talents and esteemed veterans, commercial and independent fare, gripping dramas and captivating documentaries.
Lisa Cortés will direct Little Richard: I Am Everything (working title), a new documentary about the life of genre-defying, music innovator Little Richard, currently in production and expected to be completed in fall 2022.
Sony Pictures Classics will release Return to Seoul written and directed by Davy Chou, previously titled as All the People I’ll Never Be, an official selection of the 2022 Cannes Film Festival.
IFC Films will release R.M.N., the new film from award winning writer, director and producer Cristian Mungiu, set to world premiere at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival. This marks the fifth time IFC Films will release a film by Mungiu.
Brett Morgen’s Moonage Daydream will open Sheffield DocFest 2022 on June 23, 2022. Written, directed, edited and produced by Morgen (The Kid Stays in the Picture, Cobain: Montage of Heck, Jane) the film which premiered in the Midnight Screenings’ section of the 75th Cannes Film Festival, presents a genre-defying immersion into the art and sounds of David Bowie.
The Archaeology Channel International Film Festival which took place May 11-15, featuring many of the world’s best films on archaeology and cultural heritage announced the award winners with the top jury award (Best Film by Jury) going to Songs of the Water Spirits directed by Nicolò Bongiorno. Songs of the Water Spirits highlights the struggle in the Ladakh region of northern India to preserve traditional cultural identity and a pristine environment without withdrawing into a shell, giving value to the incentives of a modernity that does not imply a cultural mutation. This film shows how brave and visionary minds are working to overcome this conflict by proposing a virtuous mediation.
IFC Films and AMC+ acquired U.S rights to Freegard, the espionage thriller from directors Adam Patterson and Declan Lawn. The film stars James Norton (Little Women), Gemma Arterton (The King’s Man), Shazad Latif (Star Trek Discovery), Marisa Abela (Industry), Edwina Findley (The Wire), Sarah Goldberg (The Dark Knight Rises), Jimmy Akingbola (Ted Lasso), and Julian Barratt (The Mighty Boosh).
Filmmaker S.S. Rajamouli (Baahubali 1 & 2, Eega)’s epic action drama, RRR (Rise, Roar, Revolt), will get a “last chance” theatrical re-release in select theaters across the US for one night only on Wednesday, June 1st.
Dreaming Walls: Inside the Chelsea Hotel, executive produced by Martin Scorsese and directed by Belgian filmmakers Amélie van Elmbt and Maya Duverdier, takes a look at the mythical past and uncertain future of one of the last enclaves of New York bohemia.
Ben Winchell stars in the drama film The Road to Galena as power lawyer Cole Baird, who despite the fact that he has all the trappings of success, he’s crippled by a career he never wanted and a dream left behind.