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"Why are there no locks on the doors?" Film Movement has revealed an official trailer for a Swiss film titled The Sparrow in the Chimney, also known as Der Spatz im Kamin in German. It's the latest feature from acclaimed Swiss writer & director Ramon Zücher, also of the creepy The Girl and The Spider before this. Karen and Markus live with their children in Karen's parents’ house. Karen's sister Jule travels with her family to Markus' birthday party. While Karen takes everyone’s breath away with her domineering manner, Jule is the complete opposite. Gradually a front forms against Karen until everything escalates into a fiery inferno. An inferno that destroys the old to create the new. Described as a "darkly engrossing psychodrama of pent-up domestic tensions" with a "venomously comedic touch." The film stars Maren Eggert and Britta Hammelstein as Karen and Jule, plus Luise Heyer, Andreas Döhler, & Milian Zerzawy.

"She never really got the credit that she deserved." Red Barn Productions has debuted an official trailer for a documentary film titled Beyond the Gaze: Jule Campbell's Swimsuit Issue, opening this month. This premiered at the 2024 Montclair Film Festival last year, and it also played at the 2025 Santa Barbara Film Festival earlier this year. The film tells the story of Jule Campbell and her 32-year reign as editor of Sports Illustrated's Swimsuit Issue, turning it into a media empire. Exploring changing beauty standards, feminism's evolution, and interviews with Jule and supermodels she championed. The first Swimsuit Issue was published in 1964, with Jule handling the inital shoot with model Babette March. Through glimpses into her past, viewers gain a deep understanding of Campbell’s pioneering spirit, unwavering commitment to protecting the models she worked with, and her ability to balance the celebration of female beauty with ethical considerations. The doc...

Since its premiere at last year’s Locarno Film Festival, we’ve long-awaited the U.S. release of Ramon Zürcher’s The Sparrow in the Chimney, the trilogy-capper following the formally thrilling The Strange Little Cat and The Girl and the Spider. Starring Maren Eggert, Britta Hammelstein, Andreas Döhler, and Milian Zerzawy, the Zürcher brothers’ latest captures a dysfunctional family over the course of three days. Ahead of Film Movement’s theatrical release beginning at Bam on August 1, we’re pleased to debut the new trailer.

Here’s the synopsis: “Karen (Maren Eggert), along with her husband Markus (Andreas Döhler) and their children, lives in her childhood home left behind after the death of her mother. When her sister, Jule (Britta Hammelstein) visits with her family to celebrate Markus’s birthday, the weekend opens old wounds and past traumas, unleashing repressed feelings that threaten to destroy their relationship and shatter Karen’s grip on reality.

The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue was such a juggernaut by the late 2000s. It not only was the single best-selling issue across all of magazine publisher Time Inc. each year, but it was also largely responsible for funding most of Sports Illustrated’s editorial operations for the rest of the year. No wonder: The annual issue had launched, or furthered, the careers of supermodels Cheryl Tiegs, Kathy Ireland, Elle Macpherson, Paulina Porizkova, Tyra Banks, and Roshumba Williams in the 1970s and ’80s.

All of them appear in Jill Campbell’s new documentary “Beyond the Gaze: Jule Campbell’s Swimsuit Issue,” the trailer for which IndieWire is exclusively debuting below.

The same last name there is not a coincidence. Jill Campbell, the acclaimed documentarian of “Mr. Chibbs”, about the basketball player Kenny Anderson, is the daughter-in-law of Jule Campbell, the founding editor of the Swimsuit Issue at Sports Illustrated in the 1960s,...

Indie distributor Film Movement has snapped up North American rights to Swiss director Ramon Zürcher’s “The Sparrow in the Chimney” following its world premiere at the Locarno Film Festival.

Described by Variety’s Guy Lodge as a “darkly engrossing psychodrama of pent-up domestic tensions,” the film explores the tumultuous relationship between two sisters, Karen and Jule, whose reunion at a family gathering reignites old conflicts and deep-seated emotional turmoil.

Zürcher, thrilled by its pending North American release, explained: “This film is an exploration of the invisible forces that shape us, particularly within the family structure.”

Sold worldwide by Cercamon, the family drama “should be an arthouse breakthrough” per Variety‘s review.

“This film offers a beautifully crafted, intimate story that will resonate with audiences who appreciate cinema that is both emotionally authentic and visually captivating,” said Sebastien Chesneau of Cercamon, who negotiated the deal with Film Movement.

“What drew...