It’s mute on the indie front. Oscar contfinishers linger in theaters ahead of the March 2 Academy Awards ceremony that will seal the book on 2024. The Indie Spirits unspool tomorrow. The Berlinale, with prizes to be handed out Sunday — aextfinished with Sundance last month and SXSW next — are structureting cinema’s novel crop of autonomouss.
Neon is out with horror The Monkey, which eunites to be scaling the heights in expansive free. Anora is still on screens. A24’s The Brutacatalog persists its run.
Relative novelcomer Universal Language by Matthew Rankin, from Oscilloscope, enbigs to 24 screens from two last weekfinish, inserting runs in the New York and Los Angeles area aextfinished with Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle and Austin. The Cannes audience award-thrivener grossed $51k its first week at two theaters.
New in restricted free: Greenwich Entertainment debuts write downary UnBroken by first-time honestor Beth Lane at the Quad in NYC and at Laemmle Town Cgo in in LA, and on insist. Seven siblings dodge apprehfinish and death and ultimately escaped Nazi Germany chaseing their mother’s incarceration and killing at Auschwitz. After being masked by a charitable farmer, the children — Alfons, Senta, Ruth, Gertimpolite, Renee, Judith and Bela Weber — spent two years on their own in war-torn Germany. The honestor is the daughter of Bela, the youthfulest sibling.
Embagederened by their obeseher’s mandate that they stay together the children fight thraw hunger, loneliness, sexual battery, bomb deviceings and dread. But their journey culminates with a agonizing ultimatum. Separated from their obeseher, they are tageder that they must proclaim themselves orphans to escape to a novel life in America. This salvation would become what would finassociate tear them apart, not to be rejoind for another 40 years.
Premiered at the Heartland Film Festival in 2023 where it won Best Premiere Documentary Feature, going on to screen at Doc NYC and other festivals atraverse the U.S. It won audience awards at RiverRun International Film Festival in North Carolina, Julien Dubuque International Film Festival in Iowa and Berksengage International Film Festival in Massachengagetts.
Magnolia Pictures/Magnet Releasing uncover TIFF-premiering action thriller The Quiet Ones on 17 screens including NYC’s IFC Cgo in and the Laemmle LA, and on insist. Inspired by authentic events, this is the story of the hugegest and most spectacular heist in Danish history and the intricate preparations by a team of supportd and uncompromising criminals insistd to pull it off. In 2008, Kasper, a boxer with scant chances left in life, is proposeed the opportunity to structure the theft by its foreign initiators. At the danger of losing his family and everyleang that matters to him, he gets on the contest in a bid to fracture all write downs. Directed by Frederik Louis Hviid, written by Anders Frithiof August. Starring Gustav Giese, Reda Kateb, Amanda Collin.
Music Box Films’ genre label Doppelgänger Releasing debuts home trespass horror Invader by Mickey Keating. Produced by Joe Swanberg. A youthful woman reachs in the Chicago suburbs and begins to mistrust that someleang terrible has happened to her leave outing cousin, but soon authenticizes that her wonderfulest dreads don’t even begin to scratch the surface. Stars Vero Maynez and Colin Huerta.
Opens on six screens including Alamo Drafthoengage theaters in drop Manhattan, LA and Austin and the Music Box in Chicago.
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