CineFAM Film Festival in Toronto, Canada, celebrates its 5th year October 23rd-24th, 2021 under the theme ”5 Years of Limitless Imagination.” CineFam Film Festival introduces audiences around the globe to bold and original stories by women and non-binary creators of colour.
IFC Films released the first look clip from Huda’s Salon, the “feminist thriller” film written and directed by Academy Award-Nominee Hany Abu-Assad (Paradise Now, Omar) and premiering at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival.
IFC Midnight shared a new clip from first-time filmmaker Ruth Paxton’s new film, A Banquet set to make its World Premiere at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival this Friday. The slow-burning psychological horror film starring Sienna Guillory, Jessica Alexander, Ruby Stokes and Lindsay Duncan CBE, explores the complicated bonds between three generations of mothers and daughters.
Calgary International Film Festival announced its exciting 2021 lineup of over 175 films set to screen both online and in-cinema in Downtown Calgary from September 23 to October 3, 2021.
Janet Jackson shared on her Instagram a first look of her two-night, four-hour documentary event, “Janet” set to premiere cross-network on Lifetime & A&E in January 2022.
Following its world premiere at Telluride Film Festival, A24 released the official trailer for C’mon, C’mon, Mike Mills’ deeply moving moving black and white film starring Academy Award winner Joaquin Phoenix as an artist left to take care of his precocious young nephew after his mother’s death.
Netflix has released the official trailer for A Cop Movie (Una película de policías), filmmaker Alonso Ruizpalacios’ genre-bending film which won the Silver Bear, Outstanding Artistic Contribution, 2021 Berlin International Film Festival.
Mill Valley Film Festival announced the lineup of 118 films – 65 features and 53 shorts, for the 44th edition of the festival headlined by Joe Wright’s Cyrano as opening night film, Mike Mills’ C’mon C’mon, starring Joaquin Phoenix as the Centerpiece film and Wes Anderson’s star-studded The French Dispatch as closing night film.
Netflix released the official trailer for The Guilty, the thriller film starring Jake Gyllenhaal along with Ethan Hawke, Riley Keough, Christina Vidal Mitchell, Eli Goree, Da’vine Joy Randolph, David Castañeda with Paul Dano and Peter Sarsgaard.
From September 21-26, 2021, the 42nd Aspen Filmfest will showcase top filmmaking from across the globe including films featuring Jessica Chastain, Jake Gyllenhaal, Benedict Cumberbatch, Claire Foy and more.
Italian director and screenwriter Paolo Sorrentino will give a masterclass and present his latest film The Hand of God at the 69th edition of the San Sebastian Festival. The author of The Great Beauty (La grande bellezza ) will talk about his latest film and its connections with the seventh art.
Academy Award-Winning writer and director Oliver Stone will receive the Santa Fe Independent Film Festival (SFiFF) Lifetime Achievement Award at the festival’s upcoming 13th edition. The Lifetime Achievement Award Ceremony will be followed by a screening of an Oliver Stone film.