Festival Perspectives

Director: Ebs Burnough Run Time: 98 min. Rating: NR Release Year: 2021

Starring: Truman Capote

Country: United States, United Kingdom
Language: English

Using tapes, animation, and new on-camera interviews with people who knew him, the film explores the impact of Capote's explosive unfinished novel "Answered Prayers." TIFF 2019

Director: Michael Webber Run Time: 110 min. Rating: NR Release Year: 2021

Starring: Aaron M Nixon, Carole Baskin, Howard Baskin, Tim Harrison

Country: United States
Language: English

Retired Ohio police officer, Tim Harrison, stumbles upon a bombshell discovery when he suspects that the world's most famous celebrity conservationists may be secretly connected to the big cat trade. Prize winner at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival.

Director: Betsy West, Julie Cohen Run Time: 91 min. Rating: PG-13 Release Year: 2021

Starring: Brittney Cooper, Dolores Chandler, Patricia Bell-Scott, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Pressman Fuentes

Country: United States
Language: English

Sundance 2021. A remarkable portrait of the overlooked but brilliant lawyer, scholar, priest and queer pioneer who influenced Thurgood Marshall and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. You may not know the name, but you live in Pauli's legacy.

Director: Clint Eastwood Run Time: 104 min. Rating: PG-13 Release Year: 2021

Starring: Clint Eastwood, Dwight Yoakam, Eduardo Minett, Fernanda Urrejola, Natalia Traven

Country: United States
Language: English

A story of being lost... and found.

Director: Sion Sono Run Time: 103 min. Rating: NR Release Year: 2021

Starring: Bill Moseley, Nick Cassavetes, Nicolas Cage, Sofia Boutella, TAK∴

Country: United States
Language: English

A notorious criminal must break an evil curse in order to rescue an abducted girl who has mysteriously disappeared. Sundance 2021

Director: Michael Showalter Run Time: 126 min. Rating: PG-13 Release Year: 2021

Starring: Andrew Garfield, Cherry Jones, Jessica Chastain, Vincent D'Onofrio

Country: Canada, United States
Language: English

An intimate look at the extraordinary rise, fall and redemption of televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker. Premiering at TIFF 2021.

Director: Paul Schrader Run Time: 112 min. Rating: NR Release Year: 2021

Starring: Billy Slaughter, Oscar Isaac, Tiffany Haddish, Tye Sheridan, Willem Dafoe

Country: United Kingdom, China, United States
Language: English

An ex-military interrogator turned gambler is haunted by the ghosts of his past decisions. Venice 2021.

Run Time: 146 min. Release Year: 2021

Audiences at over 400 venues across six continents unite for one week for one film festival. Attendees will vote for Best Film and Best Actor.

Director: Gabriel Bologna Run Time: 115 min. Rating: PG-13 Release Year: 2021

Starring: Joseph Bologna, Karina Smirnoff, Lainie Kazan, Philip Anthony-Rodriguez, Renée Taylor

Country: United States
Language: English

To save his Hebrew school from bankruptcy, an Orthodox Jewish Rabbi develops a plan to enter a televised Tango competition with a beautiful dance instructor. Produced by Joel Zwick of My Big Fat Greek Wedding.

Director: Bill Benz Run Time: 92 min. Rating: NR Release Year: 2021

Starring: Carrie Brownstein, Dakota Johnson, Ezra Buzzington, St. Vincent, Toko Yasuda

Country: United States
Language: English

While making a documentary about her music, Annie Clark and the stage persona of St. Vincent begin to merge in unexpectedly dark ways. Sundance 2020.

Director: Frida Kempff Run Time: 93 min. Rating: NR Release Year: 2021

Starring: Albin Grenholm, Alexander Salzberger, Cecilia Milocco, Krister Kern

Country: Sweden
Language: Swedish

A woman leaves a psychiatric ward after a nervous breakdown, only to start hearing mysterious knocking sounds in her apartment. Sundance 2021.