A Colony (Une colonie) by Geneviève Dulude-De Celles of Canada was awarded the Crystal Bear for the Best Film in Generation Kplus by the Children’s Jury at the 2019 Berlin International Film Festival. The Grand Prix of the Generation Kplus International Jury for the Best Feature Film went to A First Farewell (Di yi ci de li bie) by Wang Lina, People’s Republic of China.
The first trailer is released for the upcoming cosmic horror Starfish, featuring a dazzling lead performance from Virginia Gardner (Halloween 2018, Marvel’s The Runaways). The film begins its theatrical roadshow tour starting in NYC on March 13 with a rollout in other cities through late April, followed by the Digital/VOD release May 28.
Jordan Noel’s THIS WORLD ALONE won the top Hoka award for Best Narrative Feature, and Suzannah Herbert and Lauren Belfer’s WRESTLE won for Best Documentary Feature at the 2019 Oxford Film Festival.
The 2019 Tribeca Film Festival, presented by AT&T, will open with the world premiere of director Roger Ross Williams and HBO’s new documentary film The Apollo. Helmed by the Oscar and Emmy-winning Williams (Music by Prudence; Life, Animated), The Apollo chronicles the unique history and contemporary legacy of the New York City landmark, the Apollo Theater.
Writer/director Matthew Montgomery’s Devil’s Path follows two men who meet up in a popular wilderness park for a casual hookup. Winner of Best First Narrative Feature and Best Supporting Actor at FilmOut San Diego, Devil’s Path opens in Los Angeles on March 1, DVD and VOD on March 5.
The 2019 San Francisco International Film Festival will kick off with the World Premiere of Netflix’s new original series Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City, on Wednesday, April 10, 7:00 pm at the Castro Theatre. Showrunner, writer, and executive producer Lauren Morelli; director and executive producer Alan Poul; author and executive producer Armistead Maupin; and star and executive producer Laura Linney are expected to attend and participate in a post-screening Q&A.
The Brink is a startling new documentary directed and filmed by Alison Klayman (Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, Take Your Pills) that follows former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon as he takes his effort to spread extreme nationalism from the U.S. to the rest of the world. With unprecedented access, Klayman’s fly-on-the-wall historical document employs a vérité approach that aims to expose Bannon’s tactics, including his relationship with the media. The Brink received its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival and opens theatrically in New York at the IFC Center (and in Los Angeles) on Friday, March 29. A national expansion will follow.
The 2019 Las Vegas Film Festival is scheduled to take place April 28 through May 5, with the majority of the Festival taking place in venues around Downtown Las Vegas, and some events held at the Brenden Theatres and Palms Casino Resort, which has served as home to the Festival for the past two years. Additionally, Zappos has signed on as a presenting sponsor of the eight-day Festival.
The BFI London Film Festival today confirmed the dates for the Festival’s 63rd edition which will take place from October 2nd to 13th, 2019, led by Festival Director Tricia Tuttle in her second year leading the team after serving as Artistic Director in 2018.
The Wedding Guest, the globetrotting thriller from acclaimed director Michael Winterbottom is described as a breathless tour through the shadowy underworlds and hidden realms of Pakistan and India. The film starring Dev Patel, Radhika Apte and Jim Sarbh will open in theaters on Friday, March 1st, 2019 in New York and Los Angeles.
In a statement released today, the Berlin International Film Festival announced that due to technical difficulties encountered during post-production, Yi miao zhong (One Second) by Zhang Yimou unfortunately will not be presented on February 15 in the scope of the Competition section of the Berlinale. The competition will thus feature a total of 16 films vying for the coveted Bear awards.
Kasper Torsting’s In Love and War (I krig & kærlighed) was voted winner of the Audience Choice Award at the 2019 Santa Barbara International Film Festival. The film also won the Valhalla Award for Best Nordic Film. 1917: A Danish soldier fighting under the German regime fakes his own death to escape the horrors in the trenches and return to his wife and son-only to find that everything has changed.