Filmmaker Yeon Sang-ho (‘Train to Busan’) directs a thought-provoking and gut-wrenching murder mystery.
It is heartbreaking to know that Pakistan’s officially selected Oscar submission, Hun Dan – An Echo of a Dirge, failed to reach the Academy Awards due to administrative hurdles and documentation issues. It was Pakistan’s first Burushaski language film, directed by Karamat Ali, preventing the country from maintaining its yearly Oscar submission streak since 2013. Pakistan Oscar Selection Committee Chairman, Muhammad Ali Naqvi (Mo Naqvi), revealed that all the documents for Hun Dan had been submitted before the October 1 deadline to the Academy. A confusion may have occurred since they received an email from the Academy, stating the documents were incomplete, even mentioning another international feature film, Palestine 36, that did not submit its complete paperwork. Mo Naqvi had been in constant contact with…
Action, action, action! Kenji Tanigaki’s The Furious will close this year’s festival opposite Ben Wheatley’s Normal, which is opening the event.
Documentarian Ry Levey (Out in the Ring, Boutique: To Preserve and Collect) has a new documentary primed and ready to hit the festival. Song Silenced: Coming Out in Christian Music will have its world premiere at the 50th Cleveland International Film Festival in April. On that announcement, the official trailer and poster were revealed today. Song Silenced: Coming Out in Christian Music uncovers the untold stories of million-selling Christian music artists who bravely came out—only to have their careers cancelled or cut short by the industry they helped define. Alongside these silenced icons, the film spotlights a new generation of openly queer musicians reshaping faith-based music by bypassing traditional Christian radio and breaking through on platforms like iTunes and Spotify, where they are topping…
Donna Davies’ documentary, 1000 Women in Horror, arrives on Shudder on March 20th. The trailer has arrived, and you can check it out below. Celebrate Women’s History Month with a New Documentary Exploring How Women Pioneers Revolutionized Horror Cinema Directed by Donna Davies Based on the Book by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas A deep dive into how women pioneers revolutionized horror cinema through their groundbreaking work as directors, actors, and creators since 1895, leaving an indelible mark on the genre’s evolution. Featuring interviews with Roxanne Benjamin, Akela Cooper, Mary Harron, Cerise Howard, Kier-La Janisse, Nikyatu Jusu, Roseanne Liang, Annalise Lockhart, Toby Poser, Sara Risher, Gigi Saul Guerrero, Kate Siegel, Jenn Wexler, and more. …
Stephen Graham and Andrea Riseborough star in this twisted psychological thriller.
Not too long ago, Paul Giamatti was on a red carpet, and when asked what he would like to do, what he has not done yet, he replied that he would like to do a horror film. It created a tremor throughout the horror community because, well, he is Paul Giamatti. The Paul Giamatti. The immediate question on everyone’s minds was, who would be the lucky filmmaker to have Giamatti involved with their project? Today, we have an answer from Deadline. It is Jim Gavin and his upcoming project, Boutique. Giamatti will play American tourist Calvin who “journeys to the eerie English seaside town that inspired the work of his favorite reclusive author but instead gets entangled with a murderous secret society permeating…
Werner Herzog needs no introduction. He has been one of cinema’s most fascinating and deliberate risk-takers for over five decades of extraordinary cinema. The enlightenments he discovers through his pursuit of the “ecstatic truth” are often intense and absurd in varying measure. Well into his 80s at this point, he has not slowed down in his filmmaking, and seemed to have no reservations traipsing around the “terra incognito” of the rugged and uninhabited Angolan wilderness along with his current documentary subject, South African biological conservationist Dr. Steve Boyes. Boyes has been an advocate and activist for the preservation of the lakes and flora and fauna of the Bié Plateau in Central Angola. Since 2015, Boyes has led the National Geographic Okavango Wilderness Project, a collection of…
As a Tunisian queer filmmaker, one must exercise particular care when addressing an issue that remains deeply taboo in society to this day. Yet this does not prevent Leyla Bouzid from boldly portraying the increasingly precarious reality faced by homosexual people within her community. With In a Whisper, she sets the story in her own former family home, revolving around three generations of women who inhabit the same space. During a roundtable discussion near the Berlinale Palast, Bouzid shared her personal perspective on the situation of queer people in Tunisia, as well as her understanding of the characters she created. In this half-suspense, half-drama story, she weaves what she witnessed growing up in a fairly conservative social environment into the fabric of the narrative. Screen Anarchy: Why…