Oscilloscope Laboratories debuted the official trailer for The Tale of King Crab (Re Granchio), the fiction feature debut from documentary filmmakers Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo Zoppis. The film starring Gabriele Silli, Maria Alexandra Lungu, Ercole Colnago, and Bruno di Giovanni had its World Premiere at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival.
The Currents section for the 59th New York Film Festival includes 15 features and 36 short films, representing 27 countries. The Opening Night selection is Maureen Fazendeiro and Miguel Gomes’s (Arabian Nights, NYFF53) The Tsugua Diaries, a beguiling pandemic-era tale about three housemates in lockdown—one of several films in the section responding to the current health crisis through varying lenses; others include Shengze Zhu’s A River Runs, Turns, Erases, Replaces, a meditation on urban spaces before and after the COVID outbreak, and Denis Côté’s Social Hygiene, an absurdist comedy in which characters exchange barbs from a humorous distance.
