Belle, the animation film by the Japanese director Mamoru Hosoda will world premiere at the 74th Cannes Film Festival in the Cannes Premiere section. FollowingcWolf Childrenc(2012), The Boy and the Beast (2015), and Mirai (2018), it is the first official Selection for Mamoru Hosoda.
The short documentary film Junior directed by A.J. Wilhelm will play at the 2021 Maine International Film Festival. Featuring Jérôme “Junior” Simeon along with Ajayi Jackson, the film follows the acclaimed Haitian musician as he struggles to keep the beat of his passion alive.
Produced in official partnership with the 9/11 Memorial & Museum, National Geographic will premiere 9/11: One Day in America, a six-part documentary series which chronicles the events of that day – at times minute by minute – through gripping first-person narratives of the first responders and survivors who were there.
Locarno Film Festival announced the lineup for the 74th edition of the festival set to run August 4 through 14, 2021. The festival opens with Beckett directed by Ferdinando Cito Filomarino and starring John David Washington, Alicia Vikander, Boyd Holbrook, Vicky Krieps, along with Panos Koronis.
Amazon released the teaser video for My Name is Pauli Murray, the documentary on the lawyer, Black activist, feminist, poet who influenced both Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Thurgood Marshall.
The Archaeology Channel International Film Festival 2021 which took place June 23-27, featured many of the world’s best films on archaeology and cultural heritage, as well as in-person presentations by Jaime Bach, an anthropologist and archaeologist who played a key role in the search for Amelia Earhart.
Actress Jamie Lee Curtis will receive the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 78th Venice International Film Festival taking place September 1–11, 2021. The ceremony will take place before the out-of-competition screening of Halloween Kills, directed by David Gordon Green and starring Jamie Lee Curtis. Halloween Kills arrives in theaters on October 15.
The 2nd Big Bear Film Summit wrapped with the filmmaker awards ceremony at Big Bear Bar, with Lane Michael Stanley’s Addict Named Hal taking home the jury prize for Best Narrative Feature Film and the Chris Hite and Dennis Ford’s Firestorm ’77: The True Story of the Honda Canyon Fire won the Best Documentary Feature Film award.
The 49th edition of the Dance on Camera Festival presented by Dance Films Association and Film at Lincoln Center runs July 16-18, 2021. The festival makes a long-awaited return to in-person events at the Walter Reade Theater at Film at Lincoln Center along with virtual program.
Disney+ released the official trailer for “Playing with Sharks” the upcoming documentary on renowned shark expert Valerie Taylor. A true pioneer in both underwater filmmaking and shark research, Valerie Taylor is a living legend and icon in the underwater world whose life’s work has become the basis for much of what we know about sharks today.
The official selection of the 55th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, which takes place from August 20 to 28, 2021, features 32 premieres. The festival opens with Zátopek, David Ondříček’s highly anticipated drama about four-time Olympic gold medalist, the runner Emil Zátopek, who is widely regarded as the most popular athlete in Czech Republic’s history.
The acclaimed Tunisian horror thriller Dachra directed by Abdelhamid Bouchnak opens in U.S. cinemas on Friday, July 9th, 2021. Described as grisly, frightening, and stuffed with howling thrills, the horror film stars stars Yasmine Dimassi, Aziz Jbali, Bilel Slatnia, Hela Ayed, Hedi Majri, Rahri Rahali.