
Gravitas Ventures released the official trailer for The Shuroo Process, the indie comedy drama directed by Emrhys Cooper opening in theaters and on demand on November 24, 2021.

Gravitas Ventures released the official trailer for The Shuroo Process, the indie comedy drama directed by Emrhys Cooper opening in theaters and on demand on November 24, 2021.

The Romanian drama Uppercase Print by Radu Jude – winner of the 2021 Golden Bear for Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn – will open at the Metrograph in NYC on November 10, and at Laemmle Royal in LA on November 19. The film tells the true story of high school student Mugur Călinescu who was arrested in the early 1980s by Romania’s secret police agency for graffiti criticizing the regime of communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. Radu Jude also directed critically acclaimed Aferim! and “I Do Not Care If We Go Down In History As Barbarians.”

Vertical released the official trailer for Heart of Champions, the sports drama film starring Michael Shannon, Alexander Ludwig, Charles Melton, Alex MacNicoll, Ash Santos with Lilly Krug and David James Elliott. Directed by Michael Mailer, Heart of Champions opens in select theaters on October 29th.

The 30th Philadelphia Film Festival will showcase more than 130 feature-length and short films, opening on Wednesday, October 20 with Belfast starring Dame Judi Dench and Jamie Dornan. The semi-autobiographical film, written and directed by Sir Kenneth Branagh, tells the story of the life of a working-class family and their young son’s childhood during the tumult of the late 1960s in the Northern Ireland capital.

After hosting part one of their 2021 festival virtually this past February, Final Girls Berlin Film Festival convenes in the flesh once more in Berlin for a second part of the 6th edition to run from October 29th-31st, 2021.

The Fourth Annual New York Baltic Film Festival (NYBFF) presented by Scandinavia House: The Nordic Center in America returns in 2021 as a hybrid festival with both in-person and virtual screenings on November 3-14. This year, the festival will feature eleven feature films and one TV series with three International premieres, three North American premieres and one U.S. premiere, two New York premieres, and two East Coast premieres. Filmmakers will be in attendance to participate in Q&As after the screenings.

The new official trailer debuted for No Future, the indie drama directed by Mark Smoot and Andrew Irvine that premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. The film starring Catherine Keener, Charlie Heaton, Rosa Salazar, Jackie Earle Haley, Austin Amelio, and Jefferson White opens nationwide on Friday, October 22nd, 2021.

Netflix released the official trailer for Found, Amanda Lipitz’s documentary that follows the story of three American teenage girls, adopted from China, who discover they are blood-related cousins. Found premieres on Netflix October 20th, 2021.

HBO Max released the official trailer for their new original two-part documentary series, What Happened, Brittany Murphy?, debuting on Thursday, October 14 on HBO Max. Directed by Cynthia Hill (Private Violence), the documentary is described as an intimate, in-depth character portrait of actress Brittany Murphy, going beyond the headlines to explore the mysterious circumstances surrounding her tragic death at 32 years old.

Kurosawa Kiyoshi’s wartime period drama Wife of a Spy (Japan) was the biggest winner of the night at the 15th Asian Film Awards (AFA15) taking the Best Film Award, the Best Actress Award (Aoi Yu) and the Best Costume Design Award (Koketsu Haruki).

The trailer debuted for La Casa de Mama Icha (The House of Mama Icha), the debut feature documentary from Colombian director and cinematographer Óscar Molina debuting as part of POV’s 34th season, on Monday, October 18, 2021 on PBS and at pov.org.

“Borrelia Borealis”, a film by writer/director/actress Kathryne Isabelle Easton, which is loosely based on her real-life experience with Lyme, will have it’s world premiere at the 2021 LaFemme International Film Festival, running October 14-17 held both virtually and at the Regal Cinema at LA Live.