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Theatrical Premiere Release Date for Sean McNamara’s Holocaust Drama Bau, Artist at War

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Holocaust-Drama-Bau-Artist-at-WarBau, Artist at War, the powerful historical drama directed by Sean McNamara (Reagan, Soul Surfer), will have its theatrical release by ShowBiz Direct in the U.S. and Canada on September 26, 2025. The film, which stars Hirsch as real-life Holocaust survivor and artist Joseph Bau, is distributed by ShowBiz Direct and Republic Pictures.

The story of creativity, survival, and love based on Joseph Bau’s memoir, Bau, Artist at War tells the inspirational true story of how Bau used his creativity and skills as a forger to help fellow prisoners survive the horrors of Nazi concentration camps. Despite facing unimaginable adversity, he finds hope and love with fellow prisoner Rebecca (Inbar Lavi).

“This is a story the world needs to see, to remind us of the power of hope, even in the darkest times,” says McNamara. “It’s a powerful testament to resilience, and I can’t wait for audiences to finally see Joseph Bau’s incredible life story on the big screen.”
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SFFILM Announces the Lineup for the 68th San Francisco International Film Festival

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L to R top row: Josh O’Connor, Lily LaTorre in REBUILDING. Nicole Beharie, André Holland in LOVE, BROOKLYN. Asia Kate Dillon, Ridley Asha Bateman in OUTERLANDS. L to R, bottom row: filmmaker Chris Columbus, and actor André Holland. Top row photos and A. Holland headshot courtesy of rights holders. C. Columbus photo courtesy of Netflix; photo by Giles Keyte.

Today, SFFILM announced the full lineup for the 68th San Francisco International Film Festival (SFFILM Festival), the longest-running film festival in the Americas. Taking place April 17-27, the Festival returns to its full 11-day run bringing the best of this year’s global filmmaking to Bay Area audiences in theaters across San Francisco’s Marina and Presidio neighborhoods, the Mission, and in Berkeley. The festival lineup includes over 150 films from more than 50 countries including 11 World Premieres, 10 International Premieres, 10 North American Premieres, and six US Premieres. All feature films in competition, special events, and Marquee sections are California premieres. In addition to many filmmakers returning to the Festival, the program also includes 11 SFFILM Supported titles which are projects that received support from the organization’s youth education and artist development programs as grants, residencies, or funding, reflecting the year round mission of SFFILM.

“I am over the moon that we are back with 11 days of screenings, special Tributes, Awards, free talks, our annual Industry Days Conference, parties, city tours, and much more. It has been a delight to curate over 150 films for this year’s festival and we cannot wait to welcome local and international creatives to the city by the Bay,” said Jessie Fairbanks, SFFILM’s Director of Programming. “The program is packed with discovery titles, emerging storytellers, buzzy new films, A-list talent, and a special horror retrospective—that will be sure to delight audiences and filmmakers alike.”

The Festival opens with Max Walker-Silverman’s Rebuilding, a poignant exploration of communal love and resilience in the wake of devastating wildfires. This intimate, timely drama stars Josh O’Connor (Challengers, La Chimera, The Crown) as a man determined to restore his family’s ranch and rediscover his purpose. The Centerpiece presentation is Rachael Abigail Holder’s Love, Brooklyn, a layered romantic comedy exploring urban isolation and Black life in the modern age. Executive produced by Steven Soderbergh and starring André Holland, Nicole Beharie, and DeWanda Wise, the film generates plenty of sparks and humor. The Centerpiece film is presented alongside a Festival Tribute celebrating the career and craft of André Holland (Selma, Moonlight, Passing) who has been dazzling audiences on stage, television, and screen over the past two decades. Alongside the Centerpiece film, Holland offers a remarkable performance in Andre Gaines’s The Dutchman in the Marquee spotlight.
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Sundance Institute Announces Boulder, Colorado, as the New Home for the Sundance Film Festival Beginning in 2027

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sundanceSundance Institute’s Board of Trustees has announced that Boulder, Colorado, will become the Festival’s home beginning in 2027.

“This decision was informed by a detailed evaluation of the key components essential to creating our Festival. During the process, it became clear that Boulder is the ideal location in which to build our Festival’s future, marking a key strategic step in its natural evolution,” said Ebs Burnough, Sundance Institute Board Chair. “We have a profound appreciation for the finalist cities and their communities — including Boulder, Colorado, Cincinnati, Ohio, and Salt Lake City, Utah — who presented overwhelmingly strong proposals and dedicated their time, passion, and commitment every step of the way. We have deep respect and gratitude to these communities for their hard work and partnership throughout the past year. Additionally, we sincerely value the steadfast support from our staff and board as we have ventured on this exploration together.”

