Emmy® Award-winning director Salima Koroma (CNN Films’ Dreamland: The Burning of Black Wall Street) takes audiences on the rocket-like rise and sudden implosion of the once-ubiquitous mobile game show, HQ Trivia in the documentary Glitch: The Rise & Fall of HQ Trivia premiering on Sunday, March 5, 2023 at 9:00pm ET/PT on CNN.
Le spectre de Boko Haram by Cyrielle Raingou (Cameroon, France) wins the Tiger Award at the 52nd International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR). In her debut feature, Cyrielle Raingou follows a group of children as they carve out their own worlds amid the dangers of armed conflict. We meet the precocious Falta, studious and hardworking, eager to process her father’s death in a terrorist attack. Her classmate, Ibrahim, and his older brother Mohamad struggle with balancing their boyhood energy and a traumatic past that strays them from their eight and 11-year-old innocence.
The American Film Institute (AFI) announced the dates for AFI FEST 2023.
Hulu debuted the official trailer for Bruiser, an indie drama film starring Trevante Rhodes, Shamier Anderson, Jalyn Hall and Shinelle Azoroh.
Jake Gyllenhaal and Dar Salim star in The Covenant, the action-thriller film directed by Guy Ritchie. Also starring in the film are Antony Starr, Alexander Ludwig, Bobby Schofield, Emily Beecham, and Jonny Lee Miller
Roadside Attractions revealed the official trailer for My Happy Ending, the comedy based on the Israeli play, Sof Tov, starring Andie MacDowell, Miriam Margolyes, Sally Phillips, Rakhee Thakrar, Tom Cullen, Michell Greenidge, Tamsin Greig, and David Walliams.
Sony Pictures Classics will release Carmen, a complete reimagining of George Bizet’s opera and Prosper Mérimée’s novella of the same name, starring Melissa Barrera, Paul Mescal, Rossy de Palma, The D.O.C., Benedict Hardie, Richard Brancatisano, and Elsa Pataky.
Directed by Liu Jian, a professor at China Academy of Art’s School of Animation and Games, and produced by a team of teachers and students over a span of five years, the Chinese animated film Art College 1994 will world premiere in Competition section in the 73rd Berlinale.
Showtime revealed the official trailer for The 12th Victim, a four-part docuseries that sheds new light on the infamous 1958 Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate murder case, in which the teenage couple was charged and convicted of brutally killing 11 victims at random. Told through a stylistic blend of archival and recreated footage and countless film and television series inspired by the killings, The 12th Victim reexamines Fugate’s guilty verdict, who was 14 years old at the time of the killings, through a modern lens, questioning the media and judicial system’s treatment of her despite her self-proclaimed innocence.
South by Southwest® (SXSW®) Conference and Festivals announced the second wave of the 2023 Film & TV Festival Lineup, including all Visions, Global, 24 Beats, and Festival Favorites plus numerous additions to Headliners, TV Premieres, Narrative and Documentary Spotlight, and other sections. The Festival also announced that Janine Nabers and Donald Glover’s Swarm and Lee Sung Jin’s Beef will be the Opening and Closing Night TV premieres.
Roadside Attractions will release My Happy Ending, the comedy film starring Andie MacDowell as a famous actor who goes incognito to seek treatment for a medical issue. While at the hospital, she meets three unique and remarkable women — an aging rocker, a young mother, and a forever single retired schoolteacher. Together, they help her face adversity with humor and camaraderie while coaching her for the most challenging role she has ever played…herself.
Roadside Attractions revealed the official trailer for Moving On, a new comedy film starring Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin as estranged friends who reunite to seek revenge on widower of their recently deceased best friend. Also starring in the film are Malcom McDowell and Richard Roundtree.