The 49th Cleveland International Film Festival (CIFF) running March 27 – April 5, 2025, has revealed the year’s spotlight films, with For Worse, the directorial debut of actress Amy Landecker as Opening Night Film. The documentary Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore directed by Shoshannah Stern will screen as Centerpiece, and Love, Brooklyn directed by Amy Landecker as Closing Night Film.
Anora won Best Picture and Mikey Madison wins Best Actress in the International category of the 25th Vancouver Film Critics Circle (VFCC) awards.
The 17th ReelAbilities Film Festival: New York (RFFNY) celebrating the lives, stories, and artistic expressions of people with disabilities worldwide, returns April 3-9, 2025.
Samuel Goldwyn Films debuted the official trailer for William Tell, Nick Hamm’s resistance epic medieval action-drama film starring Claes Bang (The Square, Dracula), Connor Swindells (Barbie, Sex Education, Emma), Golshifteh Farahani (Paterson, Extraction), Jonah Hauer-King (The Little Mermaid, The Tattooist of Auschwitz), Ellie Bamber (Moss & Freud, Nocturnal Animals), Rafe Spall (Life of Pi, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, The Big Short) and Emily Beecham (The Interpreter, Little Joe), with Academy-Award winner Ben Kingsley and Academy-Award nominee Jonathan Pryce (The Two Popes, Game of Thrones, The Age of Innocence, The Wife).
Magnolia Pictures debuted the trailer Eric Larue, Michael Shannon’s directorial debut written by Brett Neveu and based on his 2002 play of the same name.
The 39th edition of BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival taking place March 19 – 30, 2025, unveiled its full program. BFI Flare is divided into three thematic program strands: Hearts, Bodies and Minds and presents 34 World Premieres (across features and shorts) with 56 features, 1 series and 81 shorts from 41 countries.
HBO debuted the official trailer for “Eyes On The Prize III: We Who Believe In Freedom Cannot Rest 1977-2015”, the six-part documentary series inspired by Henry Hampton’s 1987 documentary series.
Former Vice President Kamala Harris will be honored with the Chairman’s Award at the “56th NAACP Image Awards” airing live from the Pasadena Civic Auditorium on Saturday, February 22, on BET and CBS.
Greg Kwedar’s Sing Sing won Best Picture at 7th Annual Latino Entertainment Journalists Association (LEJA) Film Awards along with Best Actor for Colman Domingo, who won the same award last year for Rustin.
Josh Stewart (The Collector, Criminal Minds, The Punisher, The Dark Knight Rises) Judah Lewis (Demolition, The Babysitter, The Christmas Chronicles) Brecken Merrill (Yellowstone, This Is Us) star in the the thriller, mystery, drama movie Lifeline set for release by Dark Sky Films.
Directed by Mickey Keating, Vero Maynez, Colin Huerta and Ruby Vallejo star in the home invasion horror thriller movie Invader set for release by Doppelgänger Releasing.
Set amid the early COVID pandemic lockdown in January 2020, in An Unfinished Film, filmmaker Lou Ye (Suzhou River) and his film crew reunite near Wuhan, China to resume the shooting of a film halted ten years earlier.