The Sundance Film Festival is the largest artist program of the nonprofit Sundance Institute. Its Artist Programs cultivate a vibrant ecosystem, supporting artists and connecting their work with audiences. The Festival stands as the pre-eminent gathering of original storytellers and audiences seeking new voices, fresh perspectives, and a celebration of independent film and storytelling.

sundance-boulder“The Sundance Film Festival is a catalyst for innovation, creative expression, and the discovery of groundbreaking independent films that inspire and shape the future of storytelling. This process provided the opportunity to imagine how we design the Festival while staying true to our programming and mission. We extend our appreciation to the staff, artists, partners, volunteers, and audiences who have and continue to support that mission,” said Amanda Kelso, Sundance Institute Acting CEO. “Boulder is an art town, tech town, mountain town, and college town. It is a place where the Festival can build and flourish. This is the beginning of a bold, new journey as we invite everyone to be part of our community and to be entertained and inspired. We can’t imagine a better fit than Boulder.”

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Global Superstar Chris Brown Announces ‘BREEZY BOWL XX’ World Tour

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chris-brownToday, two-time Grammy winning global R&B superstar Chris Brown has announced he will embark on a summer stadium run across North America and Europe for his Breezy Bowl XX Tour. Presented by Live Nation, the tour kicks off on June 8 in Europe, beginning its North American leg on July 30 playing out across the continent including iconic venues Fenway Park and Wrigley Field. The trek will feature two R&B’s powerhouses: Grammy nominated multi-platinum hitmaker Summer Walker—appearing on the North American leg—and 3x Grammy nominated and multi-platinum selling artist, Bryson Tiller, who will join as a special guest across all dates.

Breezy Bowl XX celebrates 20 years of Brown’s career and builds on the momentum of his highly successful 2024 11:11 Tour, which supported his Billboard R&B Albums chart-topping studio release. The tour delivered sold-out shows across North America and sold-out stadium shows in Brazil and South Africa, reaffirming Brown’s global touring power and audience demand.

Chart topping, multi-Platinum artist Christopher Maurice Brown is an American singer, songwriter, dancer, and actor. The RCA Records signee is regarded as one of the most prominent artists in R&B music, being credited as an evolver of the genre, and often being referred to by contemporaries as the “King of R&B.” His R&B has been characterized by several influences from other genres, mainly pop music and hip hop. To date, Chris Brown currently stands as the R&B singer with the most Hot 100 entries in Billboard history to-date. His lyrics develop predominantly over emotional and hedonistic themes. Brown has had wide comparisons to Michael Jackson for his singing and dancing abilities, as well as for his stage presence.
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Lady Gaga Unveils ‘The Mayhem Ball’ Tour with Dates Across North America, Europe and the UK

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the-mayhem-ball-lady-gagaAfter much anticipation, 14-time Grammy Award-winner Lady Gaga has officially announced ‘The MAYHEM Ball’ tour with dates across North America, Europe, and the UK this year in support of her new album, MAYHEM, which received widespread acclaim from critics and fans upon release and debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200. Stream MAYHEM HERE.

Following her 2025 headlining sets at Coachella, stadium residencies in Mexico City and Singapore, and landmark free concert on Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Gaga will kick off The MAYHEM Ball on July 16 in Las Vegas at T-Mobile Arena. With multiple nights in Seattle, New York, Miami, Toronto, Chicago, London, Stockholm, Milan, Barcelona, Berlin, and more, this tour marks Gaga’s first North American and Europe/UK run since her iconic 2022 Chromatica Ball Tour.

“This is my first arena tour since 2018,” said Gaga. “There’s something electric about a stadium, and I love every moment of those shows. But with The MAYHEM Ball, I wanted to create a different kind of experience—something more intimate—closer, more connected—that lends itself to the live theatrical art I love to create.”

Taking the world by storm, MAYHEM continues to dominate the charts. The album debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, marking Gaga’s seventh consecutive No. 1 album. In its second week, it remains one of the biggest releases of the year, maintaining Top 2 positions across key charts including No. 2 on the Billboard 200, Digital Albums, and US LP Vinyl Albums charts. It also retains the No. 1 spot on both the Billboard Top Pop Albums chart and the Top Dance/Electronic Albums chart for the second consecutive week—the latter of which earned Gaga her eighth career No. 1 on the tally, making her the most successful artist of all time in the chart’s history. She now stands alone with the most No. 1 albums ever on the Dance/Electronic Albums chart.
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Film Feature: “Killer of Sheep” Charles Burnett’s American Independent Masterpiece

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killer-sheep“Killer of Sheep”, Charles Burnett’s 1977 debut feature and landmark American independent masterpiece, will run at Film Forum from Friday, April 18 to Thursday, April 24, in a new 4K restoration.

Stan, employed at a slaughterhouse in the neighborhood of Watts, Los Angeles, is suffering from the emotional side effects of his bloody occupation to such a degree that his entire life unhinges. He seeks out tenderness in the face of unending struggle. Focusing on everyday life in Black communities with ingenuity, heart, and meticulous detail–a manner that had rarely been seen in American cinema–Burnett (acting as director, writer, producer, cinematographer, and editor) combines lyrical elements with a starkly neorealist, documentary-like approach that unfolds with kaleidoscopic intimacy.

On a budget of less than $10,000, Burnett shot KILLER OF SHEEP in roughly a year of weekends, filmed on location with a mostly amateur cast, a gritty documentary-style cinematography and much handheld camera work. The film’s soundtrack, which Burnett envisioned as an aural history of African-American popular music, includes songs by Etta James, Paul Robeson, Little Walter, and Earth, Wind & Fire. The new 4K restoration, which has improved picture and sound, marks the first theatrical release with the Dinah Washington song “Unforgettable” recovered in the ending, as was found in Burnett’s original release of the film, since being replaced in 2007 due to copyright issues.

