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.
Edward Berger’s Conclave won the top prize of Best Film at the 2025 EE BAFTA Film Awards along with Outstanding British Film, Adapted Screenplay and Editing.
Anora written by Sean Baker won the award for Original Screenplay and Nickel Boys written by RaMell Ross and Joslyn Barnes won for Adapted Screenplay in the film category at the 2025 Writers Guild Awards (77th Annual) held at concurrent ceremonies in New York and Los Angeles. Jim Henson: Idea Man written by Mark Monroe won for Documentary Screenplay.
The 40th Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF) announced the award-winning films with Out of Plain Sight directed by Daniel Straub, Rosanna Xia winning the Audience Choice Award.
Co-directed by documentarian Eryk Rocha and first-time director Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha, the immersive Brazilian documentary The Falling Sky (A Queda do Céu), will be released in the US via KimStim.
Ahead of the world premiere at Big Sky Documentary Film Festival on February 16th and screening at the Slamdance Film Festival in Los Angeles on February 23rd and 24th, here is the first official trailer for Stolen Kingdom, director Joshua Bailey’s documentary feature debut.