Director Felipe Bustos Sierra documents a spontaneous act of civic resistance in Glasgow, examining how collective presence can momentarily disrupt the mechanisms of state authority.
Director Mejbaur Rahman Sumon’s evocative tale from the Bengali countryside about love and fate, echoing the freshness of Satyajit Ray’s cinema.
Director Renny Harlin’s “new and hopefully final installment.”
Keke Palmer stars, along with Jack Whitehall, Julia Duffy, Paula Pell, Mark Proksch, and Kapil Talwalkar. Celeste Hughey created the mystery-comedy series.
Directed by Rogerio Nunes, the new animated adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s book launches into the future.
Western Canada’s ever-expanding genre extravaganza, the Calgary Underground Film Festival (or CUFF for short) has put out its key art in anticipation of its April 16th launch. In keeping with its maximalist underground comix design ethos, and always using a local artist, the key art leans heavily into shades of purple, with a wispy hint of ghost-blue and warm orange. Designer Nick Johnson (also the director and producer of the animated feature film Sunburnt Unicorn) prominently features CUFF’s home, the double-decker movie-house Globe Cinema. With a host of beasties taking over the place, one of them is even offering up the theatre’s iconic hotdogs, along with double passes and popcorn. Friendly monsters, these. Given the energy of the CUFF crowd and festival organizers, that these horror fiends…
Directors Janay Boulos and Abd Alkader Habak are also the film’s protagonists, following a 13-year collaboration that unfolds from professional exchange into personal involvement amid the realities of reporting on the Syrian war.
Alexander Skarsgard and Harry Melling star in writer-director Harry Lighton’s romantic drama.
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Michael Shannon is set to star in a new horror film, Doctor Caligari’s Cabinet of Wonders, a contemporary take on the original German film, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, by Rober Weine from 1920. The original is considered to be the first ever feature length horror film. The new film will be directed by John Erick Dowdle from his own screenplay. He will co-direct with his brother Drew Dowdle. The Dowdle Brothers have worked with the actor before, on the mini-series Waco, in which Shannon co-starred. Anton, a company we talked about the other day, is fully financing the film and they currently hold the worldwide rights. They will be going to Berlinale/EFM to off-load some of those rights in pre-sales to get back…
Lukasz Simlat and Agnieszka Duleba-Kasza star in director Michał Grzybowski’s rousing, piercing drama (with shots of comedy).