The Human Rights Watch Film Festival, now in its 32nd year, unveiled the lineup for its second full digital edition, available nationwide in the U.S. from May 19 through 27, 2021. The film festival will feature in-depth online discussions with filmmakers, film participants and Human Rights Watch researchers and advocates.
Global Digital Releasing will release Knots : A Forced Marriage Story, director Kate Brewer’s award-winning documentary film on forced marriages in the U.S. The film will be released via The Laemmle both theatrically and on their digital platform on May 7th followed by a wider digital release June 4th.
Director, actor, and screenwriter Roberto Benigni will be honored with the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement of the 78th Venice International Film Festival (September 1–11, 2021).
Here is the new trailer for the horror film Seance, directed by Simon Barrett and starring, Suki Waterhouse, Madisen Beaty, Ella-Rae Smith, Inanna Sarkis, Seamus Patterson, Marina Stephenson-Kerr. Seance will open in theaters, on demand and digital on May 21, 2021.
RLJE Films has released the official trailer for David Oyelowo’s directorial debut, the mystical adventure film The Water Man, also starring Oyelowo, along with Rosario Dawson, Lonnie Chavis, Amiah Miller, Alfred Molina, and Maria Bello. The film opens in theaters on May 7th.
Loira Limbal’s (Estilo Hip Hop) second feature documentary, Through the Night, premieres Monday, May 10, 2021 on PBS at 10 p.m. ET (check local listings) and at pov.org as part of the program’s 33rd season. The film will also be available to stream for free at pov.org until June 10, 2021.
Music Box Films will release The Perfect Candidate, a revealing look at the changing roles of women in Saudi Arabia from director Haifaa Al Mansour (Wadjda) in theaters.
“Nomadland” won the top prize of Best Picture along with Best Director for Chloé Zhao at the first ever Minnesota Film Critics Alliance Awards.
Dark Star Pictures released the trailer for Rodrigo Bellott’s LGBT drama film Tu Me Manques, Bolivia’s entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 92nd Academy Awards. Based on Bellott’s award-winning Bolivian play of the same name, the film centers on Jorge, a Bolivian man who travels to New York to confront Sebastian, his dead son’s boyfriend, after his death by suicide.
In commemoration of the 20th anniversary, The History Channel is remembering the fallen of the September 11 terrorist attacks and paying tribute to the first responders and survivors with four new powerful two-hour documentaries.
Focus Features released the trailer for Final Account, twelve years in the making, director Luke Holland’s compelling documentary profiling German veterans and their accounts of World War II opens in theaters on May 21, 2021.
The Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF) announced the award-winning films for the 36th edition with Jeff Harasimowicz’s “Alaskan Nets” winning the Audience Choice Award. Jeff Harasimowicz commented, “To say we are thrilled to win the audience choice award would be a vast understatement. To see this film resonate with audiences is a deeply humbling experience.”