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Every week there are large numbers of indie and specialty releases vying for attention. It’s impossible to do them all, so when the option of reviewing Nowhere Special was placed in front of me I resisted at first after discovering it actually premiered at the 2020 Venice Film Festival. That’s right, four years ago. I had to wonder what could possibly be good about a film delayed for that long in terms of getting a U.S. release date? Finally caving in to the persistent requests by the distributor and its passionate PR team, I decided to check it out.

What I discovered was not that this was some sort of troubled film, not even close. Instead I found a spare but moving drama, powered by a remarkable lead performance, that is all about life and death and all things in between. At its heart it is also an...

"One day, would you like to live in a different town, different home?" Cohen Media Group has unveiled a brand new official US trailer for Nowhere Special, an indie drama made by Uberto Pasolini. This film originally premiered in 2020 at the Venice Film Festival and ended up opening in most of Europe in 2021 already. It also played at the Zurich, Hamburg, Warsaw, and Istanbul Film Festivals, among others, and is finally getting an actual US release later in April. A single father is forced into a heartbreaking situation in this moving film. James Norton stars as John, a window cleaner who has dedicated his life to raising his 4-year-old son, Michael, whose mother abandoned him. When John is diagnosed with terminal cancer, with a prognosis of only a few months left to live, he searches for a new family for his son ahead of his passing. He struggles with the...

The programme for the 9th Jameson Belfast Film Festival, which runs from 26th March until 4th April 2009, has been unveiled. Northern Irish shot films to screen will include Kari Skogland's '50 Dead Men Walking', Glenn Leyburn and Lisa Barro's 'Cherrybomb', the post apocalyptic 'Ditching' and Carol Moore's 'Pumpgirl'. The programme was launched last week in Belfast by Minister for Culture, Arts and Leisure, Gregory Campbell and the Lord Mayor of Belfast Councillor Tom Hartley who described the event as "a cornerstone event in the city's annual arts calendar". Over 130 film screenings from over 30 countries mix in with various special events. The Irish Premiere of 'Little Ashes', a film which chronicles the life of a young Salvador Dali, will open the Festival at Movie House Dublin Road on 26th March.