Taming the Garden

  • TAMING THE GARDEN Trailer: Georgian Environmental Documentary by Salomé Jashi Opens in US

    Taming the Garden official trailer and release date
    Taming the Garden directed by Salomé Jashi

    Big World Pictures will release Taming the Garden, the Georgian documentary of how a powerful man indulges in an unusual hobby by having century-old trees uprooted in communities along the Georgian coast and transplanted to his private garden.

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  • Rooftop Films Summer Series Announces 2021 Feature Film Slate

    Rooftop Films Summer Series with an Evening of Short Films at Green-Wood Cemetery
    Rooftop Films Summer Series at Green-Wood Cemetery

    Rooftop Films Summer Series returns with more than 40 outdoor screenings featuring new independent feature films, short film programs, from June 17th through mid-September. Keeping with a 25-year long tradition, the Summer Series will open with a collection of new short films on Thursday, June 17th, at Green-Wood Cemetery.

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  • 10th Sun Valley Film Festival Announces Lineup + Honors for Gal Gadot, Ethan Hawke and Shaka King1

    Gal Gadot, Ethan Hawke and Shaka King to be honored at 10th Sun Valley Film Festival
    (l to r) Gal Gadot, Ethan Hawke and Shaka King to be honored at 10th Sun Valley Film Festival

    The 2021 Sun Valley Film Festival (SVFF) announced the film lineup for its 10th annual event, SVFF Streaming, an all-virtual festival taking place April 14-18. SVFF celebrates the art of storytelling with a curated slate of films, moderated Q&As featuring emerging voices and inspiring visionaries, Sun Valley Screenwriters Lab, Future Filmmakers Forum and the return of the Ford Producers Grant with its $25,000 grand prize.

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  • Amalia Ulman’s ‘El Planeta’ will Kick off 50th New Directors/New Films Lineup + Retrospective

    Ale Ulman and Amalia Ulman in El Planeta by Amalia Ulman.
    Ale Ulman and Amalia Ulman in El Planeta by Amalia Ulman. | photo by Carlos Rigo Bellver.

    The Museum of Modern Art and Film at Lincoln Center announced the 50th anniversary edition of New Directors/New Films (ND/NF), available April 28 – May 8 via virtual cinema, with in-person screenings extending through May 13 at FLC. This year’s festival will introduce 27 features and 11 shorts to audiences nationwide in the MoMA and FLC virtual cinemas, and to New Yorkers at Film at Lincoln Center.

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  • Berlin Film Festival 2021 Reveals Berlinale Forum and Forum Expanded Lineup

    Aurielle Akerele in The Inheritance
    Aurielle Akerele in The Inheritance

    17 films makes up the 51st Berlinale Forum program and the Forum Expanded film selection consists of four short film selections, one medium-length film and two feature-length films, with a total of 18 films to be shown in March at the 2021 Berlin International Film Festival. Eight installations will also be shown in June.

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  • 2021 Sundance Film Festival Announces Lineup

    In The Same Breath by Nanfu Wang
    A still from In The Same Breath by Nanfu Wang, an official selection of the Premieres section at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute.

    Sundance announced today the independent films selected for Feature Film, Short Film, Indie Series and New Frontier categories for the 2021 Sundance Film Festival. The Festival will take place digitally via a feature-rich, Sundance-built online platform and in person on Satellite Screens across the country (public health permitting) from January 28-February 3, 2021.

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