"Critic’s Pick! Rhythmic and propulsive... uses every instrument cinema affords. The result, in a word, is marvelous."
– Alissa Wilkinson, The New York Times

“A bravura cinematic essay that intertwines jazz, history, and the taste of a spy thriller…what Grimonprez creates here is a mind-blowingly rich tapestry of research, music, and the jazziest history lesson imaginable.”
– Tomris Laffly, Harper’s Bazaar

United Nations, 1960: the Global South ignites a political earthquake, jazz musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach crash the Security Council, Nikita Khrushchev bangs his shoe, and the U.S. State Department swings into action, sending jazz ambassador Louis Armstrong to Congo to deflect attention from the CIA-backed coup. Director Johan Grimonprez captures the moment when African politics and American jazz collided in this magnificent essay film, a riveting historical rollercoaster that illuminates the political machinations behind the 1961 assassination of Congo’s leader Patrice Lumumba. Richly illustrated by eyewitness accounts, official government memos, testimonies from mercenaries and CIA operatives, speeches from Lumumba himself, and a veritable canon of jazz icons, Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat interrogates colonial history to tell an urgent and timely story of precedent that resonates more than ever in today’s geopolitical climate.

Soundtrack to a Coup d’État is currently playing in theaters.

In the treacherous and swampy forests that make up the so-called “green border” between Belarus and Poland, refugees from the Middle East and Africa are lured by government propaganda promising easy passage to the European Union. Unable to cross into Europe and unable to turn back, they find themselves trapped in a rapidly escalating geopolitical stand-off. An unflinching depiction of the migrant crisis captured in stark black-and-white, this riveting film explores the intractable issue from multiple perspectives: a Syrian family fleeing ISIS caught between cruel border guards in both countries; young guards instructed to brutalize and reject the migrants; and activists who aid the refugees at great personal risk.

Thirty years after Europa Europa, three-time Oscar® nominee Agnieszka Holland brings a masterful eye for realism and deep compassion to this blistering critique of a humanitarian calamity that continues to unfold. Winner of the Special Jury Prize at the 2023 Venice Film Festival, Green Border is a poignant and essential work of cinema that opens our eyes and speaks to the heart, challenging viewers to reflect on the moral choices that fall to ordinary people every day.

Green Border is coming November 7 to Kino Film Collection.

Jean-Luc Godard is synonymous with cinema. With the release of Breathless in 1960, he established himself overnight as a cinematic rebel and symbol for the era's progressive and anti-war youth. Sixty-two years and 140 films later, Godard is among the most renowned artists of all time, taught in every film school yet still shrouded in mystery. One of the founders of the French New Wave, political agitator, revolutionary misanthrope, film theorist and critic, the list of his descriptors goes on and on. Godard Cinema offers an opportunity for film lovers to look back at his career and the subjects and themes that obsessed him, while paying tribute to the ineffable essence of the most revered French director of all time.

Godard Cinema is available to watch on the Kino Film Collection.

An investigative thriller set in the world of nuclear power and politics, La Syndicaliste follows the true story of Maureen Kearney (Isabelle Huppert), the influential head union representative of a French multinational nuclear powerhouse. A deft navigator of elite political and financial circles, Maureen becomes a whistleblower when she discovers international backroom dealings, exposing secrets that shook the French nuclear sector. Fighting against government ministers and industry leaders, Maureen worked tirelessly to bring the scandal to light and defend thousands of jobs until she was violently sexually assaulted in her own home, seemingly targeted for her attempts to reveal the truth. As her attack is investigated, new elements create doubt in the minds of detectives and lawyers, and they begin to see Maureen not as a victim, but as a suspect. Surrounded by powerful enemies and unable to trust anyone, Maureen must fight to clear her name.

La Syndicaliste is available to watch on the Kino Film Collection.

This riveting exploration of rebellion, memory, and sisterhood reconstructs the story of Olfa Hamrouni and her four daughters, unpacking a complex family history through intimate interviews and performance to examine how the Tunisian woman’s two eldest were radicalized by Islamic extremists. Casting professional actresses as the missing daughters, along with acclaimed Egyptian-Tunisian actress Hend Sabri as Olfa, award-winning director Kaouther Ben Hania (The Man Who Sold His Skin) restages pivotal moments in the family’s life. These scenes are interwoven with confessions and reflections from Olfa and her younger daughters, offering the women agency to tell their own story and capturing moments of joy, loss, violence, and heartache. Winner of four prizes including L’Oeil d'Or (Best Documentary) when it screened in competition at the Cannes Film Festival, Four Daughters is a compelling portrait of five women and a unique and ambitious work of nonfiction cinema that explores the nature of memory, the weight of inherited trauma, and the ties that bind mothers and daughters.

Four Daughters opened in theaters October 27, 2023.

South Bronx teen Kadir (Asante Blackk) is a gifted visual artist who loses his way following the death of his younger brother. Overcome with grief and struggling with the pressures of school and family, he escapes into the thrilling yet dangerous world of graffiti gangs, seeking an outlet for the creative force threatening to explode out of him. To prove himself and join his neighborhood’s ruling gang, Kadir tries to rob no-nonsense MTA conductor Luis (Luis Guzmán) on the Story Ave subway platform. He is caught off guard when Luis agrees to give Kadir the cash if he’ll sit down to a meal with him. Following their conversation and the delicate, transformative friendship that grows out of it, Kadir sees for the first time how his artistic talent could lead to a better life. Winner of the Best Cinematography prize at SXSW, this moving and authentic portrait of the South Bronx announces an exciting new cinematic voice in Aristotle Torres and offers a welcome showcase for beloved character actor Guzman and rising star Blackk (This Is Us), alongside a supporting cast of up-and-comers including Alex R. Hibbert (Moonlight), Cassandra Freeman (Bel-Air), Coral Peña (For All Mankind), and Melvin Gregg (The Blackening).

Story Ave opened in theaters September 29, 2023. Watch now on Kino Now.

In Hold Me Tight, Vicky Krieps (Phantom Thread, Bergman Island) gives another riveting performance as Clarisse, a woman on the run from her family for reasons that aren’t immediately clear. Widely renowned as one of France’s great contemporary actors but less well-known in North America for his equally impressive work behind the camera, Mathieu Amalric’s sixth feature as director is his most ambitious to date. This virtuosic, daringly fluid portrait of a woman in crisis alternates between Clarisse’s adventures on the road and scenes of her abandoned husband Marc (Arieh Worthalter) as he struggles to take care of their children at home. Amalric’s film keeps viewers uncertain as to the reality of what they’re seeing until the final moments of this moving, unpredictable, and richly rewarding family drama.

Hold Me Tight was released in theaters in the US on September 9, 2022.

The inimitable Kathleen Collins's second film tells the story of two remarkable people, married and hurtling toward a crossroads in their lives: Sara Rogers, a Black professor of philosophy, is embarking on an intellectual quest just as her painter husband, Victor, sets off on an exploration of joy. Victor decides to rent a country house away from the city, but the couple’s summer idyll becomes complicated by his involvement with a younger model. One of the very first fictional features by an African-American woman, LOSING GROUND remains a stunning and powerful work of art for being a funny, brilliant, and personal member of indie cinema canon.

Losing Ground was re-released in US theaters in a 4K restoration by Yale Film Archive, The Film Foundation, and Milestone Films on October 7, 2022.

“Remember when we talked about being alone in the world?” Sara is a genderfluid blue-collar worker who lives as her male birth identity Robson by day while caring for her religious grandmother in Sobradinho, a small town in the northeast of Brazil. Daniel, who teaches in a police academy in southern metropolis Curitiba, has been placed on unpaid leave after a violent incident that’s all over the news. The only thing holding him together is his online romance with Sara, whom he has never met in person. When she suddenly disappears, Daniel drives 2,000 miles across Brazil to find her. He posts Sara’s picture all over town but no one recognizes her, until he receives a mysterious call from someone claiming to know her and asking to meet. What follows is a journey of the heart that will change Sara and Daniel forever. In the tradition of A Fantastic Woman and Strawberry and Chocolate, the film is both a swooning sun-baked romance and a triumphant affirmation of queer love and humanity at a time when LGBTQ+ rights are increasingly imperiled everywhere. An official selection of the Venice Film Festival and Brazil’s official submission to the 94th Academy Awards®, Private Desert boasts lush cinematography and a haunting atmospheric score. You’ll never hear “Total Eclipse of the Heart” the same again.

Private Desert opened in theaters in the US on August 26, 2022.

The pseudonymous Agnes was a pioneering transgender woman who participated in an infamous gender health study conducted at UCLA in the 1960s. Her clever use of the study to gain access to gender-affirming healthcare led to her status as a fascinating and celebrated figure in trans history. In this innovative cinematic exercise that blends fiction and nonfiction, director Chase Joynt (No Ordinary Man) uses Agnes’s story, along with others unearthed in long-shelved case files, to widen the frame through which trans history is viewed. Through a collaborative practice of reimagination, an all-star cast of trans performers, artists, and thinkers – including Angelica Ross (Pose), Jen Richards (Mrs. Fletcher), and Zackary Drucker (Transparent) – take on vividly rendered, impeccably vintage reenactments, bringing to life groundbreaking artifacts of trans history. This collective reclamation breaks down the myth of isolation among transgender history-makers, breathing new life into a lineage of collaborators and conspirators who have been forgotten for far too long.

Framing Agnes will open in theaters in the US on December 2, 2022.

“If the camera is predatory, then the culture is predatory.” In this eye-opening documentary, celebrated independent filmmaker Nina Menkes explores the sexual politics of cinematic shot design. Using clips from hundreds of movies we all know and love – from Metropolis to Vertigo to Phantom Thread – Menkes convincingly makes the argument that shot design is gendered. Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power illuminates the patriarchal narrative codes that hide within supposedly “classic” set-ups and camera angles, and demonstrates how women are frequently displayed as objects for the use, support, and pleasure of male subjects. Building on the essential work of Laura Mulvey and other feminist writers, Menkes shows how these not-so-subtle embedded messages affect and intersect with the twin epidemics of sexual abuse and assault, as well as employment discrimination against women, especially in the film industry. The film features interviews with an all-star cast of women and non-binary industry professionals including Julie Dash, Penelope Spheeris, Charlyne Yi, Joey Soloway, Catherine Hardwicke, Eliza Hittman, Maria Giese, and Rosanna Arquette. The result is an electrifying call-to-action that will fundamentally change the way you see, and watch, movies.

Brainwashed opened in theaters in the US on October 21, 2022.

