Flora And Son (Premieres)
Musical crowd pleaser starring Eve Hewson and Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
Dir. John Carney
Apple Original Films has secured global rights to in a deal believed to be in the $20m range.
Kokomo City (NEXT)
Black trans sex workers tell all.
Dir: D. Smith
Magnolia Pictures acquired worldwide rights
Passages (Premieres)
Gay filmmaker questions sexuality, future after affair with woman.
Dir. Ira Sachs
MUBI acquired US, UK & Ireland, Latin American rights
Theater Camp (US Dramatic Competition)
Mockumentary about employees who must keep their camp afloat.
Dirs: Molly Gordon, Nick Lieberman
Searchlight Pictures acquired worldwide rights
North American and worldwide pre-buys ahead of festival
The Deepest Breath (Premieres)
Doc about free-diving.
Dir: Laura McGann
Netflix has worldwide rights
In My Mother’s Skin (Midnight)
Philippines tale about the young daughter of a dying woman who seeks help from flesh-eating fairy.
Dir: Kenneth Dagatan
Prime Video has worldwide rights.
Joyland (Spotlight) (Cannes)
Oscar-shortlisted Pakistani film about love, yearning, and trans burlesque boss. Cannes premiere.
Dir: Saim Sadiq
Oscilloscope has US rights.
Screen review
here
Little Richard: I Am Everything
Doc about Black queer origins of rock n’ roll and key role played by Richard Penniman aka Little Richard.
Dir: Lisa Cortés
Magnolia Pictures has worldwide rights. HBO Max has global streaming rights
My Animal (Midnight)
Small town hockey player with a dark secret falls for a figure skater
Dir: Jacqueline Castel
Paramount Worldwide Acquisition Group has worldwide excluding Canada.
Other People’s Children/Les of Enfants des autres (Spotlight)
This Venice premiere title stars Virginie Efira as woman who living with her lover and his daughter.
Dir: Rebecca Zlotowski
Music Box has US rights.
Screen review here
Run Rabbit Run (Midnight)
Australian horror film starring Succession’s Sarah Snook as a fertility doctor whose beliefs are challenged by her daughter and a ghost from her past.
Dir: Daina Reid
Netflix has worldwide rights excluding select territories.
Squaring The Circle (The Story Of Hipgnosis) (Spotlight)
Doc about design studio behind iconic album covers. Telluride 2022 premiere.
Dir: Anton Corbijn
Utopia has US rights.
Release: Summer 2023
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20 Days In Mariupol (World Cinema Documentary Competition)
Reporters risk their lives covering the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Dir: Mstyslav Chernov
Frontline/PBS has rights.
All Dirt Roads Taste Of Salt (US Dramatic Competition)
The life and loves of a Black woman in Mississippi
Dir: Raven Jackson
A24 has rights
The Amazing Maurice (Kids)
Streetwise cat and rodent pals hatch moneymaking plot
Dir: Toby Genkel
Sky Cinema has rights.
birth/rebirth (Midnight)
Shudder Original offers new take on Frankenstein story
Dir: Laura Moss
Shudder has North American rights.
Cassandro (Premieres)
Gay amateur wrestler turns Lucha Libre world on its head
Dir: Roger Ross Williams
Prime Video has worldwide rights.
Earth Mama (Premieres)
Pregnant single mother fights to reclaim her children from foster careDir: Savanah Leaf
A24 has North American rights.
The Eight Mountains (Spotlight)
Cannes 2022 premiere about the lifelong friendship of two boys from an Alpine village
Dirs: Felix van Groeningen, Charlotte Vandermeersch
Sideshow Releasing and Janus Films have North American rights
Screen review here
Infinity Pool (Midnight)
Luxury resort harbours secret horrors
Dir: Brandon Cronenberg
Neon/Topic has North American rights.
Judy Blume Forever (Premieres)
Profile of the beloved children’s author
Dirs: Davina Pardo and Leah Wolchok
Prime Video has worldwide rights
Landscape With Invisible Hand (Premieres)
Teens find a way to survive after tech-obsessed aliens take over Earth
Dir: Cory Finley
MGM has rights
L’immensita (Spotlight)
Venice premiere explores the relationship between a disillusioned wife and her child in 1970s Rome.
Dir: Emanuele Crialese
Music Box has US rights while Warner Bros has Italy.
Screen review here
Little Richard: I Am Everything (US Documentary Competition)
Profile of musical icon reveals the Black queer origins of rock ’n’ roll
Dir: Lisa Cortes
CNN Films/HBO Max has worldwide rights.
Murder In Big Horn (Premieres)
Native American families in Montana seek answers about missing Indigenous women
Dirs: Razelle Benally, Matthew Galkin
Showtime has North American rights
Past Lives (Premieres)
Close childhood friends from South Korea reunite in New York decades later
Dir: Celine Song
A24 has rights.
Polite Society (Midnight)
We Are Lady Parts creator’s action comedy about an aspiring stuntwoman’s bid to thwart her sister’s wedding
Dir: Nida Manzoor
Focus Features has worldwide rights.
Release date: April 28 2023 in US
Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields (Premieres)
Two-part profile of celebrated child star
Dir: Lana Wilson
Hulu has US rights.
Rye Lane (Premieres)
Pair of heartbroken young adults connect over the course of one day in London
Dir: Raine Allen-Miller
Searchlight Pictures has worldwide rights.
Stephen Curry: Underrated (Premieres)
Profile of basketball great Stephen Curry
Dir: Peter Nicks
Apple TV+ has worldwide rights.
Still: A Michael J. Fox Story (Premieres)
Beloved Hollywood 80s star recounts early successes and living with Parkinson’s
Dir: Davis Guggenheim
Apple TV+ has worldwide rights
The Stroll (US Documentary Competition)
History of New York’s Meatpacking District through the eyes of trans sex workers
Dirs: Kristen Lovell, Zackary Drucker
HBO has worldwide rights.
A Thousand And One (US Dramatic Competiton)
Mother kidnaps her six-year-old son from the foster care system in New York
Dir: A.V. Rockman
Focus Features has rights.
Victim/Suspect (US Dramatic Competiton)
Investigation into how women who report sexual assault are often accused of fabrication.
Dir: Nancy Schwartzman
Netflix has worldwide rights.
You Hurt My Feelings (Premieres)
An author discovers her husband dislikes her new novel.
Dir: Nicole Holofcener
A24 has rights.
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