The Mammoth Film Festival is set to open with Shia LeBeouf’s Padre Pio, Abel Ferrara’s historical drama that debuted at Venice. Ferrara’s latest feature has LeBoeuf playing an Italian friar who rose to prominence at a time when fascist powers began to take over Italy. Padre Pio also stars Asia Argento, Marco Leonardi and Christina Chiriac, and director Ferrara will be at the northern California festival to do a post-film Q&A on March 2. Mammoth will close with Dreamer, which stars Diego Calva, is directed by Mohit Ramchandani and was earlier titled Bonded. The thriller is inspired by a true story from the producers of Argentina 1985 and is executive produced by Yalitza Aparicio. Mammoth, which is set to run from March 2 to 6 in Mammoth Lakes, California, has also added the horror thriller Night Shift, which stars Phoebe Tonkin, Lamorne Morris and 

Mammoth earlier announced it had booked the Israeli-crime drama The Engineer, directed by Danny A. Abeckaser and starring Emile Hirsch and Kyle Stefanski; Joel David Moore’s Some Other Woman, with Amanda Crew, Ashley Greene and Tom Felton headlining; Maritte Lee Go’s Rise, which stars Jimmy Jean-Louis and Joy Sunday; and the documentary American Badass: Michael Madsen Retrospective.