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.
Take Me to the River New Orleans, the second in the franchise of the award-winning Take Me to the River films from director Martin Shore, opens exclusively at the Broad Theater in New Orleans on April 22nd, in New York and Los Angeles on April 29th, before rolling out to select cities nationwide
The 48th Annual Seattle International Film Festival will close on Sunday, April 24 with Phyllis Nagy’s Call Jane.
Netflix released the official trailer for Meltdown: Three Mile Island, the documentary on the “near catastrophe” at Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania in 1979.
Samuel Goldwyn Films released the official trailer for Respect The Jux, the action, crime, thriller film starring Lincoln Smith, Steven “Jabba” Mitchell, Tony Sirico, Robert Costanzo, Ciera Payton and Teeyon “Vado” Winfree.
Altered Innocence debuted the official trailer for After Blue (Dirty Paradise), Bertrand Mandico’s award-winning queer sci-fi fantasy starring Elina Löwensohn (Knife+Heart, Let the Corpses Tan, Nadja, Schindler’s List, Simple Men), Vimala Pons (Elle), Agata Buzek (Redemption), and Paula Luna.
Under the banner “Visions of Freedom”, the 29th New York African Film Festival (NYAFF) will run from May 12 to 17, 2022 at Film at Lincoln Center (FLC).
Netflix has released the trailer for Our Father, a gripping new documentary from Emmy-winning producer Jason Blum (“The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst”).
Lionsgate dropped the official trailer for Escape The Field, the horror-thriller starring Jordan Claire Robbins, Theo Rossi, Tahirah Sharif, Julian Feder, Elena Juatco, and Shane West.