For a second year in a row, Kino Lorber has inked a deal for Berlin’s Golden Bear winner. The indie distributor said Thursday it has acquired North American rights to Synonyms, Nadav Lapid's drama that won Berlin’s top prize after it world premiered there in February. The pic will now get a U.S. theatrical release in…

Kino Lorber has acquired North American rights to Abel Ferrara’s drama Pasolini, nearly five years after its world premiere at Venice and subsequent festival slots that year in Toronto and New York. The film, which stars Willem Dafoe, will have its theatrical premiere in New York at The Metrograph on May 10. Leading…

A documentary on the first female multi-hyphenate in cinema’s long history has unveiled its trailer. Pamela B. Green's Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché, narrated by Jodie Foster, is a feature documentary that studies the full scope of the life and work of screenwriter, producer and studio owner Alice…

Deep in the credits for the documentary Of Fathers and Sons comes a startling notation—a mention of the firm that supplied kidnapping and ransom insurance. That's an indication of just how dangerous the project was for director Talal Derki, who risked his life to get inside a radical Islamist family in Northwestern…

EXCLUSIVE: Zeitgeist Films in association with Kino Lorber announced today that it has acquired North American rights for Pamela B. Green's documentary, Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché. Narrated by Jodie Foster, the film centers on the life and accomplishments of the world's first female filmmaker and…

EXCLUSIVE: Kino Lorber has acquired North American rights to Eldorado, Markus Imhoof's documentary that has been chosen by Switzerland to represent the country in this year’s Foreign Language Oscar race. Imhoff was Oscar-nominated in 1981 for his drama The Boat Is Full — like Eldorado its focus was the plight of…

Kino Lorber has acquired North American rights to Walking on Water, the documentary about famed installation artist Christo that had its world premiere last month at the Toronto Film Festival. The doc from Andrey M Paounov, which offers an inside, cinema verite look at the planning and construction of Christo’s 2016…

Although he is banned from travel outside his home country, and banned from filmmaking period, Iranian director Jafar Panahi continues to persevere, crafting movies that make their way to international festivals and theatrical release. At the New York Film Festival premiere of his latest work, 3 Faces, Panahi said via…

Jafar Panahi's drama 3 Faces, which won the best screenplay award at this year's Cannes Film Festival, is getting a theatrical release in the U.S. after Kino Lorber picked up the feature. The company will roll out the film, which stars Panahi and Behnaz Jafari, in theaters in March 2019 followed by a VOD and home vide…

Kino Lorber has acquired North American rights to Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Chinese director Bi Gan's new film that had its world premiere this year at the Cannes Film Festival’s Un Certain Regard section. The China-France co-production is playing in the Toronto and New York film festivals before getting a spring…

Imax has inked a deal with Vox Cinemas, the Middle East's largest exhibitor, for a minimum of four new theaters in Saudi Arabia. Four theaters will be added to new multiplexes in Riyadh, after the first Imax theater opened at Vox Cinemas' Riyadh Park Mall venue. Vox Cinemas was awarded its licence to operate cinemas…

Kino Lorber has acquired North American rights to Jean-Luc Godard's The Image Book (Le Livre D'Image), which just had its world premiere in competition at the Cannes Film Festival. The deal marks a reteam of the director and the indie distributor, which picked up his Goodbye to Language after it bowed in Cannes in…