Bianca Stigter’s ” Three Minutes – A Lengthening” narrated by Helena Bonham Carter is described as a haunting documentary essay that expands upon film’s place in history. Co-produced by Steve McQueen, the documentary world premieres at the 2021 Venice International Film Festival on September 4 and will receive its Canadian premiere at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival in mid-September.
The 59th New York Film Festival taking place September 24 – October 1, 2021 is partnering with local New York City arthouse theaters to bring NYFF59 films to new audiences.
The world premiere of The Legacy of elBulli (Las huellas de elBulli), a film about the restaurant run by Ferran Adrià, will open the Culinary Zinema section of the 69th San Sebastian International Film Festival. The section will close with Délicieux / Delicious, a period fiction situated amidst kitchen stoves. The food themed films showcased in the Culinary Zinema section will be accompanied by themed dinners.
Check out the official trailer for Belfast, Kenneth Branagh’s Irish coming-of-age drama making its world premiere this weekend at the 2021 Telluride Film Festival. Belfast is described as “the humorous, tender and intensely personal story of one boy’s childhood during the tumult of the late 1960s.”
Following the world premiere at the 2021 Telluride Film Festival this weekend, National Geographic Documentary Films and Greenwich Entertainment will release The Rescue, the latest film from award-winning directing duo E. Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin exclusively in theaters on October 8, 2021.
The 65th BFI London Film Festival announced the 8 films competing for the Best Film Award in the 2021 Official Competition selection.
Since 2018, the Zurich Film Festival’s “Hashtag” section shines a spotlight on a highly topical issue. The hashtag chosen for the 17th ZFF, #letSEXplore, is all about sex – uninhibited and in all its many forms.
Tribeca Fall Preview, a season-long series featuring film premieres, musical performances, and more, from Tribeca Enterprises, the organization behind the Tribeca Festival, will kick-off on September 22 with the premiere of the The Sopranos prequel film The Many Saints of Newark at the Beacon Theatre.
Definitely check out the official trailer for Stop and Go, the indie comedy film starring Whitney Call and Mallory Everton as two sisters braving a cross-country road trip to rescue their grandmother from a COVID outbreak at her nursing home.
Heaven: To the Land of Happiness directed by Im Sang-soo is the opening film for the 26th Busan International Film Festival which will be held from October 6 to 15, 2021.
Oaxacalifornia: The Return (Oaxacalifornia: El regreso), the fifth feature film by acclaimed English-born Mexican director Trisha Ziff (The Mexican Suitcase, The Man Who Saw Too Much), will have its U.S. premiere at the 2021 edition of the New York Latino Film Festival, taking place September 14 to 19. Additionally, the film will also be screening at the Milwaukee Film “Cinema Without Borders” series, the AFI Latin American Film Festival in Washington D.C., and the Portland Latino Film Festival.
Ahead of the film’s World Premiere at Telluride Film Festival today, the first clip debuted from Will Sharpe’s The Electrical Life of Louis Wain starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Claire Foy.