December Now Playing: ‘We Are the Giant,’ ‘Difret,’ and more

Difret

Nate von Zumwalt

With the announcement of the 2015 Sundance Film Festival program forthcoming, we round out this year’s slate of Sundance-supported films with a small but vigorous pair of theatrical releases – and a crop of Festival favorites coming to DVD and Blu-Ray in time for the holidays. Greg Barker’s We Are The Giant continues to gain pertinence with the ongoing detainment and trial of one of the film’s primary subjects, activist Maryam Al-Khawaja (read more here), while the Audience Award winner in World Dramatic Competition, Difret, finally brings its engrossing tale of abduction and forced marriage in Ethiopia to theaters.

In Theaters

Friday, December 12

We Are The Giant, directed by Greg Barker

Difret, directed by Zeresenay Mehari

DVD & Blu-Ray

Tuesday, December

Frank, directed by Lenny Abrahamson

Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead, directed by Tommy Wirkola

Tuesday, December 16

The Skeleton Twins, directed by Craig Johnson

Tuesday, December 23

The Trip To Italy, directed by Michael Winterbottom

On Demand


Tuesday, December 2

I Origins, directed by Mike Cahill

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Alexis Chikaeze as Kai in 'Miss Juneteenth,' coming to digital platforms June 19

Channing Godfrey Peoples on a Bittersweet ‘Miss Juneteenth’ Release and the Urgency of Portraying Black Humanity on Screen

After premiering at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, Channing Godfrey Peoples’s debut feature is hitting digital platforms this Juneteenth—the day for which the film is named and which is very close to the director’s heart. “I feel like I’ve been living Miss Juneteenth my whole life,” she says.
The June 19 holiday—which commemorates the day slavery was finally abolished in Texas (more than two years after the 1863 Emancipation Proclamation was issued)—is celebrated in her hometown of Fort Worth with a deep sense of reverence and community, with barbecues, a parade, and a scholarship pageant for young Black women.

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