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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.

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'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.

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.

Kino Lorber announced that it has acquired North American distribution rights to Orit Fouks Rotem’s nuanced and absorbing debut Cinema Sabaya, Israel’s official entry to the 95th Academy Awards. A richly textured portrait of a group of Arab and Israeli women taking part in a documentary filmmaking workshop, Cinema Sabaya will be released theatrically by Kino Lorber in early 2023, followed by digital and home video release.

Kino Lorber announced that it has acquired worldwide rights to the celebrated American independent filmmaker Rob Nilsson’s Faultline, in addition to worldwide rights to his near complete filmography including his 1979 masterpiece Northern Lights, co-directed with John Hanson. The complete Nilsson catalog will be available on Kino Now in 2023, with select titles released theatrically as well. Faultline made its World Premiere at the Mill Valley Film Festival on October 11, and will receive a theatrical and digital release from Kino Lorber in 2023.

Kino Lorber announced that it has acquired all rights to A Short Story, the new short film by Long Day’s Journey Into Night director Bi Gan.

Kino Lorber announced that it has acquired all rights in the US and anglophone Canada to Lise Akoka and Romane Gueret’s sensitive and affecting drama The Worst Ones, which was awarded the top prize in the Un Certain Regard section of the 2022 Cannes Film Festival and will make its North American premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival this September.

Kino Lorber announced that it has acquired from Orange Studio all North American distribution rights to Pietro Marcello’s expansive post-WWI fable Scarlet, marking Kino’s second collaboration with the celebrated Martin Eden director. The film will make its North American premiere in the Main Slate of the 60th New York Film Festival this fall before a theatrical release in 2023.

Zeitgeist Films in association with Kino Lorber, two of the leading distribution companies for art-house and international films in the U.S., have acquired all North American rights to Eva Vitija’s Loving Highsmith, an intimate documentary portrait of the novelist Patricia Highsmith that casts new light on her life and oeuvre. Zeitgeist Films will release the film theatrically this September.

Kino Lorber announced that it has acquired all North American distribution rights to Mauro Russo Rouge’s intimate documentary Bloom Up: A Swinger Couple Story. Kino Lorber is planning a theatrical release on August 12, ahead of International Swingers Day (August 13).

Kino Lorber announced that it has acquired all North American distribution rights to Manuela Martelli's Chile '76, which made its world premiere at this year's Cannes Directors' Fortnight and will be released in North America in 2023.

Kino Lorber announced that it has acquired North American theatrical and other rights to Mounia Akl's directorial debut Costa Brava, Lebanon, a keen and darkly comic commentary on Lebanon's waste crisis and unsettled political landscape.

Kino Lorber announced that it has acquired North American distribution rights to Chase Joynt's innovative hybrid film Framing Agnes, which explores the lived expe riences of trans people past and present through reenactments of transcripts from a UCLA gender study conducted in the 1960s.

Kino Lorber announced that it has acquired North American distribution rights to Francisca Alegría's elegiac environmental fable The Cow Who Sang a Song Into the Future. Kino Lorber is planning a theatrical release later this year.

Kino Lorber announced that it has acquired North American distribution rights to Nina Menkes’ explosive documentary BRAINWASHED: Sex-Camera-Power, teaming with Kanopy, the premium library streaming platform for films that matter, for the film’s release.