The documentary film, The Story Won’t Die, which demonstrates the resilience of exiled Syrian artist-refugees who process their pain and circumstances through music, painting, dancing and other mediums will premiere at the 2021 AFI Docs Film Festival
Yellow Veil Pictures acquired Mattie Do’s celebrated Laos time travel feature The Long Walk and is planning an early 2022 release. The film world premiered at the 76th Venice International Film Festival in the Giornate degli Autori section and later went on to screen at the Toronto International Film Festival in the Contemporary World Cinema program, Fantastic Fest and Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival.
Quiver released the official redband trailer for the hilarious comedy film The Exchange, starring Ed Oxenbould, Avan Jogia, Justin Hartley, Jennifer Irwin, Paul Braunstein, and Jayli Wolf. Directed by Dan Mazer, the film opens in theaters, on demand and digital on July 30, 2021.
Showtime will air UFO, a four-part docu-series executive produced by J.J. Abrams, exploring our fascination with unidentified flying objects, and what clandestine influence the American government, lucrative private companies and the military may have in shielding the truth behind extraterrestrial phenomena to further their own agendas.
HBO released the official teaser trailer for 100 Foot Wave documentary series premiering on July 18. Directed and executive produced by award-winning filmmaker Chris Smith, the six-part HBO Sports Documentary series 100 Foot Wave intimately captures the decade-long odyssey of surfing pioneer Garrett McNamara, who, after visiting Nazaré, Portugal in hopes of conquering a 100-foot wave, pushed the sport to ever-greater heights and alongside locals helped transform the small fishing village into the world’s preeminent big-wave surfing destination.
Director, screenwriter, and actor John Landis will receive the Pardo d’onore Manor award at the Locarno Film Festival. Landis will also join a panel discussion with the audience, while Locarno74 will feature screenings of three landmark titles from his career: National Lampoon’s Animal House (1978), Trading Places (1983) and Innocent Blood (1992).
Mr Bachmann and his Class (Herr Bachmann und seine Klasse) by Maria Speth won the Berlinale Competition Audience Award at Summer Special edition of the 71st Berlin International Film Festival. In the German film, a charismatic teacher helps his students, who all come from different countries originally, with the key to feeling at home in Germany and becoming citizens of the world.
Neon released the trailer for the drama film Pig starring Nicolas Cage as a truffle forager whose beloved truffle-finding pig gets kidnapped. Written and directed by Michael Sarnoski, the film open in theaters on July 16, 2021.
Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) returns August 5-22, opening with the Australian premiere of Leah Purcell’s The Drover’s Wife The Legend Of Molly Johnson. A vivid reckoning with Australia’s colonial history, the revisionist outback western speaks emphatically to the realities, both past and present, of racial injustice – told through the lens of an Indigenous woman. The film completes a multi-format trilogy based on Henry Lawson’s 1892 short story, which began with Purcell’s award-winning play and subsequent novel The Drover’s Wife.
Abramorama released the trailer for the documentary The Price of Freedom, that takes a look at the gun violence epidemic in America and the role the National Rifle Association. Directed by Judd Ehrlich, the film had its world premiere at Tribeca Film Festival and will open in in theaters on July 7.
RLJE Films released the trailer for Great White, the horror film about a killer shark set off the coast of Australia, starring Katrina Bowden, Aaron Jakubenko, Kimie Tsukakoshi, Tim Kano and Te Kohe Tuhaka. Directed by Martin Wilson, the film opens in theaters, on demand and digital on July 16, 2021
As a way of embodying its commitment to the environment, the 74th edition of the Cannes Film Festival has chosen a selection of films on the environment in its Cinema for the climate special section.