Academy Award-winning director Laura Poitras will be honored with the Retrospective and Top 10 programs at the 35th edition of the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam taking place in person from November 9 to 20, 2022. The festival will host two curated focus programs, Around Masculinity and Playing Reality, in addition to the IDFA DocLab theme of Nervous Systems – IDFA’s new media section of in-person digital and XR programming.
Zeitgeist Films will release a brand new 4K remastering of Tales From The Gimli Hospital Redux by Guy Maddin, which had its world premiere at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). The new 4K digital remaster was supervised by Guy Maddin using original printing elements provided by the TIFF Cinematheque Library and includes the replacement of a long lost scene.
Ahead of its world premiere at Fantastic Fest later this month, RLJE Films acquired the horror/sci-fi film, Kids vs. Aliens, and is expected to release the film in theaters, on demand and digital in early 2023 with a Shudder release to follow later in the year.
In the aftermath of the Supreme Court overturning Roe versus Wade, the timely documentary Battleground is a deep dive into the intersection of abortion and politics in America, following three women who lead anti-abortion organizations.
Florencia Krochik’s The Rest of Us, a feature documentary about DACA kids shot over a decade, won Best Picture at the 13th DTLA Film Festival. Other award winners included director Martin Torrez’ “The Great American Low Rider Tradition,” a feature documentary about the Lowrider culture of East Los Angeles, which took the Audience Favorite Award, and Sophie Galibert, named Best Director for “Cherry,” a narrative dramedy that tackles the hot-button topic of abortion.
The Iranian thriller World War III directed by Houman Seyyedi has been selected as Iran’s entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 95th Academy Awards.
Indie Memphis Film Festival added more films to its 2022 slate including this year’s Centerpiece Presentation, Elegance Bratton’s The Inspection, fresh from its World Premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. The film stars Jeremy Pope in a breakout performance as a gay black Marine who has been cast out by his mother (Gabrielle Union). This year marks the 25th Anniversary of the Indie Memphis Film Festival, and will run from October 19th through 24th.
Blonde, based on the book of the same name by Joyce Carol Oates and starring Ana de Armas as Marilyn Monroe is the surprise film of the 70th San Sebastian Festival. The screening of the film will be attended by Ana de Armas and director, Andrew Dominik.
Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans won the People’s Choice Award at the 47th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival. Weird: The Al Yankovic Story directed by Eric Appel won the People’s Choice Midnight Madness Award and Black Ice directed by Hubert Davis won the People’s Choice Documentary Award.
José Calcina stars in Utama as Virginio, and Luisa Quispe as his wife Sisa, an elderly Quechua couple, living the same daily routine in the Bolivian highlands, when a long drought threatens their entire way of life.
Andrea Riseborough, Demi Moore, Harry Melling, and Karl Glusman star in Please Baby Please, the queer thriller set in 1950s Manhattan.
The 2022 Hamptons International Festival (HIFF) unveiled the full slate of films including the Closing Night presentation of the New York premiere of SR., directed by Chris Smith, and the Centerpiece screening of Sarah Polley’s Women Talking. The 30th edition of the festival will feature a lineup of films that are 54% female-directed and represent 34 countries from around the world.