Indie Film Release Guide: June 29th [An ONTD Original]
Happy almost-Friday, ONTD! Major releases this weekend are Sicario: Day of the Soldado and Uncle Drew, but if neither of those films float your boat, check out this list of indies which are also being released this weekend.
Note that some of the movies listed are in their first week or two of limited release in the USA, so it may take them a few more weeks (or months) to show up in your local arthouse theater or on VOD. Check out the posts from the past few weeks for more movies that may have just opened near you: June 22, June 15, and June 8.
Leave No Trace
Click to viewStars: Ben Foster, Thomasin McKenzie, Dana Millican, Dale Dickey
Writer: Debra Granik, Anne Rosellini
Director: Debra Granik
Genre: Drama
Plot: A father and his thirteen year-old daughter are living in an ideal existence in a vast urban park in Portland, Oregon, when a small mistake derails their lives forever.
What you should know: Based on the novel by Peter Rock, this is Debra Granik’s first feature since Winter’s Bone.
Opens in: Select cities
Three Identical Strangers
Director: Tim Wardle
Genre: Documentary
Storyline: New York, 1980: three complete strangers accidentally discover that they are identical triplets, separated at birth. The 19-year-olds' joyous reunion catapults them to international fame, but it also unlocks an extraordinary and disturbing secret that goes beyond their own lives - and could transform our understanding of human nature forever.
What you should know: This film won the Special Jury Prize at Sundance 2018.
Opens in: Select cities
Woman Walks Ahead
Stars: Jessica Chastain, Michael Greyeyes, Sam Rockwell, Ciarán Hinds
Writer: Steven Knight
Director: Susanna White
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Plot: Catherine Weldon, a portrait painter from 1890s Brooklyn, travels to Dakota to paint a portrait of Sitting Bull and becomes embroiled in the Lakota peoples' struggle over the rights to their land.
What you should know: This is a fictionalized account of true events. Also available on DirecTV.
Opens in: NYC & LA
Dark River
Stars: Ruth Wilson, Mark Stanley, Sean Bean, Joe Dempsie
Written and directed by: Clio Barnard
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Plot: Following the death of her father, Alice (Ruth Wilson) returns to her home village for the first time in 15 years, to claim the tenancy to the family farm she believes is rightfully hers.
What you should know: Based in part on the novel by Rose Tremain, and stars three Game of Thrones vets - Ned Stark, Grenn, and Gendry.
Opens in: NYC & LA
Custody
Stars: Léa Drucker, Denis Ménochet, Thomas Gioria, Mathilde Auneveux
Written and directed by: Xavier Legrand
Genre: Drama
Plot: A broken marriage leads to a bitter custody battle with an embattled son at the centre.
What you should know: It’s in French.
Opens in: NYC
Ideal Home
Stars: Paul Rudd, Kate Walsh, Alison Pill, Steve Coogan
Written and directed by: Andrew Fleming
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Plot: Paul and Erasmus are a bickering couple with an extravagant life. But when Bill, the grandson Erasmus never knew he had, shows up at their dinner party with nowhere else to go, the couple reluctantly decide to take him in.
What you should know: This is the third film Coogan and Rudd have starred in together, after Night at the Museum and Our Idiot Brother.
Opens in: Select cities
The Cakemaker
Stars: Sarah Adler, Zohar Shtrauss, Tim Kalkhof, Roy Miller
Written and directed by: Ofir Raul Graizer
Genre: Drama
Plot: A German pastry maker travels to Jerusalem in search of the wife and son of his dead lover.
What you should know: It’s in German and English.
Opens in: NYC & LA
Summer of ‘67
Stars: Ivy Rhodes, Buddy Campbell, Skeeta Jenkins, Karen Boles
Written and directed by: Sharon Wilharm
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Plot: Based on real life events, Summer of '67 brings to life the turbulent times of the sixties and the struggles faced by the men and women impacted by the Vietnam War.
What you should know: Watch the trailer. The low budget jumped out!
Opens in: Check your local listings
Love, Cecil
Director: Lisa Immordino Vreeland
Genre: Documentary
Storyline: Cecil Beaton was a respected photographer, artist and set designer, best known for designing on award winning films such as 'Gigi' (1958) and 'My Fair Lady' (1964). This film features archive footage and interviews with a number of models, artists and filmmakers who worked closely with Beaton during his illustrious career. Cecil Beaton was not only a dazzling chronicler of his time, but a supreme arbiter of its tastes.
What you should know: Won the Audience Award at the Hamptons International Film Festival last year.
Opens in: NYC & LA
This is Congo
Director: Daniel McCabe
Genre: Documentary, History, War
Storyline: An unfiltered look in to the lives of 3 characters surviving amongst the most recent cycle of conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo, otherwise known as the M23 rebellion.
What you should know: It looks like this opened a while ago, but it's getting screenings again? Idk what the deal is.
Opens in: LA
The Domestics
Stars: Tyler Hoechlin, Kate Bosworth, Sonoya Mizuno, David Dastmalchian
Written and directed by: Mike P. Nelson
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Plot: In a terrifying post-apocalyptic world inhabited by gangs divided into deadly factions, a husband and wife race desperately across the countryside in search of safety and must work together as they are pushed to the breaking point in order to survive.
What you should know: You don’t even have to go a theater - it’s gonna be available on demand.
Opens in: Select cities
Hover
Stars: Cleopatra Coleman, Shane Coffey, Craig Mums Grant, Fabianne Therese
Writer: Cleopatra Coleman
Director: Matt Osterman
Genre: Sci-Fi
Plot: In the near future, environmental strain has caused food shortages around the world. Technology provides a narrow path forward, with agricultural drones maximizing the yield from what land remains. Two compassionate care providers, Claudia and her mentor John, work to assist sick farmland inhabitants in ending their lives. After John dies under mysterious circumstances, a group of locals helps Claudia to uncover a deadly connection between the health of her clients and the technology they are using.
What you should know: Will be available on demand starting July 3rd.
Opens in: NYC & LA
Also opening: Sanju (Trailer), Black Water (Trailer), The Winter Brothers (Trailer)
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