Saban Films released the official trailer for Ida Red, the “propulsive, gripping, crime thriller” film starring Josh Hartnett, Sofia Hublitz, William Forsythe, Deborah Ann Woll, George Carroll, Mark Boone Junior, Beau Knapp, with Frank Grillo, and Melissa Leo. Directed by John Swab, Ida Red opens in theaters, on demand and digital on November 5, 2021.
Ahead of the NY premiere at the New York Film Festival, Netflix released the official trailer for Passing, the drama starring Ruth Negga and Tessa Thompson as two Black women who can “pass” as white during the Harlem Renaissance in late 1920s New York.
Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival will kick off its 30th edition with the Opening Night presentation of Samuel D. Pollard and Rex Miller’s Citizen Ashe, followed by the Centerpiece Selections of E. Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin’s The Rescue and CJ Hunt’s The Neutral Ground, with Julie Cohen and Betsy West’s Julia screening on Closing Night.
The 36th Annual Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival (FLIFF) will be a hybrid experience offering both in-theater and virtual film screenings of more than 100 film from November 4-21, 2021.
Vertical Entertainment released the official trailer for Vengeance Is Mine, the revenge action/thriller film starring Con O’Neill, Sarah Jane Potts, and Anton Saunders. Directed by Hadi Hajaig, the film opens in select theaters and on demand on October 8th, 2021.
International Documentary Film Festival (IDFA) announced the first films selected for its 34th edition: the Top 10 program curated by Guest of Honor Hito Steyerl, and a four-title program with the films of Artavazd Pelechian. Both directors will be in attendance at IDFA 2021, which runs November 17 to 28 in Amsterdam.
A2r released the first official trailer for The Tragedy of Macbeth, written and directed by Academy Award® winner Joel Coen and starring Academy Award® winners Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand.
ARRAY Releasing debuted the official trailer for the 4K restoration of Ethiopian filmmaker Haile Gerima’s groundbreaking 1993 film, Sankofa. The film will be re-released by ARRAY on September 24, 2021 in the United States, Canada, UK, Australia, and New Zealand on Netflix.
NEON released the official teaser trailer for The Worst Person in The World, the Norwegian dark comedy-drama film directed by Joachim Trier. The film, the finale in Joachim Trier’s Oslo Trilogy, after Reprise and Oslo, 31 August, stars Renate Reinsve as a 30-year-old woman in the midst of an existential crisis as she navigates between career and romantic choices.
Beans, the coming-of-age indie drama directed by Mohawk filmmaker Tracey Deer and starring Kiawentiio, a young Mohawk from the Akwesasne community will open in select theaters +and on demand on November 5th.
The Brooklyn Horror Film Festival will once again hold an in-person festival for their sixth edition, with screenings for the 2021 fest to take place in North Brooklyn at Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg, Williamsburg Cinemas, and Stuart Cinema from October 14-21.
Searchlight Pictures released the official teaser trailer for Nightmare Alley, the thriller film directed by Guillermo del Toro, based on the 1946 novel of the same name William Lindsay Gresham.