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Kino Lorber announced that it has acquired all North American distribution rights to Carlos Conceição’s ambitious and exquisitely crafted Tommy Guns, a genre-fluid fantasia that vengefully engages with Angola’s colonial past while evoking the work of Miguel Gomes, Claire Denis, and even M. Night Shyamalan. The film will make its North American premiere at New Directors/New Films with director Carlos Conceição and actor João Arrais in attendance, followed by a theatrical release via Kino Lorber on April 12. 

Kino Lorber and Beta Cinema announced that they have closed a deal for all North American distribution rights to Alex Schaad’s daring first feature Skin Deep, a sharp, thoughtful take on the body swap film that upends genres to examine gender, sexuality, and personal identity. Kino Lorber is planning a theatrical release later this year followed by a digital and home video release on all major platforms. 

Kino Lorber announced that it has acquired from The Bureau Sales all US distribution rights to Jean-Paul Salomé’s gripping true life thriller The Sitting Duck, starring Isabelle Huppert as the French union organizer and whistleblower Maureen Kearney. The Sitting Duck will open theatrically in France in March, and Kino Lorber is planning a US theatrical release later this year followed by a digital and home video release on all major platforms. 

Kino Lorber announced that it has acquired all US distribution rights to Final Cut, directed by Academy Award® winner Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist) and starring Romain Duris (L'Auberge Espagnole) and Academy Award® nominee Bérénice Bejo (The Artist). Kino Lorber will release the film theatrically in Summer 2023 followed by a digital and home video release on all major platforms.

The former top AMC Networks executives will help shape Kino Lorber’s content and distribution strategies.

Plus New Additions to MHz Choice, Kino Now, Filmatique

A Four-Disc Collection of 99 Specially Curated, Rarely-Seen Silent Films About Feminist Protest, Anarchic Slapstick Destruction, and Suggestive Gender Play

Zeitgeist Films in association with Kino Lorber, two of the leading distribution companies for art-house and international films in the U.S., announced that they have acquired all US rights to the animated feature Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman from The Match Factory. The feature debut of composer Pierre Földes, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman will open theatrically at Film Forum in New York in April 2023 before expanding nationwide.

'Death Wish' with Charles Bronson and 'The Italian Job' with Michael Caine and Noël Coward come to 4K UHD, plus Chuck Norris's 'Missing in Action' trilogy, Orson Welles's 'The Lady from Shanghai,' and much more.

Including titles from Kino Lorber, Kino Classics, Cohen Media Group, Cohen Film Collection, Greenwich Entertainment, Good Deed Entertainment, Menemsha Films, and Raro Video.

The film had its World Premiere at the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight and is a natural extension of her literary work in its form and content, showing the pastimes, lifestyle and aspirations of a social class in post-1960s France through the lens of the Ernaux family archive.

Award-winning international film distribution company Kino Lorber announced today its acquisition of global media company MHz Networks, parent of streamer MHz Choice, the leading North American SVOD service dedicated to international television series.