
Heaven: To the Land of Happiness directed by Im Sang-soo is the opening film for the 26th Busan International Film Festival which will be held from October 6 to 15, 2021.

Heaven: To the Land of Happiness directed by Im Sang-soo is the opening film for the 26th Busan International Film Festival which will be held from October 6 to 15, 2021.

Oaxacalifornia: The Return (Oaxacalifornia: El regreso), the fifth feature film by acclaimed English-born Mexican director Trisha Ziff (The Mexican Suitcase, The Man Who Saw Too Much), will have its U.S. premiere at the 2021 edition of the New York Latino Film Festival, taking place September 14 to 19. Additionally, the film will also be screening at the Milwaukee Film “Cinema Without Borders” series, the AFI Latin American Film Festival in Washington D.C., and the Portland Latino Film Festival.

Ahead of the film’s World Premiere at Telluride Film Festival today, the first clip debuted from Will Sharpe’s The Electrical Life of Louis Wain starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Claire Foy.

The 2021 AFI Latin American Film Festival set for September 23 – October 13 at the historic AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center in Silver Spring, MD will open with Mexican director Alonso Ruizpalacios’ (Güeros, Museo) Berlin-debuted A Cop Movie, an immersive, on-the-job and behind-the-scenes look at the life of two Mexico City cops, which confirms Ruizpalacios’ genius for creating unexpected, genre-bending cinema and won the Berlinale’s Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution earlier this year.

IFC Films acquired Paul Solet’s crime drama Clean, starring Academy Award-winner Adrien Brody, who developed and produced the film through his production company, Fable House. Originally slated to bow at the canceled 2020 Tribeca Film Festival, Clean made its world premiere in the Spotlight section of this year’s Tribeca festival, and is set for release in 2022.

New York Latino Film Festival (NYLFF) will open this year’s 2021 edition with the 20th anniversary celebration of the film Raising Victor Vargas, featuring screening and cast reunion.

Cinematographer Ari Wegner will be honored with the TIFF Variety Artisan Award at this year’s 2021 TIFF Tribute Awards at the 46th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival. The award recognizes a distinguished creative who has excelled at their craft and made an outstanding contribution to cinema and entertainment.

Becoming Cousteau, the new documentary on legendary oceanographer Jacques Cousteau from director Liz Garbus (“The Farm: Angola, USA,” “What Happened, Miss Simone?”) will open in theaters on Friday, Oct. 22. Boasting never-before-seen footage, Becoming Cousteau will have its world premiere at the 2021 Telluride Film Festival.

Bleecker Street dropped the official trailer for Mass, the indie drama film starring Reed Birney, Ann Dowd, Jason Isaacs, Martha Plimpton that world premiered at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival.