Directed and written by David Cronenberg (The Fly, Crash, Eastern Promises), The Shrouds, starring Vincent Cassel, Diane Kruger, Academy Award nominee Guy Pearce, and Sandrine Holt, will be released on Friday, April 18 in New York and Los Angeles by Sideshow and Janus Films. This Friday, April 25, it will spread across the country. Following its global premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, where it screened in competition, the movie went on to play at the New York Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival. Saint Laurent’s producers are Anthony Vaccarello, Martin Katz, and Saïd Ben Saïd. With assistance from Canal +, OCS, and the Centre National du Cinema et de L’image Animée, it is a film produced by SBS, Prospero Pictures, and Saint Laurent Productions, with involvement from Telefilm Canada, Eurimages, Ontario Creates, in collaboration with Sphere Films, Crave, and CBC Films. Karsh (Cassel) is a well-known entrepreneur. He creates GraveTech, a groundbreaking and contentious device that allows the living to keep an eye on their loved ones in their shrouds, because he is distraught about the death of his wife. Several graves, including Karsh’s wife’s, are desecrated one night. Karsh sets out to find the criminals. Gints Zibalodis’ Flow is presently available through Sideshow & Janus Films. Nearing $4 million at the box office, the movie just got two Academy Award nominations for Best Animated Feature and Best International Feature (Latvia). Maura Delpero’s Italian Oscar submission Vermiglio and Payal Kapadia’s All We Imagine As Light are also available. Other forthcoming films include Cloud by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Caught By The Tides by Jia Zhangke, and Miseracordia by Alain Guiraduie, which was just nominated for seven Césars, including Best Picture. Topics #DavidCronenberg #JanusFilms #SideshowFilms #TheShrouds