MUBI will release Great Freedom (Große Freiheit), the Austrian submission for Best International Feature at 2022 Academy Awards, which received its World Premiere at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival and won the Un Certain Regard Jury Prize.
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GREAT FREEDOM Teaser Trailer. Gay Drama and Austrian Oscar Submission Opens in US in March
Great Freedom (Große Freiheit)
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2022 Sundance Film Festival Announces Feature Films, Indie Episodic, New Frontier Lineups
When You Finish Saving the World The 2022 Sundance Film Festival set to take place January 20–30, 2022, announced the films selected in the Feature Film, Indie Episodic, and New Frontier categories. The full slate of works announced includes 82 feature-length films representing 28 countries, and 39 of 92 (42%) feature film directors are first-time feature filmmakers.
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Eddie Alcazar’s Animated Short THE VANDAL Starring Bill Duke Featured on The New Yorker’s Screening Room [Trailer]
The Vandal directed by Eddie Alcazar (screenshot via Youtube) The New Yorker Studios will release the animated short film “The Vandal” on Monday, December 13th on The New Yorker’s digital platforms. The film is a stunning technical feat, executive produced by Darren Aronofsky; directed by award-winning filmmaker Eddie Alcazar; starring Bill Duke, Baadja-Lyne Odums, Harry Goaz, Maurice Compte, Thomas Hildreth, and Abbey Lee; and scored by Oscar-nominated filmmaker and composer Kris Bowers. “The Vandal” débuted in July at Cannes Directors’ Fortnight and had its North American première at the Telluride Film Festival.
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Lady Gaga to Receive Icon Award for House of Gucci at Palm Springs International Film Awards
House of Gucci Lady Gaga as Patrizia Reggiani, 2021. ph: Fabio Lovino / © MGM / Courtesy Everett Collection Lady Gaga will receive the Icon Award at the Palm Springs International Film Awards for her performance in House of Gucci. The Film Awards will take place in-person on January 6, 2022 at the Palm Springs Convention Center, with the festival running through January 17, 2022.
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MUNICH – THE EDGE OF WAR Trailer. Jeremy Irons, George McKay Star in Netflix British WWII Spy Drama
Munich – The Edge of War. George MacKay as Hugh Legat, in Munich – The Edge of War. Cr. Courtesy of Netflix © 2021 Netflix released the official trailer for Munich – The Edge of War, the British WWII drama starring George MacKay, Jannis Niewöhner and Academy Award® winner Jeremy Irons. Set in 1938, a British civil servant and a German diplomat cross paths in Munich and conspire to prevent war in Europe. Directed by Christian Schwochow, Munich – The Edge of War opens in select theaters on December 31, 2021 and on Netflix on January 21, 2022
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2022 Slamdance Film Festival Announces Lineup – 28 Features, 79 Shorts, and 7 Episodes
Actual People directed by Kit Zauhar Slamdance Film Festival announced the full lineup of 28 features, 79 shorts, and 7 episodes for its 28th edition hybrid festival, which returns to its original home in Park City, Utah for its physical festival January 20-23, 2022, bridged with an accessible and robust program of virtual screenings, running January 20-30, 2022.
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AFI Announces Top 10 Movies of 2021 + Special Awards for BELFAST and SUMMER OF SOUL
AFI Top 10 Movies of 2021, Special Award for Belfast and Summer of Soul AFI announced the 2021 honorees – 10 outstanding films and 10 outstanding TV programs deemed culturally and artistically representative of this year’s most significant achievements in the art of the moving image. Belfast and Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) were honored in a category for “Special Awards,” designated for works of excellence that fall outside of the Institute’s criteria of American film and television.
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Henry Vallejo’s Minimalist Film ‘Powerful Chief’ is Peru’s Oscar Entry [Trailer]
Powerful Chief (Manco Cápac) directed by Henry Vallejo Henry Vallejo’s film Powerful Chief (Manco Cápac) is Peru’s official Oscar entry for Best International Feature Film at the 94th Academy Awards taking place on March 27, 2022 at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.
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Daniels’ EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE to Open 2022 SXSW Film Festival
Everything Everywhere All At Once directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (A24) South by Southwest® (SXSW®) Film Festival will open with the world premiere of Everything Everywhere All At Once at the upcoming 29th edition, on March 11, 2022 in Austin, Texas. Directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, collectively known as Daniels, the film is a hilarious and big-hearted sci-fi action adventure about an exhausted Chinese American woman (Michelle Yeoh) who can’t seem to finish her taxes.
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IFC Films to Release NITRAM, Australian Drama Starring Cannes Best Actor Caleb Landry Jones
Nitram starring Caleb Landry Jones IFC Films will release Justin Kurzel’s award winning film Nitram (True History of the Kelly Gang, Snowtown Murders Macbeth) which premiered in competition at the 2021 Cannes International Film Festival to outstanding critical reception.
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‘The Harder They Fall,’ ‘Passing,’ ‘Belfast’ Among African American Film Critics Top 10 Films of 2021
The Harder They Fall starring Regina King and Idris Elba The Harder They Fall directed by Jeymes Samuel and starring Idris Elba, Jonathan Majors, Regina King, Zazie Beetz along with LaKeith Stanfield lead the African American Film Critics Association’s annual list of the top 10 films of the year. Other films on the list include King Richard, Respect, The Tragedy of Macbeth, Passing and Belfast.
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Dionne Warwick Documentary Headlines 33rd Palm Springs International Film Festival Line-Up
Dionne Warwick: Don’t Make Me Over (Wooley Entertainment) The 33rd annual Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF) will open with the screening of Dionne Warwick: Don’t Make Me Over, directed by Dave Wooley and David Heilbroner, on Friday, January 7, with both directors and Dionne Warwick in attendance. The festival will close with The Duke, directed by the late filmmaker Roger Michell on Sunday, January 16. The festival will screen 129 films from 70 countries, including 32 premieres (4 World, 7 North American, 2 International and 19 U.S.) from January 6-17, 2022. The line-up includes Talking Pictures, International Feature Film Oscar® Submissions, New Voices New Visions, Modern Masters, Queer Cinema, Cine Latino, True Stories, World Cinema Now, and more.