Film Movement Movie Updates

Film Movement has acquired North American rights to Spanish filmmaker Fernando Leon De Aranoa’s Amador, a portrait of a young immigrant woman living in Spain. The film, which stars Peruvian actress Magaly Solier, played at the Berlin International Film Festival. Film Movement plans a New York theatrical opening in the second ...

Steve McQueen and Chiwetel Ejiofor are going to be seeing a lot of each other. McQueen has come aboard to direct Twelve Years a Slave, which will star Ejiofor in a true story about a New York man who was kidnapped in the mid-1800s and forced to become a slave on a Louisiana cotton plantation.

New York-based specialty label Film Movement has acquired North American rights to The Queen of Hearts, the directorial debut of French thesp-turned-helmer Valerie Donzelli.

Film Movement has acquired U.S. rights to Romanian thriller "If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle," which won the Grand Jury and Alfred Bauer prizes at the Berlin Film Festival.

Film Movement has picked up 2010 SXSW alum "Helena From the Wedding" for a limited theatrical run to be followed by a video-on-demand release.

Film Movement has acquired North American rights to Ciro Guerra's Spanish-language drama "The Wind Journeys," which follows an older musician and his young acolyte through the Colombian countryside.