The seventh India Film Festival of Alberta (IFFA) will take place across the province – completely free for everyone to attend – from September 1-30, 2021 with in-person events in Edmonton (September 3-5), Calgary (September 10-12), Fort McMurray (September 18-19), and Sherwood Park (September 24 & 26).
Cinema Guild released the official trailer for the film Isabella, the latest addition to Argentine filmmaker Matías Piñeiro’s thrilling series on Shakespeare’s female characters.
Pablo Lorrain’s Princes Diana biopic Spencer starring Kristen Stewart as Princess Di will be released in theaters on November 5th, 2021.
New York Film Festival announced the films in the 2021 Revivals section showcasing works from renowned filmmakers that have been digitally remastered, restored, and preserved.
Greenwich Entertainment will release Israeli filmmaker Maya Sarfaty’s haunting documentary Love It Was Not in movie theaters starting Friday, November 12. The films looks at the impossible and tragic love story between Helena Citron, a young Jewish prisoner in Auschwitz, and the Austrian SS officer Franz Wunsch.
Vertical Entertainment released the official trailer for the coming-of-age dramedy film This Is The Year, executive produced by Selena Gomez. The film, the directorial debut of David Henrie, takes a contemporary spin on classic 1980s movies, the beloved genre of that era’s youth.
Jockey starring Clifton Collins Jr., Molly Parker, Moises Arias, Logan Cormier, and Colleen Hartnett will open in theaters in New York and Los Angeles on December 29, then expand throughout the country over the following weeks via Sony Pictures Classics.
Quiver released the trailer for post-apocalyptic action, thriller film The Survivalist starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers and John Malkovich opening in theaters and VOD on October 1.
NYC Epicenters 9/11 – 2021 1/2, a four-part documentary essay on New York City produced and directed by Spike Lee (HBO’s “4 Little Girls”, “When the Levees Broke”) debuts Sunday, August 22 on HBO.
Inferno rosso. Joe D’Amato sulla via dell’eccesso, a documentary by Manlio Gomarasca and Massimiliano Zanin, presented by Nicolas Winding Refn, about filmmaker Aristide Massaccesi known as Joe D’Amato, joins the line-up of Special Screenings at the 78th Venice International Film Festival of La Biennale di Venezia.
Three Special Screenings – two of them are documentaries that focus on the theme of architecture, along with a tribute to Italian photojournalists Pietro Coccia, complete the line-up of the 78th Venice International Film Festival (September 1 – 11, 2021).
IFC Films released the official trailer for The Nowhere Inn, the psychological thriller film starring Annie Clark, Carrie Brownstein and Dakota Johnson which premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. Directed by Bill Benz, the film opens in theaters on September 17th, 2021.