Flaming Ears is a 1981 pop sci-fi lesbian extravaganza set in the year 2700 in the fictional burned-out city of Asche that follows the tangled lives of three women. Spy is a comic book artist whose printing presses are burned down by Volley, a sexed-up pyromaniac. Seeking revenge, Spy goes to the lesbian club where Volley performs every night. Before she can enter, Spy gets into a fight and is left wounded in the streets. She is found by Nun, an amoral alien in a red plastic suit with a predilection for reptiles... who also happens to be Volley’s lover. Nun takes the injured Spy home and must hide her from Volley. This story of obsession and revenge is also an anti-romantic plea for love in all its many forms. A truly underground film shot on Super 8 and newly restored, Flaming Ears is original for its playful disruption of narrative conventions, its witty approach to film genre, and its punk visual splendor.

Flaming Ears will open in theaters in the US on November 18, 2022.

In the arid Bolivian highlands, an elderly Quechua couple has been living a tranquil life for years. While he takes their small herd of llamas out to graze, she keeps house and walks for miles with the other local women to fetch precious water. When an uncommonly long drought threatens everything they know, Virginio and Sisa must decide whether to stay and maintain their traditional way of life or admit defeat and move in with family members in the city. Their dilemma is precipitated by the arrival of their grandson Clever, who comes to visit with news. The three of them must face, each in their own way, the effects of a changing environment, the importance of tradition, and the meaning of life itself. This visually jaw-dropping debut feature by photographer-turned-filmmaker Alejandro Loayza Grisi is lensed by award-winning cinematographer Barbara Alvarez (Lucrecia Martel’s The Headless Woman) and won the Grand Jury Prize (World Cinema Dramatic) at the Sundance Film Festival.

Utama opened in theaters in the US on November 4, 2022.

Multi-hyphenate, multidisciplinary artist Saul Williams brings his unique dynamism to this Afrofuturist vision, a sci-fi punk musical that’s a visually wondrous amalgamation of themes, ideas, and songs that Williams has explored in his work, notably his 2016 album MartyrLoserKing. Co-directed with the Rwandan-born artist and cinematographer Anisia Uzeyman, the film takes place in the hilltops of Burundi, where a group of escaped coltan miners form an anti-colonialist computer hacker collective. From their camp in an otherworldly e-waste dump, they attempt a takeover of the authoritarian regime exploiting the region's natural resources – and its people. When an intersex runaway and an escaped coltan miner find each other through cosmic forces, their connection sparks glitches within the greater divine circuitry. Set between states of being – past and present, dream and waking life, colonized and free, male and female, memory and prescience – NEPTUNE FROST is an invigorating and empowering direct download to the cerebral cortex and a call to reclaim technology for progressive political ends.

Neptune Frost opened in theaters June 3, 2022. Watch now on Kino Now

Panah Panahi, son and collaborator of embattled Iranian master Jafar Panahi, makes a striking feature debut with this charming, sharp-witted, and deeply moving comic drama. HIT THE ROAD takes the tradition of the Iranian road-trip movie and adds unexpected twists and turns. It follows a family of four – two middle-aged parents and their sons, one a taciturn adult, the other an ebullient six-year-old – as they drive across the Iranian countryside. Over the course of the trip, they bond over memories of the past, grapple with fears of the unknown, and fuss over their sick dog. Unspoken tensions arise and the film builds emotional momentum as it slowly reveals the furtive purpose for their journey. The result is a humanist drama that offers an authentic, raw, and deeply sincere observation of an Iranian family preparing to part with one of their own.

Watch Hit the Road in theaters starting April 22.

Berlin, 1931. Jakob Fabian works in the advertising department of a cigarette factory by day and drifts through bars, brothels and artist studios with his wealthy and debauched friend Labude by night. When Fabian meets the beautiful and confident Cornelia, he manages to shed his pessimistic attitude for a brief moment and falls in love. Not long after, he falls victim to the great wave of layoffs sweeping the city, plunging him back into a depression, while Cornelia’s career as an actress is taking off thanks to her wealthy boss and admirer – an arrangement that Fabian finds difficult to accept. But it’s not just his world that is falling apart… Veteran German director Dominik Graf (Beloved Sisters) wowed audiences at the Berlin Film Festival with this dazzling adaptation of Erich Kästner’s classic of Weimar literature, set amid the twilight hedonism of pre-Nazi Germany.

Watch Fabian: Going to the Dogs in theaters starting February 11.

The first and only narrative feature by American documentarian James Blue (Oscar-nominated for A Few Notes On Our Food Problem), THE OLIVE TREES OF JUSTICE holds the dual distinctions of being the only French film to have been shot during the Algerian War, and to have been the inaugural winner of the Critics prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 1962.

Filmed in Algiers and the surrounding countryside during the late stages of the Algerian War, under the pretext that it was a documentary about the wine industry, the film depicts the Algerian struggle for independence from the French by concentrating on a young “pied-noir” (Frenchman of Algerian descent) who returns to Algiers to visit his dying father. His memories of boyhood on his father's farm are told in flashbacks with a lush serenity that contrasts to the teeming, tank-filled streets of contemporary Algiers.

Giving the film a neorealist tone by shooting in a documentary style and enrolling a cast that consisted largely of non-professional actors, including author Jean Pelegri who wrote the autobiographical novel from which the film is based, Blue tells a powerful story of common people living and struggling in their daily lives, while providing a valuable testimony to the complexity of the Algerian situation in that time period.

Restored in 4K in 2020 by L’Atelier d’Images and Thierry Derocles in collaboration with The James and Richard Blue Foundation with the support of The Film Foundation, James Ivory and CNC – Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée, at L’Image Retrouvée (Paris) from a fine grain print preserved at Les Archives Françaises du Film.

Watch The Olive Trees of Justice in theaters starting January 21.

In this portrait of parental sacrifice and the love of a father for his son, former wrestler Kakhi (played by real-life Olympic champion Levan Tediashvili) embarks on a journey from his home in the Republic of Georgia to visit his son Soso (Giorgi Tabidze) in the Russian-speaking neighborhood of Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. There he finds him living in a shabby boarding house populated by a colorful group of fellow Georgian immigrants. Soso is not studying medicine, as Kakhi believed, but is working for a moving company and has accrued a $14,000 gambling debt to a local Russian mob boss. Kakhi sets his mind to helping his hapless son out of his debt, leading to situations as often comic as they are dire. Lensed by Oscar®-nominated cinematographer Phedon Papamichael (The Trial of the Chicago 7, Nebraska), Levan Koguashvili BRIGHTON 4TH won three major awards at the Tribeca Film Festival – Best International Film, Best Actor, and Best Screenplay – and is Georgia’s official submission to the 94th Academy Awards®.

Watch Brighton 4th in theaters starting January 28.

Léa Seydoux brilliantly holds the center of Bruno Dumont’s unexpected new film, which starts out as a satire of contemporary news media before steadily spiraling out into something richer and darker. Set in contemporary Paris, France stars Seydoux as France de Meurs, a seemingly unflappable superstar TV journalist juggling her studio show, reporting on a distant war, and the rush of family life. Her high-profile world is turned upside down after she injures a delivery man in a traffic accident, triggering a series of self-reckonings and a strange romance that proves impossible to shake. Never one to shy away from provoking his viewers, Dumont’s latest is tragicomic and deliciously ambivalent – a very 21st-century treatment of the difficulty of maintaining identity in a corrosive culture.

Watch France in theaters starting December 10.

A hardworking Maltese fisherman, Jesmark is faced with an agonizing choice. He can repair his leaky luzzu – a traditional, multicolored wooden fishing boat – in the hopes of eking out a meager living at sea for his wife and newborn son, just as his father and grandfather did before him. Or he can decommission it in exchange for an EU payout and cast his lot with a sinister black-market operation that is decimating the Mediterranean fish population and the livelihoods of the local families who depend on it. Luzzu won a Sundance Jury Prize for its nonprofessional lead actor Jesmark Scicluna, a real-life Maltese fisherman, and heralds the arrival of writer-director-editor Alex Camilleri. His gripping film operates in the neorealist tradition of Luchino Visconti, Roberto Rosselini, and the Dardenne brothers and calls to mind the work of the film's producer Ramin Bahrani (Man Push Cart, The White Tiger).

Watch Luzzu in theaters starting October 15.

Master filmmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Pulse, Cure, Tokyo Sonata) won the Silver Lion (Best Director) at the Venice Film Festival for this riveting, gorgeously crafted, old-school Hitchockian thriller shot in stunning 8K. The year is 1940 in Kobe, on the eve of the outbreak of World War II. Local merchant and amateur filmmaker Yusaku (Issey Takahashi, Kill Bill) senses that things are headed in an unsettling direction. Following a trip to Manchuria, he becomes determined to bring to light the things he witnessed there, and secretly filmed. Meanwhile, his wife Satoko (Japan Society’s 2021 Honoree Yû Aoi) receives a visit from her childhood friend, now a military policeman. He warns her about Yusaku’s seditious ways and reveals that a woman her husband brought back from his trip has died. Satoko confronts Yusaku, but when she discovers his true intentions, she is torn between loyalty to her husband, the life they have built, and the country they call home.

Watch Wife of a Spy in theaters starting September 17.

The brilliant work, personal struggles, and cultural impact of iconic American writers Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams explodes onto the screen in this innovative dual-portrait documentary. Filmmaker Lisa Immordino Vreeland masterfully collages a wealth of archival material, including dishy talk show appearances with Dick Cavett and David Frost, with clips from some of the duo’s most memorable movie adaptations: A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Glass Menagerie, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and In Cold Blood. Featuring vibrant voiceover work by award-winning actors Jim Parsons (Capote) and Zachary Quinto (Williams), the film is dripping with wit and wisdom. It is a celebration of both men's fearless candor and often tumultuous friendship that honors how their identity as gay Southerners informed their timeless artistic achievements and relationships with family, colleagues, confidants, and – most significantly – each other.

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Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over by Beth B is the first career-spanning documentary retrospective of Lydia Lunch’s confrontational, acerbic and always electric artistry. As New York City’s preeminent No Wave icon from the late 70’s, Lunch has forged a lifetime of music and spoken word performance devoted to the utter right of any woman to indulge, seek pleasure, and to raise voice in a rage as loud as any man. The film frames Lunch’s work through the lens of the various philosophical themes that have obsessed her for years to enlighten and empower women to voice the unheard and to break the cycle of violence toward women throughout the world. Lydia Lunch is the psycho sexual transgressive who revoked patriarchal expectations of what a female performer might mean, while forging a vocabulary of rare emotional honesty, philosophy and humor.

Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over includes interviews with Lydia Lunch and longtime collaborators and colleagues including: Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth; performance artist Kembra Pfahler; Teenage Jesus bass player, Jim Sclavunos; Donita Sparks from L7; famed DJ and musician Nicolas Jaar; Art Critic Carlo McCormick; Filmmaker Richard Kern and a long list of other groundbreaking artists connected to Lunch’s past and present. Filming in rehearsal and on tour with her band Retrovirus, the behind-the-scenes footage reveals a side of Lunch’s personality that has been unseen. Her warmth and generosity in private interactions along with hilarious banter in the rehearsal studio with band members contrasts wonderfully with her brash, assaultive style of performance. The film is not only about Lunch, but about the scene that she helped spawn, continues to grow and influence, and the creative people who join her in creating a new vision of woman.

