ARRAY Releasing debuted the official trailer for the 4K restoration of Ethiopian filmmaker Haile Gerima’s groundbreaking 1993 film, Sankofa. The film will be re-released by ARRAY on September 24, 2021 in the United States, Canada, UK, Australia, and New Zealand on Netflix.
NEON released the official teaser trailer for The Worst Person in The World, the Norwegian dark comedy-drama film directed by Joachim Trier. The film, the finale in Joachim Trier’s Oslo Trilogy, after Reprise and Oslo, 31 August, stars Renate Reinsve as a 30-year-old woman in the midst of an existential crisis as she navigates between career and romantic choices.
Beans, the coming-of-age indie drama directed by Mohawk filmmaker Tracey Deer and starring Kiawentiio, a young Mohawk from the Akwesasne community will open in select theaters +and on demand on November 5th.
The Brooklyn Horror Film Festival will once again hold an in-person festival for their sixth edition, with screenings for the 2021 fest to take place in North Brooklyn at Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg, Williamsburg Cinemas, and Stuart Cinema from October 14-21.
Searchlight Pictures released the official teaser trailer for Nightmare Alley, the thriller film directed by Guillermo del Toro, based on the 1946 novel of the same name William Lindsay Gresham.
Belfast, directed by Kenneth Branagh won the People’s Choice Award, the top prize at the 46th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival. The TIFF 2021 People’s Choice Documentary Award went to The Rescue, directed by E. Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin; and the TIFF 2021 People’s Choice Midnight Madness Award winner is Titane, directed by Julia Ducournau.
Toronto International Film Festival, alongside the International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI) and the Network for the Promotion of Asia Pacific Cinema (FIPRESCI), announced the 2021 TIFF award winners.
The 10th annual Montclair Film Festival (MFF) taking place October 21-30, 2021 in Montclair, NJ will open on Thursday, October 21 with Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch at The Wellmont Theater. In his new film The French Dispatch, Wes Anderson has assembled an all-star cast (including Benicio Del Toro, Frances McDormand, Adrien Brody, Timothée Chalamet, Edward Norton, Tilda Swinton, Jeffrey Wright, Owen Wilson and many more) created a love letter to journalists, following the exploits of a band of writers, editors, and essayists working to publish The French Dispatch, a fictional twentieth century magazine, published in a fictional French city.
Netflix released the official trailer for Fever Dream (Distancia de rescate), the disturbing chilling drama film directed by award-winning Peruvian filmmaker Claudia Llosa, from a screenplay co-written with renowned Argentine author Samanta Schweblin based on her novel of the same name.
Ava DuVernay’s ARRAY Releasing has partnered with celebrated Ethiopian filmmaker Haile Gerima for a 4K restoration of his groundbreaking 1993 film, Sankofa. The transformative film about the untold history of Black resistance, developed from 20 years of research into the trans-Atlantic trade of enslaved African people, will be re-released by ARRAY on September 24, 2021 in the United States, Canada, UK, Australia, and New Zealand on Netflix.
The 2021 Double Exposure presents 12 investigative feature films and a selection of more than 15 shorts for its seventh season, taking place as a hybrid event, October 13-17.
Following its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, A24 released the new official trailer for The Humans, written and directed by Stephen Karam, adapted from his own Tony Award®-winning play.