Vengeance is Mine, All Others Pay Cash by Indonesian director Edwin was awarded the Pardo d’oro, Grand Prize of the Festival of the City of Locarno to the best film at the 74th edition of the Locarno Film Festival. Based on the novel by Indonesian writer Eka Kurniawan, the film starring Marthino Lio and Ladya Cheryl follows a fighter who fears nothing, but is driven by a secret: his impotence. When he crosses paths with a tough female fighter named Iteung, he falls head over heels in love.
Director Rachel Fleit’s follows actress Selma Blair as she reckons with the next chapter of her life after being diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis in the documentary film Introducing, Selma Blair.
The 29th edition of the Hamptons International Film Festival will open on Thursday, October 7, 2021, with the World Premiere of Academy Award-nominated director Matthew Heineman’s The First Wave, a documentary film spotlighting the everyday heroes inside one of the country’s hardest hit hospitals at the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic as they come together to fight one of the greatest threats the world has ever encountered.
Showtime released the trailer for the new documentary film Detainee 001, directed by Emmy®-winner Greg Barker (The Final Year, Sergio, Manhunt, Legion of Brothers). The film unpacks the mysteries surrounding the young American man, John Walker Lindh, found on the battlefield in Afghanistan alongside the people who were supposed to be his enemy. The story reveals how society views the “enemy from within” and the shifting allegiances during the war on terror.
Directed by award-winning filmmaker Matthew Berkowitz, Gravitas Ventures will release the psychological thriller film The Madness Inside Me in select theaters and on digital platforms on September 3, 2021.
Directed by Rachel Boynton (Big Men, Our Brand is Crisis), the documentary Civil War: (Or, Who Do We Think We Are), looks at how Americans tell the story of their Civil War and its legacy of slavery and racism. The documentary film will open in select theaters nationwide (including the IFC Center in NYC and Laemmle Santa Monica in LA) on Friday, September 17
San Sebastian Festival is defending its decision this week to honor actor Johnny Depp with the Donostia Award, the festival’s highest honorary award at the upcoming festival. The festival while reiterating its “commitment to fighting inequality, the abuse of power and violence against women”also emphasized the “the presumption of innocence” noting that “Johnny Depp has not been arrested, charged nor convicted of any form of assault or violence against any woman.”
Actor Benedict Cumberbatch will receive this year’s TIFF Tribute Actor Award at the 46th Toronto International Film Festival.
Italian director and screenwriter Paolo Sorrentino will receive the prestigious A Tribute to… Award at the 17th Zurich Film Festival. Sorrentino will receive the honorary award on Wednesday, September 29, at the Gala Premiere of his new autobiographical film The Hand of God. The festival will also screen a retrospective of Sorrentino’s work.
The fourth season of the award-winning POV Shorts series debuts on September 6, 2021 on PBS and streaming online at POV.org with 13 new short nonfiction films packed into seven unique episodes. POV Shorts was named the ‘Best Short Form Series’ at the 36th annual IDA Documentary Awards.
The 20th edition of Nest, San Sebastian Festival’s international competition for shorts by film students, has selected fourteen films from Argentina, Brazil, China, Croatia, Denmark, France, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom and United States.
Horrible Imaginings Film Festival revealed the second wave of their 2021 lineup featuring five more films and five more short film blocks.