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Shot in secret and smuggled out of Iran, There is No Evil is an anthology film comprising four moral tales about men faced with a simple yet unthinkable choice – to follow orders to enforce the death penalty, or resist and risk everything. Whatever they decide, it will directly or indirectly affect their lives, their relationships, and their consciences. Says director Mohammad Rasoulof: "As responsible citizens, do we have a choice when enforcing the inhumane orders of despots? As human beings, to what extent are we to be held responsible for carrying out those orders? Where does the duality of love and moral responsibility leave us?" Suspenseful, mysterious, and shot through with a sense of urgency, Rasoulof’s film is an incisive look at the moral strength and inner humanity of its protagonists. There Is No Evil has won audience awards and festival prizes around the world, including the Golden Bear (Best Film) at the Berlin Film Festival.

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This illuminating documentary explores the life of a unique American artist, a man with a remarkable and unlikely biography. Bill Traylor was born into slavery in 1853 on a cotton plantation in rural Alabama. After the Civil War, Traylor continued to farm the land as a sharecropper until the late 1920s. Aging and alone, he moved to Montgomery and worked odd jobs in the thriving segregated black neighborhood. A decade later, in his late 80s, Traylor became homeless and started to draw and paint, both memories from plantation days and scenes of a radically changing urban culture.

Having witnessed profound social and political change during a life spanning slavery, Reconstruction, Jim Crow segregation, and the Great Migration, Traylor devised his own visual language to translate an oral culture into something original, powerful, and culturally rooted. He made well over a thousand drawings and paintings between 1939-1942. This colorful, strikingly modernist work eventually led him to be recognized as one of America’s greatest self-taught artists and the subject of a Smithsonian retrospective.

Using historical and cultural context, Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts brings the spirit and mystery of Traylor’s incomparable art to life. Making dramatic and surprising use of tap dance and evocative period music, the film balances archival photographs and footage, insightful perspectives from his descendents, and Traylor’s striking drawings and paintings to reveal one of America’s most prominent artists to a wide audience.

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This riveting, Cannes-selected #MeToo drama from debut filmmaker Charlène Favier follows the relationship between a teenage ski prodigy and her predatory instructor, played by frequent Dardenne brothers collaborator Jérémie Renier. In a breakthrough role, Noée Abita plays 15-year-old Lyz, a high school student in the French Alps who has been accepted to an elite ski club known for producing some of the country’s top professional athletes. Taking a chance on his new recruit, ex-champion turned coach Fred decides to mold Lyz into his shining star despite her lack of experience. Under his influence, she will have to endure more than the physical and emotional pressure of the training. Will Lyz’s determination help her escape Fred’s exploitative grip?

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Wojnarowicz: F**k You F*ggot F**ker is a fiery and urgent documentary portrait of downtown New York City artist, writer, photographer, and activist David Wojnarowicz. As New York City became the epicenter of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s, Wojnarowicz weaponized his work and waged war against the establishment’s indifference to the plague until his death from it in 1992 at the age of 37. Exclusive access to his breathtaking body of work – including paintings, journals, and films – reveals how Wojnarowicz emptied his life into his art and activism. Rediscovered answering machine tape recordings and intimate recollections from Fran Lebowitz, Gracie Mansion, Peter Hujar, and other friends and family help present a stirring portrait of this fiercely political, unapologetically queer artist.

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Part psychological horror, part realist drama, this exhilarating debut feature from Shatara Michelle Ford is set against the backdrop of national discussions around inequitable health care and policing, the #metoo movement, and race in America. Test Pattern follows an interracial couple whose relationship is put to the test after a Black woman is sexually assaulted and her white boyfriend drives her from hospital to hospital in search of a rape kit. Their story reveals the systemic injustices and social conditioning women face when navigating sex and consent within the American patriarchy. Winner of top prizes at the BlackStar and New Orleans Film Festivals, this gripping social thriller offers a unique exploration of institutional racism and sexism from a Black woman's point of view. Content warning: This film includes a depiction of sexual assault.

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Based on the best-selling book by Naoki Higashida, later translated into English by author David Mitchell (Cloud Atlas), The Reason I Jump is an immersive cinematic exploration of neurodiversity through the experiences of nonspeaking autistic people from around the world. The film blends Higashida's revelatory insights into autism, written when he was just 13, with intimate portraits of five remarkable young people. It opens a window for audiences into an intense and overwhelming, but often joyful, sensory universe.

Moments in the lives of each of the characters are linked by the journey of a young Japanese boy through an epic landscape; narrated passages from Naoki’s writing reflect on what his autism means to him and others, how his perception of the world differs, and why he acts in the way he does: the reason he jumps. The film distills these elements into a sensually rich tapestry that leads us to Naoki’s core message: not being able to speak does not mean there is nothing to say.

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Serving a life sentence for murder in the early 1970s, music prodigy Ike White had plenty of time to perfect his musical talent, but no hope of putting it to use in the outside world. Ike's skills were exceptional enough, though, that his story captured the media's attention. From this notoriety, he was able to record an album inside the prison with big-time producer Jerry Goldstein (War, Sly and the Family Stone). Superstar Stevie Wonder lobbied successfully for Ike's early release from prison. With an acclaimed album under his belt and the support of Wonder and others in the industry, Ike was poised for stardom. But, instead, he went off the grid for over 40 years. Daniel Vernon's mesmerizing new documentary is unpredictable and moving, echoing the strange journey of Ike White.

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A story about stolen love and stolen identities, literally shot on stolen film...Momma’s Man writer-director Azazel Jacobs’ second feature is an absurdist comedy of errors, a punk-rock slice of DIY rebellion, and a warmhearted frolic that captures the “amour fou spirit of the early French New Wave” (The Village Voice). Hot-tempered Echo Park slacker Rodolfo Cano (Jacobs) enlists in the army to escape a meaningless existence with his free-spirited girlfriend Diaz (Diaz). When his call-for-service letter somehow winds up in the hands of another Rodolfo Cano (Gerardo Naranjo, director of Miss Bala), a quietly dignified loner who lives on a sailboat, their three lives intersect in odd and beautifully unexpected ways. Evoking the inventive gags of Chaplin and Jacques Tati, plus the deadpan minimalism of Kaurismäki and Jarmusch, The GoodTimesKid “finds poetry in wordless scenes of observation” (The New York Times).

The GoodTimesKid is available on a new 2K restoration 2020 Blu-ray and DVD from Kino Lorber with a new audio commentary by director Azazel Jacobs, production stills, a scrapbook gallery and a selection of extended takes. It's also available to watch on Kino Now.

Bumped from a flight back to Los Angeles and the life, wife, and infant daughter that await him there, Mikey (Matt Boren) returns to his childhood home, a cluttered, cocoon-like Manhattan loft presided over by his bohemian parents. "You can stay here as long as you want," Mikey's mother tells him. But in Azazel Jacobs' Momma's Man, what begins as a respite from adult responsibility becomes a premature mid-life crisis. Re-installed in a household saturated with two generations of bric-a-brac evoking days gone by, Mikey starts to regress and drift back to an awkward youth he never outgrew.

To realize this "modestly scaled movie with a heart the size of Ritz" (New York Times), writer-director Jacobs cast his real life parents, artist Flo Jacobs and underground film legend Ken Jacobs (Star Spangled to Death), as Mikey's benevolent mother and father, and the Jacobs' family apartment as an archive of the unconscious where free floating anxiety renders Mikey a prisoner of his own nostalgia. Deftly balancing "melancholy emotional realities with unexpected moments of Chaplinesque comedy" (Variety), Momma's Man is a funny, touching, and bracingly honest look at the pleasures and perils of yearning for the imperfect past.

Momma's Man is available on a new 2020 Blu-ray and DVD from Kino Lorber with a new audio commentary by director Azazel Jacobs, a behind-the-scenes documentary, Jacobs' first film Rain Building Music (1991), an audio conversation with Azazel Jacobs and his parents and more. It's also available to watch on Kino Now.

Born to Be follows the work of Dr. Jess Ting (he/him) at the groundbreaking Mount Sinai Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery. There, for the first time ever in New York City, transgender and gender non-conforming people have access to quality transition-related care. With extraordinary access, this remarkable documentary offers an intimate look at how one doctor’s work impacts the lives of his patients as well as how his journey from renowned plastic surgeon to pioneering gender-affirming specialist has led to his own transformation.

Dr. Ting's patients are as diverse as the city itself. Cashmere (she/her), decades sober and with a zest for life, offers an invaluable queer history lesson as she looks back on the tumultuous existence she once led on the streets of New York. Jordan (they/them) is non-binary and, with their nurturing partner by their side, finally has the support they need to take the next step in their transition. The loquacious Garnet (she/her) moved to New York City to transition and has the full support of her family, but still struggles with depression. Shawn (he/him) signed up for a new type of gender-affirming surgery pioneered by Dr. Ting with the help of brave patients like him. And heart- and scene-stealer Mahogany (she/her) was once a successful male model, but sacrificed her career to begin life as the woman she is. Through their stories, their joys and hardships, the film addresses the nuances and complexities of gender, exploring key issues around the human right to define gender for oneself.

Get Born to Be on Digital or DVD.

Epicentro is an immersive and metaphorical portrait of post-colonial, "utopian" Cuba, where the 1898 explosion of the USS Maine still resonates. This Big Bang ended Spanish colonial dominance in the Americas and ushered in the era of the American Empire. At the same time and place, a powerful tool of conquest was born: cinema as propaganda. In his latest film, Oscar-nominated director Hubert Sauper (Darwin's Nightmare) explores a century of interventionism and myth-making together with the extraordinary people of Havana—who he calls "young prophets"—to interrogate time, imperialism and cinema itself.

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Filmed at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival in Rhode Island and directed by world-renowned photographer Bert Stern, Jazz on a Summer's Day features intimate performances by an all-star line-up of musical legends including Louis Armstrong, Thelonious Monk, Gerry Mulligan, Anita O'Day, Chuck Berry, Dinah Washington, and closes with a beautiful rendition of The Lord's Prayer by Mahalia Jackson at midnight to usher in Sunday morning.

The film has been beautifully and extensively restored in 4K from the best surviving vault elements by IndieCollect.

Get Jazz on a Summer's Day on Digital, Blu-ray or DVD.

Best known for his avant-garde meta-documentary Symbiopsychotaxiplasm, William Greaves (1926–2014) was also the director of over 100 documentary films, the majority focused on African American history, politics, and culture. Nationtime is a report on the National Black Political Convention held in Gary, Indiana, in 1972, a historic event that gathered black voices from across the political spectrum, among them Jesse Jackson, Dick Gregory, Coretta Scott King, Richard Hatcher, Amiri Baraka, Charles Diggs, and H. Carl McCall. Narrated by Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte, the film was considered too militant for television broadcast at the time and has since circulated only in an edited 58-minute version. This new 4K restoration from IndieCollect, with funding from Jane Fonda and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, returns the film to its original 80-minute length and visual quality.

