Hong Sangsoo’s The Woman who Ran which made its world premiere last week in competition at the 70th Berlinale, where it won the Silver Bear for Best Director has been acquired by Cinema Guild for release in the U.S. It will mark the seventh film directed by Hong that Cinema Guild has released.
The 2020 Tribeca Film Festival, presented by AT&T, today unveiled its feature film lineup of 115 films from 124 filmmakers from across 33 different countries. The 2020 Tribeca Film Festival will run April 15-26.
Epic Pictures today dropped an outrageous new trailer for Butt Boy ahead of US release in theaters April 3rd and VOD April 14th.
The 2020 Sun Valley Film Festival (SVFF),announced its honorees – Amy Poehler, Winston Duke, Eliza Hittman and Druyan along with the film line-up for its ninth annual event, taking place March 18-22, 2020. The festival will open on March 18 with a special presentation of the documentary RUTH – Justice Ginsburg in Her Own Words with Oscar®-winning director and Sun Valley part-time resident, Freida Lee Mock attending, and close on March 22 with The Last Shift, director Andrew Cohn attending for Q&A following the screening.
The Green Knight, a fantasy re-telling of the medieval story of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, directed and adapted by David Lowery, will World Premiere at the 2020 South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival on Monday, March 16.
The Iranian film There Is No Evil by Mohammad Rasoulof won the top prize, the Golden Bear for Best Film at the Berlin International Film Festival. The film also won the Guild Film Prize. Director Mohammad Rasoulof is banned from leaving Iran and was unable to accept the Golden Bear in person.
Sweet Thing by Alexandre Rockwell won the Crystal Bear for the Best Film in Generation Kplus at 2020 Berlin International Film Festival. Los Lobos (The Wolves) by Samuel Kishi Leopo, Mexico snagged the Grand Prix of the International Jury.
Berln Film Festival announced the prize winners of the section Perspektive Deutsches Kino, with the Compass-Perspektive-Award for the best film going to Janna Ji Wonders for the film Walchensee Forever. The prize is endowed with 5,000 Euros, and as a trophy, the director received a real compass, which is intended to serve as symbolic orientation and show her the direction to take going into the future.
Our Lady of the Nile (Notre-Dame du Nil) by Atiq Rahimi was awarded the Crystal Bear for the Best Film in Generation 14plus at the 2020 Berlin International Film Festival. The Grand Prix of the International Jury in Generation 14plus for the Best Film, went to My Name Is Baghdad (Meu nome é Bagdá) by Caru Alves de Souza of Brazil.
Picturehouse released the trailer for the religious drama Fatima directed by Marco Pontecorvo (Pa-ra-da, “Game of Thrones”). Based on real-life events, the film tells the story of a 10-year-old shepherd and her two younger cousins in Fátima, Portugal, who report visions of the Virgin Mary, inspiring thousands of believers but angering officials of both the Catholic Church and the secularist government, who try to force them to recant their story.
Lynn Chen’s (“Saving Face”) I Will Make You Mine, part of the Surrogate Valentine trilogy, release the official trailer ahead of its world premiere at 2020 SXSW Film Festival. Following SXSW premiere, Gravitas Ventures will release the film on demand starting May 26.
IFC released the official trailer for The Painted Bird, the black-and-white holocaust drama directed by Václav Marhoul set during World War II. The film is an adaptation of Jerzy Kosiński’s novel of the same name and was selected to represent the Czech Republic in the Oscar race for Best International Feature Film. The Painted Bird starring Petr Kotlár, Udo Kier, Lech Dyblik, Jitka Čvančarová, Stellan Skarsgard, Harvey Keitel, Julian Sands, Aleksey Kravchenko, and Barry Pepper, opens in New York and Los Angeles on April 17, 2020