Thomasin McKenzie and Zoë Kravitz will star in the psychological horror film Self-Portrait which Mona Fastvold will direct from a script she co-wrote with Brady Corbet (VOX LUX). The film is based on Rachel Lyon’s acclaimed debut novel Self-Portrait with Boy (Scribner).
Icarus Films will release Users, the most recent film by acclaimed director and recipient of the MacArthur Genius Award Natalia Almada. Winner of the Documentary Director Award at the Sundance Film Festival—a second win for Almada in the same category after her 2009 documentary El General—Users opens Friday, June 9 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) in New York City, and on Friday, June 16 at the Laemmle Glendale in Los Angeles, before expanding to other cities in North America.
Dark Sky Films releases The Attachment Diaries, an Argentinian psycho-erotic thriller set around two troubled women who find their lives intertwined when they embark on a vicious crusade of revenge.
NewFest, home to the celebrated LGBTQ+ film festival, announced the full lineup for their third annual NewFest Pride Summer Film Series. The event kicks off LGBTQ+ Pride Month from June 1 – 5, 2023 in New York, and will feature a mix of exclusive in-person premieres/panels, virtual screenings, and social events.
The 22nd San Francisco Documentary Film Festival (SF DocFest) will be held June 1 – 11, 2023; and screen 39 features and 47 shorts. The festival opens with Christine Yoo’s 26.2 To Life and Fantastic Negrito: Have You Lost Your Mind Yet? directed by Yvan Iturriaga, Francisco Nuñez Capriles.
Ellie Foumbi’s Our Father, the Devil won the jury award for Best Narrative Feature and Bradford Thomason and Brett Whitcomb’s Butterfly in the Sky won the jury award for Best Documentary Feature at the 2023 San Luis Obispo International Film Festival.
Netflix revealed the official trailer for Arnold, a three part documentary series chronicling Arnold Schwarzenegger’s journey from the countryside of Austria to the highest echelons of the American dream.
Searchlight Pictures revealed the official trailer for Flamin’ Hot, the comedy drama film directed by actress Eva Longoria, and based on the memoir A Boy, a Burrito and a Cookie: From Janitor to Executive by Richard Montañez, the former janitor who claimed to have invented “Flamin’ Hot Cheetos”.
Saban Films revealed the official trailer for The Secret Kingdom, the fantasy adventure film starring Sam Everingham, Alyla Browne, Alice Parkinson, Chris Gabardi, Darius Williams, and Beth Champion.
Ballin Abroad, a documentary that follows the journeys of five American basketball players playing in the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) and Euro-Leagues, is set for a Special Community Screening at the North Carolina Black Film Festival.
Shia LaBeouf stars as priest, Padre Pio struggling with his faith in the drama Padre Pio directed by acclaimed filmmaker Abel Ferrara. Padre Pio was a real-life Italian priest, later venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church.
The award-winning MTV Documentary Film Afghan Dreamers directed by David Greenwald, and executive produced by Sheila Nevins along with Ellen Goosenberg Kent, will launch on Paramount+ streaming service on Tuesday, May 23rd.