Watch Nationtime on Kino Marquee.

Adapted from a 1909 novel by Jack London yet set in a provocatively unspecified moment in Italy’s history, Martin Eden is a passionate and enthralling narrative fresco in the tradition of the great Italian classics. Martin (played by the marvelously committed Luca Marinelli) is a self-taught proletarian with artistic aspirations who hopes that his dreams of becoming a writer will help him rise above his station and marry a wealthy young university student (Jessica Cressy). The dissatisfactions of working-class toil and bourgeois success lead to political awakening and destructive anxiety in this enveloping, superbly mounted bildungsroman. Winner of the Best Actor prize at the Venice Film Festival and the Platform Prize at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Watch Martin Eden on Kino Marquee.

This November, our streaming service Kino Film Collection is celebrating its one-year anniversary! To honor this milestone, we’re turning it over to our staff, who know and love the Kino Film Collection library better than anyone. In this series, you’ll discover standout titles with their (very passionate) personal recommendations.

What better way to kick things off than with Kino Lorber’s chairman and CEO Richard Lorber himself? Read the article here or click on Read Notes to see his thoughts on each film.

• Dawson City: Frozen Time

  Richard Lorber: “One of the most fascinating films that I’ve come across is Bill Morrison’s documentary Dawson City: Frozen Time. This is a really amazing work of cinematic archeology. It follows the discovery of hundreds of canisters of films that were discarded in Canada, in the Yukon, at the end of the distribution line, when prints were bicycled from theater to theater. The film presents these treasures of lost cinema from the early part of the century, along with the narrative of how they were lost and rediscovered. It’s an analysis of the whole apparatus of film distribution. So it's both metacinema and an inquiry into the economy of film exhibition. It’s a film of discoveries – personal discoveries that you see looking at the films and discovery of the ideas that led to what is now contemporary film distribution in the most analog sense, from the past to what is now digitally new. So it's something that I would consider a key primer for anyone inquiring about the history of film.”

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• The Forbidden Room

  Richard Lorber: “I will veer from that into something that's also true metacinema, but in the most playful, surrealistic form that I can imagine. This is the work of the great auteur Guy Maddin. Guy's Forbidden Room from 2015 is inexplicable. It's a surrealistic fantasy for which he recruited various talents like Charlotte Rampling and Udo Kier and a whole bunch of other celebrities to participate in his fever dream of cinema. It looks very distorted and rugged and crude, and I can't even begin to describe the narrative, but it's something that is just totally eye-filling and wondrous, and you just have to let your mind roam freely over his images and not try to make any sense out of it. But it all seems to amount to a whole greater than the sum of its parts. I can't say much more about it except that it was a total delight to discover, and it's the kind of film that you can watch again and again and see new things and get new ideas and come up with new interpretations. It's a film made of many films and many ideas, and I recommend it strongly.”

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• Diamantino

  Richard Lorber: “I'm always looking for films that are pushing the envelope, taking the concept of entertainment into dangerous zones of experimentation and extravagance and using the medium in new ways to uncover new ideas. With more of a narrative tilt than either of the other two, the film Diamantino by Abrantes and Schmidt is an interesting film that won the Grand Prix in Cannes in 2018, but more significantly it won the Palm Dog, the award for the best dog in a film at the Cannes Film Festival. [Laughs.] It’s about a pea-brained soccer star, who is having an identity crisis and is being manipulated by his menacing, demonic sisters, who are trying to control his fate and his fortune. It's a film that keeps tripping over its own premise and it's hysterically funny, visually original, and a delight for the eyes and for the mind. It takes the popular concept of soccer and turns it into kind of a surrealistic carnival of ideas and characters.”

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• The Trouble with You

  Richard Lorber: “Another film that is narratively convoluted, but exploratory, is a wonderful French film called The Trouble With You. This is a film by Pierre Salvadori, a French filmmaker who was very acclaimed for a film he did in 1995 called Les Apprentis. The Trouble With You has the most ridiculously complex storyline with characters who interact with each other and change identities. It uses the cinematic skills that he has as a filmmaker to invert all the usual tropes of the French genre of the policier, the traditional crime thriller that the French are really brilliant at and know so well. It stars Adèle Haenel. It was produced by David Thion, who was nominated for an Academy Award® last year as the producer of Anatomy of a Fall. The Trouble With You was a film that for a variety of reasons was kind of forgotten about and unsung, but it remains one of my most delightful experiences. It is just uproariously funny. It's poignant. It's a love story. It's a crime thriller. It's really a cinematic delight.”

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• Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell

  Richard Lorber: “So going from the ridiculous to the sublime, here is my final pick, which is one of my all-time favorites: Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell, which won the Caméra d’Or at Cannes last year. It’s a film by Phạm Thiên Ân and it is a story of psychological immersion. It's a tale of search. It's a spiritual journey. It's a three-hour film that is riveting and visually mesmerizing and brings you into another lane, another level of consciousness in my own experience. It starts with a motorcycle accident where a man's sister is killed and her young child survives and the protagonist of the film takes it upon himself to raise the child. This leads them to travel through the countryside in Vietnam in search for the man’s missing brother. But more importantly, it's a spiritual search for his own sense of self and identity. The colors, the shots, there are shots that are continuous shots that go on for 20 minutes. As you give yourself to the cinematic spectacle of the film, the visual splendor of it, you kind of just lose all sense of time and you begin to reflect on your own sense of self and where you are in the greatest scheme of the widening universe. It's a film that has found a high level of praise both from critics and audiences, and is right now one of the nominees for the Gotham Award for Best International Feature. So when you have three hours to spare, try it out. The time will fly.”

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An in-progess list of all films being released in theaters by Kino Lorber and Zeitgeist Films in 2024.

To browse all our releases and back catalogue, visit our website.

• Soundtrack to a Coup d'État
• Oh, Canada
• Daytime Revolution
• The Sacrifice
• The Falling Star
• Sebastian
• Green Border
• The Blues Under the Skin
• Prey for Rock & Roll
• How to Come Alive with Norman Mailer

...plus 15 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

A comprehensive list of every 4K UHD disc released by Kino Lorber starting from 2019 to present. Newest releases first. To purchase visit our website.

• Murder on the Orient Express

  Available 09/24/2024

• The Ladykillers

  Available 09/24/2024

• Cowboys & Aliens

  Available 09/17/2024

• Dracula's Dog

  Aka ZOLTAN... HOUND OF DRACULA.
  Available 09/10/2024

• The Antichrist

  Available 09/10/2024

• Link

  Available 09/10/2024

• Last Year at Marienbad

  Available 08/27/2024

• Alphaville

  Available 08/27/2024

• Sudden Death

  Available 08/27/2024

• Prime Cut

  Available 08/20/2024

...plus 85 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

August's releases include 4K UHD editions of four mid-century French classics: Jean-Pierre Melville’s BOB LE FLAMBEUR and LE DOULOS, Jean-Luc Godard's ALPHAVILLE and Alain Resnais’ LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD. In addition on 4K UHD we have Michael Ritchie's PRIME CUT, Jean-Claude Van Damme in SUDDEN DEATH, and a thriller double-bill of AND SOON THE DARKNESS and SUDDEN TERROR (aka EYEWITNESS). In addition we have Blu-rays of a quintet of 1970s insect and amphibian-centric monster movies and Blu-Rays of a couple of major 2024 theatrical releases: GREEN BORDER and BANEL & ADAMA.

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• Bob le Flambeur
• Le Doulos
• Alphaville
• Last Year at Marienbad
• Prime Cut
• Sudden Death
• And Soon the Darkness
• Eyewitness
• 99 River Street
• Navajo Joe

...plus 15 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

July's releases include 4K UHD releases of '80s horror classics CANNIBAL APOCALYPSE and NIGHTMARE BEACH, the Disco extravaganza CAN'T STOP THE MUSIC, the Kevin Costner thriller NO WAY OUT, and the Kevin Kline comedy IN & OUT.

Other highlights include Blu-ray releases of mid-century dramas COME BACK, LITTLE SHEBA, THE COUNTRY GIRL and THE ROSE TATTOO, a trio of 1990s Patrice Leconte gems, Billy Woodberry's 1983 BLESS THEIR LITTLE HEARTS and Ernst Lubitsch's 1918 CARMEN among many others. As well as a new box set of Columbo episodes: COLUMBO: THE RETURN (not pictured).

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• Cannibal Apocalypse
• Nightmare Beach
• Can't Stop the Music
• In & Out
• No Way Out
• Come Back, Little Sheba
• The Country Girl
• The Rose Tattoo
• When Eight Bells Toll
• Underground Aces

...plus 13 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

June's releases include 4K UHD releases of Ang Lee's BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN, Don Siegel's INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS, Gene Hackman in NARROW MARGIN, Jeff Bridges and Tommy Lee Jones in BLOWN AWAY, and Ray Liotta in TURBULENCE. Also Blu-ray releases of Orson Welles' MACBETH, Raoul Walsh's PURSUED, and Ernst Lubisch's ANNA BOLEYN among many other classics.

Also coming in June are a number of recent theatrical releases on Blu-ray and DVD including Ken Loach's THE OLD OAK, LOST SOULZ, and REMEMBERING GENE WILDER. Plus two Blu-ray documentary collections of Arthur Dong’s Asian American Stories (including HOLLYWOOD CHINESE) and LGBTQ Stories (including COMING OUT UNDER FIRE) and three films by Patricia Rozema on Blu-ray (including WHEN NIGHT IS FALLING).

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• Brokeback Mountain
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers
• Narrow Margin
• Blown Away
• Turbulence
• Macbeth
• Pursued
• Anna Boleyn
• The North Star
• Paternity

...plus 16 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

April's releases include 4K UHD releases of HIGH NOON and Tarkovsky's NOSTALGHIA, and Blu-ray releases of films by Fritz Lang, Alan J. Pakula and Edgar G. Ulmer, a pair of FLETCH comedies, a double feature of 1950s burlesque grindhouse classics starring Bettie Page, and (not pictured) the 6th season of MONK and a collection of Vitagraph comedies. For info visit kinolorber.com/shop.

• High Noon
• Nostalgia
• Secret Beyond the Door
• Starting Over
• Bluebeard
• Fletch
• Fletch Lives
• True Love
• The Minus Man
• You Never Can Tell

...plus 5 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

March's releases include 4K UHD releases of Jonathan Demme's MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE, as well as CHANGING LANES, PAINT YOUR WAGON and NORTH DALLAS FORTY, and Blu-ray releases of films by Sergio Leone, Walter Hill, Mario Bava and Arthur Penn and many more. Also the 3-film box set FILM NOIR: THE DARK SIDE OF CINEMA XVIII which includes CITY OF SHADOWS. For info visit kinolorber.com/shop.

