Kino Lorber - Experience Cinema

Bacurau

Action & Adventure · Drama · Action

A small village in the Brazilian sertão town finds its sun-dappled day-to-day disturbed when its inhabitants (among them Sônia Braga) are targeted by a group of armed mercenaries led by Udo Kier… who may have met their match in the fed-up, resourceful denizens of little Bacurau.

Death In Buenos Aires

Mystery · Crime · Drama

A businessman is murdered at his home. Experienced police Inspector Chávez uses a rookie officer as a bait to catch the killer, while struggling with his own deepest desires.

The Devil Queen (Kino Cult #53)

Crime · Cult · Drama

Rio de Janeiro’s criminal underworld is run by an unexpected boss: Diaba, a drag queen with a taste for power and violence. When the police come after her boy toy, Diaba attempts to find a scapegoat to take the blame and a plot to dethrone Her Majesty arises!

Emily @ the Edge of Chaos

Documentary · Comedy

Science saved brainiac comedian Emily Levine and Emily uses science – and jokes! – to save the world.

Fados

Music & Dance · Documentary

Fados completes the musical trilogy of award-winning Carlos Saura (Flamenco, 1995; Tango, 1998). Using Lisbon as a backdrop, he explores Portugal’s most emblematic musical genre (fado) and its haunting spirit of saudade (melancholy). Tracing its African and Brazilian origins up to the new wave…

The Great Mystical Circus

World Cinema · Drama

Reality and fantasy collide in the story of a family-owned circus spanning five generations of decadence, love and loss, as told by Cinema Novo master Carlos Diegues (Bye Bye Brazil, Quilombo). Starring Vincent Cassel and with a score by Chico Buarque.

In the Pit

Sundance Film Festival · Documentary

Juan Carlos Rulfo's In the Pit is a powerful documentary about the personal struggles behind the construction of a massive elevated freeway. With lyricisim and compassion, this Sundance Film Festival prize-winning film reveals the medieval nightmare underneath an ambitious utopian dream: Mexico City…

The Land of Azaba

Earth Day · Documentary

Addressing climate change is the existential question of our time, but climate change and bio-diversity loss are two sides to the same coin. The Land of Azaba is the first feature documentary on the subject of ecological restoration, and it is set in one of the world’s first “hot spots&r…

Love In The City

World Cinema

Six top Italian filmmakers pooled their talents on the omnibus "reality" feature Amore in Citta (Love in the City).

The Magic Box: The Films of Shirley Clarke

Experimental · Drama · Documentary

This three-disc set collects the vast array of Shirley Clarke's astonishing short, dance, and avant-garde films along with her Oscar®-winning documentary Robert Frost: A Lover’s Quarrel with the World

Martin Eden

Drama · Based on Literature · Period Drama

Adapted from a 1909 novel by Jack London and operating in the tradition of the great Italian classics, Martin Eden tells the story of a dashing young proletarian who hopes that his dreams of becoming a writer will help him rise above his station in order to marry a bourgeois university student.

Neon Bull

Culture · RT Certified Fresh · World Cinema

Wild, sensual and utterly transporting, Brazilian writer-director Gabriel Mascaro's second fiction feature unfolds within the world of the vaquejada, a traditional exhibition sport in which cowboys try to pull bulls to the ground by their tails. Neon Bull explores the vaquejada through the eyes of I…

Restless Creature: Wendy Whelan

Performance · Ballet · Documentary

RESTLESS CREATURE: WENDY WHELAN offers an intimate portrait of prima ballerina Wendy Whelan as she prepares to leave New York City Ballet after a record-setting three decades with the company.

Tommy Guns

Drama · War

This Locarno award-winner has elicited comparisons to the work of Claire Denis, Miguel Gomes, and even M. Night Shyamalan. What starts out as a portrait of the final days of Portuguese colonial rule in Angola playfully swerves from art house drama to war film to zombie flick to escape thriller with …