Girl Picture, Alli Haapasalo’s spirited coming-of-age drama will open the 36th edition of BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival set to run March 16th – 27, 2022. The festival will close with Tramps!, directed by documentary filmmaker Kevin Hegge, whose previous film She Said Boom: The Story of Fifth Column screened at BFI Flare in 2013.
IFC Films debuted the official trailer for Nitram starring Caleb Landry Jones as a disturbed young man called Nitram and the events leading to his involvement in the 1996 Port Arthur massacre in Tasmania, Australia.
Directed by Teemu Nikki, the Finnish film The Blind Man Who Did Not Want to See Titanic is an intense thriller shot from a blind man’s perspective, starring Petri Poikolainen, a blind and wheelchair-bound actor in a gripping debut performance.
Oscar-nominated documentary Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) will make its broadcast television premiere on ABC on Sunday, February 20, 2022 (8:00-10:31 p.m. EST).
Following an all-virtual event last year, the 48th Seattle International Film Festival will return April 14–24, 2022 with a hybrid event that includes both in-person and virtual screenings. The 11-day festival will present the best in international and independent films from around the globe – with screenings at SIFF theaters and venues throughout the city as well as virtually on the SIFF Channel.
IFC Midnight will release Rubikon, a science-fiction disaster film directed by Magdalena Lauritsch, that brings social commentary and an acute moral dilemma into heart-pounding realization.
Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF) announced the lineup for the 37th edition, which will run March 2 to 12, 2022. The festival will feature 48 world premieres and 95 U.S. premieres from 54 countries, along with tributes featuring the year’s top talent, panel discussions, and free community education and outreach programs.
The 12th annual Athena Film Festival (AFF) at Barnard College will take place as a hybrid event, running in-person from March 11 to March 13, 2022 on the Barnard campus and virtually from March 11 to March 20, 2022. The annual festival will include film screenings, in-depth conversations and panels with filmmakers and industry experts, a series of programs that support the pipeline of women creatives, and a wide variety of events focused on celebrating and amplifying the stories of bold, courageous women leaders.
Dionne Warwick: Don’t Make Me Over, the critically-acclaimed, award-winning, documentary on singer Dionne Warwick will be among the first films to premiere on CNN+, CNN’s streaming service debuting this spring. Produced, directed, and written by Dave Wooley, and directed by David Heilbroner, DIONNE WARWICK: Don’t Make Me Over is a deeply personal, intimate portrait of the velvet-voiced songstress. The film yields insights into Warwick’s rise to music superstardom from singing in her grandfather’s church, to her life beyond the lights standing up to discrimination in America and around the world.
Unifrance and Film at Lincoln Center announced the complete lineup for the 27th edition of Rendez-Vous with French Cinema, the celebrated annual festival that exemplifies the variety and vitality of contemporary French filmmaking, taking place March 3–13 in the Walter Reade Theater in New York City.
A24 released the teaser trailer for Men, the horror film starring Academy Award® nominee Jessie Buckley, Rory Kinnear, and Paapa Essiedu.
Academy Award®-nominee Michael Mann (Collateral, Public Enemies, Heat) has cast Academy Award® nominee Adam Driver (Marriage Story, Star Wars) and Academy Award® winner Penélope Cruz (Parallel Mothers, Vicky Cristina Barcelona) as Enzo and Laura Ferrari and Shailene Woodley (Big Little Lies, The Descendants) as Lina Lardi in his upcoming film Ferrari.