• The Manchurian Candidate
• Changing Lanes
• Paint Your Wagon
• North Dallas Forty
• Duck, You Sucker
• The Lion in Winter
• Death Rides a Horse
• The Long Riders
• Brain Donors
• The Whip and the Body

...plus 5 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

May's releases include 4K UHD releases of Abel Ferrara's BAD LIEUTENANT and John Waters’ CRY-BABY as well as Blu-ray box sets of William Powell’s Philo Vance films (including THE CANARY MURDER CASE), a Republic Pictures Horror Collection (including THE LADY AND THE MONSTER), a Sci-Fi Chillers Collection (including THE UNKNOWN TERROR), and a documentary collection of Arthur Dong’s Asian American Stories (including HOLLYWOOD CHINESE). Plus a number of recent theatrical releases on Blu-ray and DVD and (not pictured) the 7th season of MONK on Blu-ray and the complete series of THE KILLING on DVD.

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• Bad Lieutenant
• Cry-Baby
• Back from the Dead
• The Lawyer
• Daisy Miller
• Big Man on Campus
• Revenge of the Ninja
• The Perfect Weapon
• Death Machine
• The Canary Murder Case

...plus 13 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

A list of all the films released in theaters by Kino Lorber and Zeitgeist Films in 2023.

To browse all our releases and back catalogue, visit our website.

• Godard Cinema
• Trailer of a Film That Will Never Exist: Phony Wars
• La Syndicaliste
• Ever Deadly
• Four Daughters
• Story Ave
• Radical Wolfe
• Scrapper
• Tokyo Pop
• Final Cut

...plus 16 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

A preview of Kino Lorber's restorations available worldwide.

• Variety
• Alma's Rainbow
• Losing Ground
• Tokyo Pop
• Flaming Ears
• Come Back, Africa
• Kamikaze Hearts
• The Soldier's Tale
• Neptune Frost
• The Man Who Envied Women

...plus 14 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

A list of all films released in theaters by Kino Lorber and Zeitgeist Films in 2022.

To browse all our releases and back catalogue, visit our website.

• Neptune Frost
• Hit the Road
• Murina
• Ahed's Knee
• Hold Me Tight
• Framing Agnes
• Utama
• Costa Brava, Lebanon
• Alma's Rainbow
• Flaming Ears

...plus 26 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

We're kicking off our celebration of Black History Month with a selection of films by visionary Black directors like Julie Dash, Bill Gunn, Shatara Michelle Ford, Charles Burnett, Raoul Peck, and Kathleen Collins, all available to rent or own digitally on Kino Now.

• Aya of Yop City
• Bless Their Little Hearts
• Can You Bring It: Bill T. Jones and D-Man in the Waters
• The Cruz Brothers and Miss Malloy
• Daughters of the Dust
• Elza
• The Force
• Ganja & Hess
• Hyenas
• Losing Ground

...plus 15 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Kino Lorber is excited to announce 20 new films now available to stream for free on Kino Cult, an ad-supported streaming destination for lovers of horror and genre cinema. These films join a growing list of hundreds of new and rare cult hits, all presented in beautiful high definition. Kino Cult also offers an ad-free subscription plan for $4.99 per month.

• Cub
• The Dead Ones
• The Demoniacs
• Dracula's Fiancée
• The Flesh and Blood Show
• For Men Only
• Cruel Passion
• Mercy, the Mummy Mumbled
• Peek-a-Boo
• Permissive

...plus 9 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

A running list of all films released in theaters and/or virtual cinemas by Kino Lorber and Zeitgeist Films in 2021.

To browse all our releases and back catalogue, visit our website. For theatrical and virtual cinema releases, visit Kino Marquee. For VOD, visit Kino Now. To browse our collection of Blu-ray and DVD releases, visit our shop.

• France
• Luzzu
• Hive
• Wife of a Spy
• The Village Detective: A Song Cycle
• On Broadway
• Never Gonna Snow Again
• Can You Bring It: Bill T. Jones and D-Man in the Waters
• Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over
• Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation

...plus 18 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

A comprehensive list of all films released in theaters and/or virtual cinemas by Kino Lorber and Zeitgeist Films in 2020.

To browse all our releases and back catalogue, visit our website. For theatrical and virtual cinema releases, visit Kino Marquee. For VOD, visit Kino Now. To browse our collection of Blu-ray and DVD releases, visit our shop.

• Martin Eden
• Bacurau
• Beanpole
• The Changin' Times of Ike White
• Born to Be
• Nationtime
• Native Son
• Oliver Sacks: His Own Life
• Buoyancy
• Epicentro

...plus 20 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

We have distributed five of the last six winners of the Golden Bear (Best Film) at the Berlin International Film Festival. There is No Evil will be released in early 2021.

• There Is No Evil
• Synonyms
• Touch Me Not
• Fire at Sea
• Taxi

Oh, Canada is a moving reflection on life, art, and legacy that reunites Paul Schrader and Richard Gere for the first time in over 40 years since American Gigolo. See it in theaters starting December 6.

Aging filmmaker Leonard Fife (Richard Gere), still fiery despite his battle with illness, wants to tell his life story, unfiltered, before it’s too late. As the director of acclaimed documentary exposés, he has much to be proud of, but his Vietnam War draft-dodging and his past relationships harbor thorny truths. Leonard sits for an extended interview with his former student Malcolm (Michael Imperioli), relating candid stories about his younger self (Jacob Elordi) in the tumultuous 1960s and beyond. At Leonard’s insistence, his wife and indispensable artistic partner, Emma (Uma Thurman), bears witness to it all. His successes are held up against his failings and, as the man is cleansed of the myth, Leonard must confront what is left. Paul Schrader’s adaptation of Russell Banks’s novel sees him reunited with Gere more than 40 years after American Gigolo, and together they deliver a moving and deeply personal take on this story of an artist reflecting on a lifetime of storytelling.

Johan Grimonprez's Sundance award-winner is nominated for a Gotham Award and four Critic's Choice Doc Awards, is part of DOC NYC and IDA's shortlists, and is considered one of the frontrunners in the Best Documentary Oscar® race.

Now in theaters: bit.ly/soundtracktoacoupfilm

United Nations, 1960: the Global South ignites a political earthquake, jazz musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach crash the Security Council, Nikita Khrushchev bangs his shoe, and the U.S. State Department swings into action, sending jazz ambassador Louis Armstrong to the Congo to deflect attention from the CIA-backed coup. Director Johan Grimonprez explores a moment when jazz, colonialism, and espionage collided, constructing a riveting historical rollercoaster that illuminates the political machinations behind the 1961 assassination of Congolese independence leader Patrice Lumumba. The result is a revelatory documentary richly illustrated by eyewitness accounts, official government memos, testimonies from mercenaries and CIA operatives, speeches from Lumumba himself, and a veritable canon of jazz icons. Sundance award winner Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat interrogates colonial history to tell an urgent and timely story that resonates more than ever in today’s geopolitical climate.

Mikko Mäkelä's nuanced, sexy, and tender portrait of a young writer who moonlights as an online sex worker is now in theaters: bit.ly/sebastianfilm

Max is a 25-year-old writer living in London and paying his dues working at a literary magazine. On the cusp of finding success in the local lit scene, by night Max moonlights as a sex worker in order to research his debut novel. What begins as a few furtive meetings soon becomes a secret nocturnal life as his alter ego “Sebastian.” In a fearless lead performance from newcomer Ruraridh Mollica, Max’s emotions cycle through ecstasy, shame, and exhilarating liberation. Far from simply informing his autobiographical fiction, Max’s experiences as Sebastian awaken a deeper sense of self, unshackled from societal expectations – all the while threatening his carefully-earned status in the literary community. This Sundance Film Festival selection from writer-director Mikko Mäkelä explores the transgressive power of queer sexuality and the transformative impact that can result from embracing a new identity.

From three-time Oscar® nominee Agnieszka Holland, GREEN BORDER weaves the stories of migrants, border guards, and activists into a taut, harrowing thriller.

In the treacherous and swampy forests that make up the so-called “green border” between Belarus and Poland, refugees from the Middle East and Africa are lured by government propaganda promising easy passage to the European Union. Unable to cross into Europe and unable to turn back, they find themselves trapped in a rapidly escalating geopolitical stand-off. An unflinching depiction of the migrant crisis captured in stark black-and-white, this riveting film explores the intractable issue from multiple perspectives: a Syrian family fleeing ISIS caught between cruel border guards in both countries; young guards instructed to brutalize and reject the migrants; and activists who aid the refugees at great personal risk.

Thirty years after Europa Europa, three-time Oscar® nominee Agnieszka Holland brings a masterful eye for realism and deep compassion to this blistering critique of a humanitarian calamity that continues to unfold. Winner of the Special Jury Prize at the 2023 Venice Film Festival, Green Border is a poignant and essential work of cinema that opens our eyes and speaks to the heart, challenging viewers to reflect on the moral choices that fall to ordinary people every day.

Opens June 21 at Film Forum in New York and June 28 at Laemmle Theatres in Los Angeles with Agnieszka Holland in person for Q&As before expanding nationwide. Watch our brand new trailer.

“A strikingly beautiful work.” – Wendy Ide, Screen International

“Breathtaking, sublime." – Todd McCarthy, Deadline

"A powerful tale of survival.” – Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter

"Meditative and deeply romantic." – Marya E. Gates, RogerEbert.com

In the arid Bolivian highlands, an elderly Quechua couple has been living a tranquil life for years. While he takes their small herd of llamas out to graze, she keeps house and walks for miles with the other local women to fetch precious water. When an uncommonly long drought threatens everything they know, Virginio and Sisa must decide whether to stay and maintain their traditional way of life or admit defeat and move in with family members in the city. Their dilemma is precipitated by the arrival of their grandson Clever, who comes to visit with news. The three of them must face, each in their own way, the effects of a changing environment, the importance of tradition, and the meaning of life itself. This visually jaw-dropping debut feature by photographer-turned-filmmaker Alejandro Loayza Grisi is lensed by award-winning cinematographer Barbara Alvarez (Lucrecia Martel’s The Headless Woman) and won the Grand Jury Prize (World Cinema Dramatic) at the Sundance Film Festival and is Bolivia's Official Submission to the Academy Awards®.

UTAMA opens this weekend at the Film Forum in New York, attended by filmmaker Alejandro Loayza Grisi for Q&As, before expanding to select cities nationwide. Click here to find a theater near you.

A Kino Lorber release.

