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.
Check out the official trailer for Superior, the thriller starring Alessandra Mesa, Ani Mesa, Pico Alexander, Jake Hoffman and Stanley Simons that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Directed by Erin Vassilopoulos, the film will open in New York City on March 25th at BAM Cinematheque along with other theaters across the country including Laemmle Theaters in Los Angeles.
Slamdance announced the winners of the 2022 Slamdance Film Festival with the Grand Jury prize for Narrative Features going to Hannah Ha Ha, directed by Jordan Tetewsky and Joshua Pikovsky; and the Grand Jury prize for Documentary Feature went to Forget Me Not, directed by Olivier Bernier.
IFC Films acquired Fire, the French drama directed by Claire Denis (White Material, Let The Sunshine In, Trouble Every Day) set to make its World Premiere at the 2022 Berlin International Film Festival billed as Both Sides of the Blade (Avec amour et acharnement). The film stars Juliette Binoche (Let The Sunshine In, Clouds of Sils Maria), Vincent Lindon (Titane), Grégoire Colin, Mati Diop, Bulle Ogier, Issa Perica, and Hana Magimel.
Saban Films debuted the official trailer for The Exorcism of God, the horror film starring Joseph Marcell, María Gabriela de Faría, Will Beinbrink, Hector Kotsifakis, Irán Castillo that premiered at Fantastic Fest.
Screen Media released the official trailer for A Week In Paradise, the romantic comedy film starring Malin Ackerman (The Final Girls), Connie Nielsen (Wonder Woman), Philip Winchester (Flyboys), and Jack Donnelly (Death in Paradise). Directed by Philippe Martinez (One Year Off, Father Christmas is Back), the film opens in theaters and on demand on February 11, 2022.
Sony Pictures Classics announced that they will now release Eva Husson’s Mothering Sunday in theaters in New York and Los Angeles on March 25, 2022 before expanding to other markets over the following weeks. The film previously received a one-week qualifying run in Los Angeles in November 2021, making it eligible for all potential awards. Star Olivia Colman has since received recognition from the London Critics’ Circle Film Awards, earning a nomination for “British/Irish Actress of the Year.”