Largely overlooked for decades following its 1977 release, KILLER OF SHEEP is now celebrated as a pivotal work of the LA Rebellion movement and hailed as a masterpiece that brought Black American lives to the screen with an unparalleled, poignant compassion.

“I come from a working-class environment and I wanted to express what the realities were. People were trying to get jobs, and once they found jobs they were fully concerned with keeping them. And they were confronted with other problems, with serious problems at home for example, which made things much more difficult… “[The] real problems lie within the family, trying to make that work and be a human being. You don’t necessarily win battles; you survive.” – Charles Burnett

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Fantagraphics to Publish Witchcraft by Sole Otero

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Witchcraft-Sole-OteroFantagraphics has announced to publishing the newest book by Sole Otero, a “rising star of international comics” (Publishers Weekly Starred Review), on October 7th, 2025.

“Told as a fractured narrative and following a sisterhood of witches from the 1700s to the present, Witchcraft is a mesmerizing mystery to piece together.”

“Sole Otero’s English debut, Mothballs, was a quietly powerful graphic novel that asserted herself onto the international comics scene,” said editor Conrad Groth. “But now her newest work, Witchcraft, reveals the lofty heights of her creativity, talent, and literary ambition. It’s rich in ideas and meaning, effortlessly jumps in tone from introspective to eerie to hilariously raunchy, and showcases a stunning range of art and storytelling styles. Simply put, a powerhouse of a book that playfully pushes the comics medium forward. I am ecstatic that Sole’s books have a home at Fantagraphics.”

Sole Otero commented: “The release of Mothballs in English has been very significant for me since I’ve been reading American comics since I was a teenager. From far away I’ve dreamt about this unreachable world of graphic novels and authors and I am of course very happy to become a part of it. Witchcraft is an exercise of writing a mysterious dreamy story that gathers lots of my interests and shapes them as a horror fiction. For me it was supposed to be the challenge of building a universe where not everything needed an explanation but everything spoke about my surroundings and my country.”

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Saga Co-Creator Brian K. Vaughan Teams With Artist Niko Henrichon For “Spectators”

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spectatorsNew York Times bestselling, award winning creative team Brian K. Vaughan (Saga, We Stand on Guard, Paper Girls) and Niko Henrichon (Pride of Baghdad) are back with a provocative, hard hitting new graphic novel titled, Spectators. First serialized in Vaughan’s Substack newsletter, this jaw-dropping, lavishly hand-painted epic will be collected in its entirety at last and available in a stunning hardcover edition this September.

Spectators sees Vaughan and Henrichon together again—for the first time in nearly two decades since their award winning, contemporary classic Pride of Baghdad took the industry by storm—this time for their most ambitious project yet.

Now, Spectators promises to put the “graphic” back in graphic novel and will feature an unconventional supernatural romance, a critical exploration of sex and violence, and a deep dive into the very different ways we obsessively watch both.

Set hundreds of years in the future, New York City is haunted by many ghosts, including a voyeuristic woman who died in our present day and a mysterious gun-toting man from the distant past. Normally solo travelers, these two specters meet each other just in time to observe what might be the end of the (living) world.
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Official Trailer for “Devil May Cry”

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devil-may-cry“Devil May Cry” now has an official trailer, and its action-packed and it features an amazing great soundtrack.

The upcoming series is based on the video game series of the same name, created by Hideki Kamiya and developed by Capcom.

The synopsis says: “When a mysterious villain threatens to open the gates of Hell, a devilishly handsome demon hunter could be the world’s best hope for salvation.”

“Devil May Cry” is scheduled to be released on April 3, 2025 on Netflix.

Watch the official trailer for Devil May Cry below:

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“Relative Control” Starring Teri Polo Sets Digital Release

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relative-controlGravitas Ventures is set to release “Relative Control” on digital platforms on April 11, 2025.

The film won the Blue Hen Award for Best Regional Narrative at the 2024 Rehoboth Beach Independent Film Festival and also screened at the 2025 Sedona International Film Festival.

The film stars Teri Polo (Meet the Parents trilogy, the Fosters, Good Trouble, The Big Leap) who shines as a middle-aged, type-A attorney whose perfectly ordered life spirals hilariously out of control. The film also stars Patrick F. McDade (Mare of Easttown, Concrete Cowboy, Paterno), and Brian Anthony Wilson (Limitless, Law Abiding Citizen, The Wire).

In the upcoming comedy drama, a middle-aged, type-A attorney’s life spirals as she juggles her handful of an ex-cop father, forgetful mother, unemployed son, a reignited romance, and a hostile takeover in the biggest corporate control battle of her career.

“Relative Control” captures the humor, heartbreak, and chaos of balancing family caregiving and career with poignant authenticity. With over 30 million family caregivers in the U.S., “Relative Control” offers a relatable and timely story for multigenerational audiences.

Watch the trailer below for “Relative Control”

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