“Nina Menkes’ eye-opening documentary will forever change how you look at films.”
– Kate Erbland, Indiewire

“An expansive documentary on the gendered nature of film language.” – Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter

"Crucially, Menkes' documentary is not calling for cancellation. Viewers are meant to wrestle with this film, not passively consume a simple message – and they'll leave invigorated." – Violet Lucca, Bust

"A documentary for any woman who ever wanted, just even for a moment, to throw a grenade at the canon." – Fionnuala Halligan, Screen Daily

“If the camera is predatory, then the culture is predatory.” In this eye-opening documentary, celebrated independent filmmaker Nina Menkes explores the sexual politics of cinematic shot design. Using clips from hundreds of movies we all know and love – from Metropolis to Vertigo to Phantom Thread – Menkes convincingly makes the argument that shot design is gendered. Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power illuminates the patriarchal narrative codes that hide within supposedly “classic” set-ups and camera angles, and demonstrates how women are frequently displayed as objects for the use, support, and pleasure of male subjects. Building on the essential work of Laura Mulvey and other feminist writers, Menkes shows how these not-so-subtle embedded messages affect and intersect with the twin epidemics of sexual abuse and assault, as well as employment discrimination against women, especially in the film industry. The film features interviews with an all-star cast of women and non-binary industry professionals including Julie Dash, Penelope Spheeris, Charlyne Yi, Joey Soloway, Catherine Hardwicke, Eliza Hittman, and Rosanna Arquette. The result is an electrifying call-to-action that will fundamentally change the way you see, and watch, movies.

BRAINWASHED: SEX-CAMERA-POWER opens this weekend at DCTV's Firehouse Cinema in New York and Laemmle Theatres in LA before expanding to select cities nationwide. Find a theater near you at kinomarquee.com.

A Kino Lorber release.

"Revelatory. A Black film unlike any other in its time." – Jourdain Searles, Hyperallergic

"Passionate, buoyant, alive." – Angelica Jade Bastién, New York Magazine

“More than just a cinematic feast; it’s a revelation…A nearly lost masterwork.”- Richard Brody, The New Yorker

The inimitable Kathleen Collins' second film tells the story of two remarkable people, married and hurtling toward a crossroads in their lives: Sara Rogers, a Black professor of philosophy, is embarking on an intellectual quest just as her painter husband, Victor, sets off on an exploration of joy. Victor decides to rent a country house away from the city, but the couple’s summer idyll becomes complicated by his involvement with a younger model. One of the very first fictional features by an African-American woman, Losing Ground remains a stunning and powerful work of art for being a funny, brilliant, and personal member of indie cinema canon.

Restoration by Yale Film Archive, The Film Foundation, and Milestone Films, supervised by Brian Meacham, with transfer supervised by Ronald K. Gray.

Losing Ground opens this weekend at IFC Center in New York before expanding to select cities nationwide. Find a theater near you at kinomarquee.com.

A Kino Lorber release.

“Nabil Ayouch’s exuberant musical declares that... hip-hop isn't dead; it’s just been hiding in a Moroccan slum.” – Austin Considine, The New York Times

“Infects the audience with its passion and the unshakable belief that a person who has self-confidence and self-expression can really change society.” – Deborah Young, The 
Hollywood Reporter

“Defiant, uninhibited and full of attitude.” – Wendy Ide, Screen Daily

“Could be a rallying cry for any youth activism group, anywhere in the world. It’s hard to
argue when the results are this energetic, this empowering and this irresistibly youthful.” – Jessica Kiang, Variety

Director Nabil Ayouch (Razzia, Horses of God) drew on his own experience opening a youth cultural center in Casablanca for this story of a former rapper named Anas who takes a job teaching hip hop in an underprivileged neighborhood. Despite differences in identity, religion, and politics, Anas encourages his students to bond together and break free from the weight of restrictive traditions in order to follow their passion and express themselves through the arts. Featuring a dynamic ensemble of first-time actors, many of them students of the real-life cultural center where the film was shot, Casablanca Beats is a vibrant and inspiring coming-of-age hip hop musical with a decidedly feminist edge. Mixing intimate yet high stakes drama with infectious musical sequences, the film transports audiences to a lively and contemporary Casablanca, far from the clichés about the Arab world. Morocco’s official submission to the 94th Academy Awards® offers a refreshing dose of youthful inspiration alongside a powerful message about the liberating power of self-expression.

CASABLANCA BEATS opens in theaters this weekend at IFC Center in New York and next weekend at Laemmle in Los Angeles before expanding to select cities nationwide. Find a theater near you at kinomarquee.com.

A Kino Lorber release.

"One of the best films of the year." – Brian Tallerico, RogerEbert.com

“A gorgeously shot memory piece. Vicky Krieps in a tour-de-force performance. Feels like being transported into a trance-like reverie.” – Boyd van Hoeij, The Hollywood Reporter

"Krieps’ performance is a standout in its profound, elegiac devastation—one not seen since Juliette Binoche’s turn in Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Three Colors: Blue." – Katarina Docalovich, Paste Magazine

In Hold Me Tight, Vicky Krieps (Phantom Thread, Bergman Island) gives another riveting performance as Clarisse, a woman on the run from her family for reasons that aren’t immediately clear. Widely renowned as one of France’s great contemporary actors but less well-known in North America for his equally impressive work behind the camera, Mathieu Amalric’s sixth feature as director is his most ambitious to date. This virtuosic, daringly fluid portrait of a woman in crisis alternates between Clarisse’s adventures on the road and scenes of her abandoned husband Marc (Arieh Worthalter) as he struggles to take care of their children at home. Amalric’s film keeps viewers uncertain as to the reality of what they’re seeing until the final moments of this moving, unpredictable, and richly rewarding family drama.

Mathieu Amalric's HOLD ME TIGHT opens in theaters this weekend at Film at Lincoln Center and Angelika Film Center in New York, SIFF Cinema in Seattle, Gene Siskel Film Center in Chicago, and Minneapolis Film Society in Minnneapolis before expanding to select cities nationwide. Find a theater near you at kinomarquee.com.

A Kino Lorber release.

"Finds grace in stolen moments of tenderness... amid a landscape of violence and repression, they shine like beacons of what could be." – Beatrice Loayza, The New York Times

"Achingly beautiful and incredibly erotic." – Manuel Betancourt, Variety

“Tackled with great delicacy and shored up by intense performances.” – Vittoria Scarpa, Cineuropa

“Remember when we talked about being alone in the world?” Sara is a genderfluid blue-collar worker who lives as her male birth identity Robson by day while caring for her religious grandmother in Sobradinho, a small town in the northeast of Brazil. Daniel, who teaches in a police academy in southern metropolis Curitiba, has been placed on unpaid leave after a violent incident that’s all over the news. The only thing holding him together is his online romance with Sara, whom he has never met in person. When she suddenly disappears, Daniel drives 2,000 miles across Brazil to find her. He posts Sara’s picture all over town but no one recognizes her, until he receives a mysterious call from someone claiming to know her and asking to meet. What follows is a journey of the heart that will change Sara and Daniel forever. In the tradition of A Fantastic Woman and Strawberry and Chocolate, the film is both a swooning sun-baked romance and a triumphant affirmation of queer love and humanity at a time when LGBTQ+ rights are increasingly imperiled everywhere. An official selection of the Venice Film Festival and Brazil’s official submission to the 94th Academy Awards®, Private Desert boasts lush cinematography and a haunting atmospheric score. You’ll never hear “Total Eclipse of the Heart” the same again.

PRIVATE DESERT opens in theaters this weekend at Quad Cinema in New York before expanding to select cities nationwide. Find a theater near you at kinomarquee.com.

A Kino Lorber release.

“A film that is more emotionally than sexually voyeuristic.” – Lee Marshall, Screen Daily

"A sweet documentary portrait of two people testing the limits of sexual desire.” – Dmitry Samanov, Chicago Reader

Pet shop owners by day and swingers by night, Italian couple Hermes and Betta are, in most ways, regular people. In this honest, sex-positive look at the swinger lifestyle, director and cinematographer Mauro Russo Rouge is invited into their lives with no moment off-limits, crafting a portrait of a relationship that gives equal weight to the mundane yet strangely fascinating logistics of organizing sex parties as it does to the act itself. Shot in a rich visual style that is deeply sensual without ever feeling vulgar or exploitative, the film is "more emotionally than sexually voyeuristic” (Screen Daily), an intimate exploration of the deep love and complex challenges one polyamorous couple shares. Bloom Up: A Swinger Couple Story, premiered at the Hot Docs Film Festival and has a suggested rating of R / 18+.

Bloom Up: A Swinger Couple Story opens this weekend at Quad Cinema in New York and Hot Docs Cinema in Toronto before expanding to select cities nationwide. Find a theater near you at kinomarquee.com.

A Kino Lorber release.

“A gorgeous clarion call for our young Black girls, heralding the community, creativity and confidence that is the pride of our culture.” – Ava DuVernay, IndieWire

“Timely and urgent. A complex portrait of Black womanhood that was all too uncommon for the era.” –  Ronda Racha Penrice, The Wrap

“An integral part of ’90s Black cinema.”  – Jamil David, Shadow and Act

Ayoka Chenzira’s overlooked classic, newly restored and ripe for rediscovery, Alma’s Rainbow (1993) is a coming-of-age comedy-drama about three Black women living in Brooklyn. Ayoka Chenzira’s feature film explores the life of teenager Rainbow Gold (Victoria Gabrielle Platt) who is entering womanhood and navigating conversations and experiences around standards of beauty, self-image, and the rights Black women have over their bodies. Rainbow attends a strict parochial school, studies dance, and is just becoming aware of boys. She lives with her strait-laced mother Alma Gold (Kim Weston-Moran), who runs a hair salon in the parlor of their home. When Alma’s free-spirited sister Ruby (Mizan Kirby) arrives from Paris after a 10-year absence, the sisters clash over what constitutes the “proper” direction Rainbow’s life should take. Alma has fooled herself into believing she has no need of male companionship and advises her daughter to follow her example. Ruby encourages both her niece and her sister to embrace life – and love – fully and joyfully. Alma’s Rainbow highlights a multi-layered Black women’s world where the characters live, love, and wrestle with what it means to exert and exercise their agency.

New 4K restoration by Milestone Films, the Academy Film Archive, and Film Foundation

ALMA'S RAINBOW opens this weekend at BAM in New York before expanding to select cities nationwide. Find a theater near you at kinomarquee.com.

A Kino Lorber release.

