The Athena Film Festival (AFF) at Barnard College announced honorees, additional films; and the 2020 winners and finalists of the Athena List for the 10th anniversary of the festival taking place from Thursday, February 27, through Sunday, March 1, at Barnard College in New York City.
Roadside Attractions release the trailer for The Secret: Dare to Dream starring Katie Holmes and Josh Lucas which opens in theaters on April 17th, 2020. Directed by Andy Tennant, the film also stars Celia Weston and Jerry O’Connell.
The new trailer dropped this week for the weird French comedy Deerskin (Le Daim) from Quentin Dupieux (Rubber, Wrong, Wrong Cops) which opened the 2019 Directors’ Fortnight, the independent sidebar running parallel to the Cannes Film Festival. The film stars Academy Award-winner Jean Dujardin as a man so obsessed with his designer deerskin jacket that it causes him to blow his life savings and turn to crime. Deerskin which also starts Adèle Haenel, Albert Delpy, Coralie Russier, Laurent Nicolas, and Pierre Gommé will open in theaters on March 20th, 2020.
Gravitas Ventures announced today the theatrical and VOD release date of Friday, March 20 for Amber McGinnis’ award-winning film International Falls. The dark comedy will wrap up a successful year-long film festival run with appearances in a trio of film festivals around the country, and in France at the 42nd International Women’s Film Festival.
This Spring, Ella Fitzgerald: Just One Of Those Things, directed by the award-winning Leslie Woodhead along with producer Reggie Nadelson will be released in theaters by Eagle Rock Entertainment. The film will be screened in select cinemas across the U.S, beginning April 3.
The Hong Kong International Film Festival Society today announced the postponement of the 44th Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF44) and the 18th Hong Kong – Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF18) in response to concerns over the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.
A24 released the brand new teaser trailer for The Green Knight, David Lowery’s epic take on the classic Arthurian legend, starring Dev Patel as Sir Gawain along with Alicia Vikander, Joel Edgerton, Barry Keoghan, and Ralph Ineson. The Green Knight opens in theatres on May 29, 2020.
Finding their voice – together.
Dark Sky Films released the trailer for The Dark Red, a sophisticated, supernatural revenge thriller with a killer cast including April Billingsley (AMC’s The Walking Dead, Last Vegas), Kelsey Scott (How to Get Away with Murder), Conal Byrne (The Vault, The Reconstruction of William Zero), Rhoda Griffis (Parental Guidance, The Blind Side), John Curran (Captain America: Civil War, The Conspirator), Jill Jane Clements (TV’s Bloodline, TV’s Outcast) . Written and directed by Dan Bush, The Dark Red will open in theaters on March 6th.
Magnolia Pictures will release Two Of Us (Deux), Filippo Meneghetti’s deeply moving French drama about the love between two older women starring Barbara Sukowa and Martine Chevallier in the US. Two Of Us which world premiered at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival, will open in New York on Friday, April 10 with a national release to follow.
The South Korean film Parasite made history, becoming the first non-English film to win the Oscar for best picture at the 92nd Academy Awards. Parasite also won the award for International Feature Film (previously know as Foreign Film), Writing (Original Screenplay) and Director for Bong Joon Ho.
Bleecker Street released the official trailer for The Roads Not Taken, starring Javier Bardem and Elle Fanning which is set to world premier in competition at the 2020 Berlin Film Festival.