Krakow Film Festival announced that Finnish documentary filmmaker Jarmo Jääskeläinen died on 2 January 2022. He was 84 years old. He was to receive the most valuable statuette Dragon of Dragons of the Krakow Film Festival in May for his contribution to global documentary cinema.
Here is the new trailer for the Road to Perth, the Australian road-trip movie starring Tommy O’Brien, Hannah Lehmann, Rachel Scott, Ellen Grimshaw, and Katrina Schmidt, which opens theatrically in limited release on January 7.
Lifetime and A&E shared the new extended trailer for JANET, the highly-anticipated Janet Jackson documentary which will debut on both networks on January 28, 2022.
The Internet Film Critics Society (IFCS) announced their winners of the best film honors of 2021, awarding the honor of Best Drama to C’mon C’mon by Mike Mills, Best Comedy to Licorice Pizza by Paul Thomas Anderson and Best Horror or Science Fiction for Titane by Julia Ducournau.
Uncork’d Entertainment will release Breeder, the Danish horror feature film Jens Dahl, a television showrunner-turned-film director who made his directorial debut with 3 Things, featuring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, in 2017.
Following an impressive global film festival run that began with the 70th annual Berlinale and included in MoMA’s 2020 New Directors/New Films festival, The Shepherdess and the Seven Songs (Laila aur satt geet) returns to New York January 12th, 2022 for a week-long run at The Museum of Modern Art.
Palm Springs International Film Society has canceled the upcoming 2022 Palm Springs International Film Festival which was set to take place this year from January 7-17, 2022.
The 4K Restoration of Dennis Hopper’s Out of the Blue (timed to its 40th Anniversary) will expand into theaters in January 2022 to cities including Los Angeles, Toronto, Vancouver, Chicago, Seattle, Atlanta, New Orleans, Nashville and more (updated list below).
Peacock released the official trailer for Joe Montana: Cool Under Pressure, the sports documentary series premiering on Thursday, January 6, 2022.
The winner of the 2021 Whistler Film Festival (WFF) Audience Award is Drinkwater, directed by Stephen Campanelli, which received its National Festival VOD Premiere at the 21st edition of the festival.
The first trailer debuted for First Oscar by Sergey Mokritskiy (Battle for Sevastopol), the new Russian WWII drama starring Tikhon Zhiznevsky, Anton Momot, Darya Zhovner, Andrey Merzlikin and Nikita Tarasov.
Ferroequinology, literally meaning the study of iron horses, is a feature-length documentary with luminous black and white cinematography, directed by Alex Nevill about the passion and artistry of railroad photography. Having made its World Premiere at Chichester Film Festival (UK) in August 2021, Ferroequinology comes Stateside for its North American Premiere at 2022 Slamdance Film Festival. The film will screen virtually from January 27-Feburary 6, 2022.