"A terrific feature debut… works both as a compelling domestic drama and an elegant political allegory." – Wendy Ide, Screen Daily

“A stellar near-future family drama. A film worth savoring.” – Andrew Crump, The Playlist

"A heartfelt charmer." – Jessica Kiang, Variety

“Nadine Labaki and Saleh Bakri shine without ever removing us from the film’s emotional core. Evokes a sense of encroaching disaster… and the exasperation of one family trying at all costs to hold onto what they’ve built.” – Jay Weissberg, MIME

Winner: Audience Award – BFI London Film Festival, NETPAC Award – Toronto International Film Festival 
 
Official Selection: Venice Film Festival

Costa Brava, Lebanon captures the joys and frustrations of a close-knit family with an intimacy that feels startlingly natural, and sets them against a sharply drawn backdrop of environmental crisis. In the not-so-distant future, the free-spirited Badri family have escaped the toxic pollution and social unrest of Beirut by seeking refuge in an idyllic mountain home. Without warning, the government starts to build a garbage landfill right outside their fence, intruding on their domestic utopia and bringing the trash and corruption of a whole country to their doorstep. As the landfill rises, so does tension in the household, revealing a long-simmering division between those family members who wish to defend or abandon the mountain oasis they have built. Mounia Akl’s stunning feature debut premiered at Venice and won major prizes at the Toronto and BFI London Film Festivals. Her unique gift with actors is evident in the sensitively realized performances she elicits from her cast, which includes fellow actress and award-winning filmmaker Nadine Labaki.

Costa Brava, Lebanon opens this weekend at the Quad Cinema in New York, attended by filmmaker Mounia Akl for Q&As on July 15th and 16th, before expanding to select cities nationwide. Click here to find a theater near you.

A Kino Lorber release.

“An exceptional debut… the perfect, darkly dazzling vehicle for a sunshine noir.”  – Jessica Kiang, Variety

 “A vivid picture of a troubled paradise.” – Steve Pond, The Wrap

“Tense, gorgeous, award-winning debut film.” – Bilge Ebiri, Vulture

“A superb study in sustained subliminal menace… takes aim at the patriarchy with sinister restraint.” – Tim Grierson, Screen International

Winner: Camera d'Or (Best First Film) – Cannes Film Festival

Official Selections: Cannes Film Festival (Directors’ Fortnight); Toronto International Film Festival

Set on a remote island along the Croatian coast, this Cannes Camera d’Or winner follows 17-year-old Julija, who spends her days diving for eel with her domineering father and dreaming of an escape from her provincial life. The arrival of a rich and mysterious family friend may offer a way out, if it doesn’t portend something more sinister.  Lensed by award-winning cinematographer Hélène Louvart (The Lost Daughter, Never Rarely Sometimes Always), and Executive Produced by Martin Scorsese, MURINA features a ferocious, star-making central performance by Gracija Filipović and the most sumptuous images of the Mediterranean since The Big Blue.

Murina opens this weekend at Metrograph in New York before expanding to select cities nationwide. Click here to find a theater near you.

A Kino Lorber release.

"A timely story of a Ukrainian gymnast torn between her homeland and her ambition." – Kevin Maher, The Times (UK)

“A compelling psychological portrait… paints indelible images of physically powerful, mentally vulnerable young women who want to step up to the podium at all costs.” –  Fionnuala Halligan, Screen Daily

“Speaks to the new agony of banishment now being felt by millions of Ukrainians.” – Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

Winner: SACD Prize: International Critics’ Week – Cannes Film Festival 
 
Official Selections: Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Palm Springs International Film Festival, COLCOA French Film Festival

In Olga, a talented young gymnast from Kiev, played by real-life former Ukrainian national team member Anastasiia Budiashkina, moves to Switzerland to pursue her Olympic dreams just as the Maidan Revolution begins to alter the course of history, and the lives of her mother and friends, back home.

Olga opens this weekend at Quad CInema in New York before expanding to select cities nationwide, with further screenings scheduled in Chicago, Los Angeles, Seattle, Washington DC and more. Click here to find a theater near you.

A Kino Lorber release.

"Critic's Pick! Mind-bending... poetic and punk rock." – A. O. Scott, The New York Times

"The future of Black film. Pure cinematic power." – Jourdain Searles, The Hollywood Reporter

"A mesmerizing Afropunk odyssey hacking at the boundaries of gender, technology, and class." – Toussaint Egan, Polygon

Official Selection: Cannes, Sundance, TIFF, NYFF

Directed by musician and poet Saul Williams and artist Anisia Uzeyman, Neptune Frost is like nothing you've seen before – an Afrofuturist punk sci-fi musical set in the hilltops of Rwanda. In an otherworldly e-waste dump camp, an anti-colonialist hacking collective attempts a takeover of the authoritarian regime exploiting the region's natural resources, and its people. When an intersex runaway and an escaped coltan miner find each other through cosmic forces, their connection sparks glitches within the greater divine circuitry.

Neptune Frost opens this weekend at BAM Rose Cinemas and the Quad Cinema in New York with filmmaker Q&As before expanding to select cities nationwide, with further Q&As scheduled in Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Atlanta. Click here to find a theater near you.

A Kino Lorber release.

“A powerful feminist tale. Deeply empathetic.” – Naman Ramachandran, Variety

“An entrancing reverie of Himalayan life in India. A mix of heavenly landscapes and desperate lives. An uncategorizable cinematic experience — and a haunting one.” – Christian Blauvelt, Indiewire

“An enigmatic and intoxicating experience. Remarkably ambitious. Hypnotic and captivating. Masterfully atmospheric.” – Diego Andaluz, The Film Stage

In northern India, a breathtakingly beautiful Himalayan community attracts tourists by commingling South Asian and Swiss Alps aesthetics. Debut filmmaker Ajitpal Singh tells an unconventional story of feminist strength while “accentuating the [region’s] spectacular exteriors and wide-canvas nature shots” (Variety). One local woman competes with her neighbors for business while battling the strictures of patriarchy, a local infrastructure from hell, and religious superstitions. She saves money, uses feminine wiles to subvert the corrupt powers-that-be, and piggy-backs her son up and down the mountainside to medical appointments with condescending doctors. In the end, our heroine’s tightly wound grit must find release… in triumph, or madness, or both.

Fire in the Mountains opens this weekend at Film Forum in New York before expanding to select cities nationwide. Find a theater near you at kinomarquee.com.

A Kino Lorber release.

"An entertaining, dystopic work. Draws from... John Carpenter to George Miller to Lord of the Flies." – Camillo De Marco, Cineuropa

"A potent tonal mix of the post-apocalyptic and the proto-cyberpunk." – Tommaso Tocci, La Repubblica

"Oliver Twist meets Blade Runner in the dusty and industrial world of Mondocane." – Di Mario Manca, Vanity Fair

In the not-too-distant future on Italy’s southern coast, the city of Taranto has become a toxic wasteland ruled by warring gangs and surrounded by barbed wire, where best friends Pietro and Cristian dream of escaping their hardscrabble existence for a better life in nearby New Taranto. Opportunity knocks when Hothead, the charismatic and dangerous leader of a local gang called the Ants, recruits the two boys and gives them everything they fantasized about: money in their pockets, a family, and a father figure. The friendship begins to splinter, though, as Cristian displays a surprising talent for mayhem and quickly rises through the ranks. With a new female friend pushing them further apart, an obsessed cop hounding the gang, and Hothead becoming increasingly unhinged, the boys barrel toward a confrontation that will determine if their bond is strong enough to survive. Recalling everything from Mad Max to Lord of the Flies, from Oliver Twist to Waterworld, director Alessandro Celli’s thrilling feature debut is a stylish post-apocalyptic vision and an inspiring testament to the power of friendship in an unjust world.

Mondocane opens this weekend at Angelika Film Center in New York, Landmark Opera Plaza in San Francisco, and Landmark Westwood and Laemmle Theatres in Los Angeles before expanding to select cities nationwide. Find a theater near you at kinomarquee.com.

A Kino Lorber release.

“Phenomenal! Thrillingly inventive, satisfyingly textured and infused with warmth and humanity, this is a triumph.” – Wendy Ide, Screen Daily

“Aesthetic audacity. Psychological subtlety.” – Richard Brody, The New Yorker

“A breath of fresh air and a truly original work.” – Elena Lazic, The Playlist

Hit the Road tells the story of a family that takes a road trip across the rugged landscape of Iran to drop their older son off at the border in order to leave the country. Despite the ebullient presence of their younger son, unspoken tensions arise and risks involving the elder son’s flight become increasingly evident as the family approaches its destination. Over the course of the trip, they bond over memories of the past, grapple with fears of the unknown, and fuss over their sick dog. The humanist drama is an authentic, raw, and deeply sincere observation of an Iranian family preparing to part with one of their own.

Hit The Road is the stunning feature debut of Panah Panahi, son and collaborator of embattled Iranian master Jafar Panahi and acolyte of Abbas Kiarostami, which won the top prize at the BFI London Film Festival and was an official selection of the Cannes and New York Film Festivals.

Hit The Road opens this weekend at Film Forum in New York before expanding to select cities nationwide. Find a theater near you at kinomarquee.com.

A Kino Lorber release.

"A fierce, jagged shard of autofictional rage.” – Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

"A work of robust intellectual energy and raging conflict." – Jason Solomons, The Wrap

"Astonishing. Quite possibly brilliant." – Jessica Kiang, Variety 

A celebrated Israeli filmmaker named Y arrives in a remote desert village to present one of his films at a local library. Struggling to cope with the recent news of his mother’s terminal illness, he is pushed into a spiral of rage when the host of the screening, a government employee, asks him to sign a form placing restrictions on what he can say at the film’s Q&A. Told over the course of one day, the film depicts Y as he battles against the loss of freedom in his country and the fear of losing his mother. Nadav Lapid (Synonyms, The Kindergarten Teacher) wrote the film soon after the death of his own mother, who worked as an editor on many of his works. It offers a sharp critique of the censorship, hypocrisy, and violence instigated by Israel and repressive governments everywhere. The fact that it was produced, largely funded, and highly acclaimed in its home country highlights the complexities of a national cinema that refuses to be muzzled, born of the divisions of society itself. Winner of the Jury Prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, this boldly shot and conceived work feels as though it has welled up from the depths of its maker’s soul.

Ahed's Knee opens this weekend at Film at Lincoln Center in New York before expanding to select cities nationwide. Find a theater near you at kinomarquee.com.

A Kino Lorber release.

"[Rozema] uses a seemingly simple style to make some quiet and deep observations… [McCarthy] has one of those faces that speaks volumes, and she is able to be sad without being depressing, funny without being a clown." – Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

“[Rozema's] vivid and surprising imagination, coupled with a startlingly original performance by Sheila McCarthy, help make the film a rare and unexpected delight.” – Bob Thomas, Associated Press

“Ageless. Deft. A rare treat. Sure to leave a new generation of cinephiles rapt.” — Kilian Melloy, Edge Media Network

This charming, whimsical story about a waifish daydreamer with artistic aspirations is structured around a video-recorded confession. In Patricia Rozema’s fanciful character study, aspiring photographer Polly (comedian Sheila McCarthy) lands a job at a Toronto art gallery run by Gabrielle (Paule Baillargeon), who is also a painter. Polly is impressed with Gabrielle’s paintings, but as Polly gets to know her lover Mary (Ann-Marie MacDonald) and becomes entangled in their lives, she realizes Gabrielle isn’t exactly who she appears to be. The gauche absent-minded temp with spiky orange hair and the polished, bourgeois curator with a gift for gab are like night and day, yet a strong connection builds between these two women through their shared love of art, and their genuine curiosity and appetite for love. Winner of the Prix de la Jeunesse at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival. 

To commemorate Canada 150, this film was digitally restored by Library and Archives Canada, Cinematheque Quebecoise, The Cinematheque, and TIFF. 4K Restoration made possible by The Government of Canada, Canada 150, RBC, Ontario 150 and Telefilm.

I've Heard The Mermaids Singing opens this weekend at Metrograph in New York before expanding to select cities nationwide. Find a theater near you at kinomarquee.com.

A Kino Lorber release.

"Exhilarating! A sensuous, hedonistic Weimar epic. One of the breakout films at the 2021 Berlinale.” – Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire

“Fabian could be one of those rare contemporary German films to make a significant mark on a wider stage.” – Jonathn Romney, Screen International

“Enthralling. A vigorous, expansive romance of the times.” – Daniel Kasman, MUBI Notebook

Berlin, 1931. Jakob Fabian works in the advertising department of a cigarette factory by day and drifts through bars, brothels and artist studios with his wealthy and debauched friend Labude by night. When Fabian meets the beautiful and confident Cornelia, he manages to shed his pessimistic attitude for a brief moment and falls in love. Not long after, he falls victim to the great wave of layoffs sweeping the city, plunging him back into a depression, while Cornelia’s career as an actress is taking off thanks to her wealthy boss and admirer – an arrangement that Fabian finds difficult to accept. But it’s not just his world that is falling apart; all of Germany is about to self-destruct. Veteran German director Dominik Graf (Beloved Sisters) wowed audiences at the Berlin Film Festival and won three German Film Awards with this dazzling adaptation of Erich Kästner’s classic of Weimar literature, set amid the twilight hedonism of pre-Nazi Germany.

Fabian: Going to the Dogs opens this weekend at Metrograph in New York and March 4th at Laemmle Theatres in Los Angeles before expanding to select cities nationwide. Find a theater near you at kinomarquee.com.

A Kino Lorber release.

“A naturalistic story of parental devotion and sacrifice… balances rueful humor with genuine sweetness.” – Alissa Simon, Variety

“Touchingly absurd and absurdly touching… A slow-burn family drama infused with welcome doses of deadpan dark humor.” – Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter

In this portrait of parental sacrifice and the love of a father for his son, former wrestler Kakhi (played by real-life Olympic champion Levan Tediashvili) embarks on a journey from his home in the Republic of Georgia to visit his son Soso (Giorgi Tabidze) in the Russian-speaking neighborhood of Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. There he finds him living in a shabby boarding house populated by a colorful group of fellow Georgian immigrants. Soso is not studying medicine, as Kakhi believed, but is working for a moving company and has accrued a $14,000 gambling debt to a local Russian mob boss. Kakhi sets his mind to helping his hapless son out of his debt, leading to situations as often comic as they are dire. Lensed by Oscar®-nominated cinematographer Phedon Papamichael (The Trial of the Chicago 7, Nebraska), Levan Koguashvili’s Brighton 4th won three major awards at the Tribeca Film Festival – Best International Film, Best Actor, and Best Screenplay – and is Georgia’s official submission to the 94th Academy Awards®.

Brighton 4th opens this weekend at Village East Cinema in New York and February 11 at Laemmle Theatres in Los Angeles before expanding to select cities nationwide. Find a theater near you at kinomarquee.com.

A Kino Lorber release.

Martin Scorsese shared some thoughts about Miklós Jancsó in honor of Kino Lorber's release of six films by the Hungarian master, restored in 4K from their original camera negatives by the National Film Institute Hungary – Film Archive. These films are now playing at the Metrograph in New York before touring select cities and coming to Digital, Blu-ray, and DVD in April 2022.

In the 1960s, there were artistic revolutions and revelations exploding all around the world—between the movies we were seeing and the music we were listening to, it was like living at the heart of a supernova. At this point, the connection to that moment is fading. Fewer and fewer people know the films or the people who made them, even people like Fellini and Bergman and Truffaut. Or Miklós Jancsó, the Hungarian master.

One of the major preoccupations of that era was the need to make a genuinely political cinema. What should a political film cinema be? Should it look to past, to the great Soviet films? Or to the plays and writings of Bertolt Brecht? Should it be rousing and melodramatic, or icy and analytical? Was Jean-Luc Godard the answer? Alain Resnais? Chris Marker? Of course there was no definitive answer. There were only individual responses, from individual artists.

Jancsó burst into our consciousness with The Round-Up, which dealt with the Hapsburg government clampdown on the remaining members of a band of revolutionary guerillas jailed in a prison camp on the Hungarian steppe. Shot in stunning black and white Scope, the picture seemed to encompass every possible approach to political cinema and then to transcend them all. It was virtuosic, a tour de force of choreography for the camera. It was precise in its portrayal of raw power, but it was also emotionally gripping. The setting and the story were severe but the picture was thrilling—a grand, tragic vision that left us feeling uplifted. The Round-Up, followed by Jancsó’s The Red and the White and Red Psalm and Winter Wind, made us all want to go home and get to work.

At long last, The Round-Up has been restored, along with 5 other Jancsó pictures. Kino Lorber is presenting the package, and it will be seen in repertory cinemas around the country before it’s available at home. If the films scheduled to show near you, then don’t miss them. Because I’m telling you now: this is essential viewing.

– Martin Scorsese, New York, Jan 2022

On the eve of spooky season, Kino Lorber is thrilled to introduce Kino Cult, a free ad-supported streaming destination for lovers of horror and cult films! Featuring hundreds of hours of curated genre favorites, all in high definition and with new titles added monthly, Kino Cult offers a deep dive into unapologetically weird cinema, blending recent genre indies with hundreds of outrageous midnight movies and grindhouse gems.

Kino Cult has something for everyone, plus discoveries galore. Catch up with recent acclaimed genre indies like Yorgos Lanthimos’s Dogtooth, Ana Lily Amirpour’s A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, and Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani’s Let The Corpses Tan. Add some European flavor to your Halloween season with films by Mario Bava, Jean Rollin, and Jess Franco. Or explore new and cult favorite titles in categories like Golden Age of Exploitation, ‘70s and ‘80s Flashback, Occult, and Crime & Suspense.

Best of all, it’s completely free to stream! What better way to experiment and discover your new favorite genre film this Halloween season? Download the Kino Cult app and start your October binge on Roku, Amazon Fire, Apple TV, iOS, and Android, all at kinocult.com.

"Critic’s Pick! Wife of a Spy is something like linear narrative perfection, with every scene perfectly calibrated." – Glenn Kenny, The New York Times

"A period drama with distinct Hitchcockian overtones... in the vintage of Suspicion and Notorious.” – Jonathan Romney, Screen Daily

"Kiyoshi Kurosawa's best movie in years." – David Ehrlich, Indiewire

Master filmmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Pulse, Cure, Tokyo Sonata) won the Silver Lion (Best Director) at the Venice Film Festival for this riveting, gorgeously crafted, old-school Hitchockian thriller shot in stunning 8K. The year is 1940 in Kobe, on the eve of the outbreak of World War II. Local merchant and amateur filmmaker Yusaku (Issey Takahashi, Kill Bill) senses that things are headed in an unsettling direction. Following a trip to Manchuria, he becomes determined to bring to light the things he witnessed there, and secretly filmed. Meanwhile, his wife Satoko (Japan Society’s 2021 Honoree Yû Aoi) receives a visit from her childhood friend, now a military policeman. He warns her about Yusaku’s seditious ways and reveals that a woman her husband brought back from his trip has died. Satoko confronts Yusaku, but when she discovers his true intentions, she is torn between loyalty to her husband, the life they have built, and the country they call home.

Wife of a Spy opens this weekend at the IFC Center in New York before expanding to select theaters nationwide. It will be available in virtual cinemas starting October 15. Find a theater near you at kinomarquee.com.

Do you live in the San Francisco or Chicago area? Join us for *free* Letterboxd sneak peaks of Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Wife of a Spy!

Tuesday, September 21 at 6:45pm
Roxie Theater (San Francisco)
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Wednesday, September 22 at 7:00pm
Gene Siskel Film Center (Chicago)
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A Kino Lorber release.

Rob Reiner's classic adaptation of Stephen King's Misery starring Kathy Bates in an Oscar®-winning role is now available for pre-order on 4K UHD Blu-ray from Kino Lorber!
https://www.klstudioclassics.com/product/view/id/8590
 
Misery
From the mind of Stephen King, the master of horror behind Carrie, The Shining, The Stand and It, comes the terrifying psychological thriller for which Kathy Bates (Dolores Claiborne) won the Academy Award for her iconic, bone-shattering performance. After his car crashes in the mountains during a blinding snowstorm, famous novelist Paul Sheldon (James Caan, Thief) is “rescued” from a car crash by Annie Wilkes (Bates), a fan obsessed with the main character in his series of novels. But when Wilkes reads his latest book—and learns he has killed her favorite character—she teaches Sheldon the real meaning of Misery. Injured and isolated far from help, Sheldon engages in a desperate battle of wits with Wilkes as she becomes ever more deranged and violent. Director Rob Reiner (The Princess Bride, A Few Good Men) and screenwriter William Goldman (Marathon Man, All the President’s Men) deliver a white-knuckle suspense tale that features Frances Sternhagen (The Mist), Richard Farnsworth (The Grey Fox) and the great Lauren Bacall (The Big Sleep).

Cast
James Caan
Kathy Bates
Richard Farnsworth
Lauren Bacall
Frances Sternhagen
Graham Jarvis
J.T. Walsh
 
Crew
Directed by Rob Reiner
1990 / 107 min / English / Horror, Drama, Thriller
 
4K UHD Extras Include:

4KUHD DISC 1:
HDR Dolby Vision
Audio Commentary by Director Rob Reiner
Audio Commentary by Screenwriter William Goldman
5.1 Surround & 2.0 Lossless Stereo
Optional English Subtitles
 
UHD 100 Triple Layer Disc / BLU-RAY DISC 2:
Audio Commentary by Director Rob Reiner
Audio Commentary by Screenwriter William Goldman
Misery Loves Company: Featurette (29:52)
Marc Shaiman’s Musical Misery Tour: Featurette (14:28)
Diagnosing Annie Wilkes: Featurette (8:47)
Advice for the Stalked: Featurette (4:58)
Profile of a Stalker: Featurette (6:17)
Celebrity Stalkers: Featurette (5:08)
Anti-Stalking Laws: Featurette (2:23) | Season’s Greetings Trailer (2:25)
Theatrical Trailer (2:20)
5.1 Surround & 2.0 Lossless Stereo
Optional English Subtitles
Dual-Layered BD50 Disc