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A premier distributor of independent, foreign and documentary films based in New York City.

Some of the films we have released: ONCE UPON A TIME IN ANATOLIA, THE INTERRUPTERS, MARWENCOL, SWEETGRASS, THE BEACHES OF AGNES, 35 SHOTS OF RUM, THE TURIN HORSE, NATURAL SELECTION, THE DAY HE ARRIVES, JAUJA.

09/10/2026

~ Cinema Guild at NYFF | New York Film Festival 64 ~

📹 Hong Sangsoo’s NOWHERE TO LAY MY EYES
& THE DAY SHE RETURNS

📚Ted Fendt’s FOREIGN TRAVEL

🌙 Éric Baudelaire’s FOR THE MOON

09/03/2026

‘João César Monteiro, Poet-Provocateur’ begins next Friday at Harvard Film Archive.

September 11 - October 30.

Massachusetts premiere of our new 4K restorations.

In the lead up to the program, watch our brand new trailer for RECOLLECTIONS OF THE YELLOW HOUSE.

07/22/2026

On October 27, we will be releasing Shinji Somai’s MOVING on 4K UHD and Blu-ray.

Both editions are now available from our store at a 50% discount until launch!

Extras include:
- ‘The Making of Moving’: a behind-the-scenes TV documentary
- An Interview with actress Tomoko Tabata
- An introduction by filmmaker Ryusuke Hamaguchi
Theatrical Trailer
- Booklet featuring an archival Director’s Note by Shinji Somai

07/20/2026

RITES OF CINEMA: The Films of António Reis & Margarida Cordeiro

August 7 - 13 at BAM Film

The beautiful, haunting, and highly influential work of António Reis and Margarida Cordeiro arrives at BAM in gorgeous new restorations by Cinemateca Portuguesa—after years of being difficult to access. Reis, a collaborator with Portuguese filmmaking legends like Manuel de Oliveira, Paulo Rocha, and practicing psychiatrist Cordeiro, made a small body of singular films focused on life in rural, agrarian north east Portugal, the Trás-os-Montes (literally, “behind the mountains”). Highly regarded by a generation of filmmakers like Pedro Costa, Reis’s student in university, these pieces of pure cinema are widely available in the US for the first time. They screen alongside work Reis contributed to prior to directing, plus a selection of films influenced by the Portuguese director duo’s potent oeuvre.

06/24/2026

Our Blu-ray of DRY LEAF is coming August 25! Included with the film is Let The Summer Never Come Again (2017, 202 minutes) the first feature by Aleksandre Koberidze.

06/02/2026

Presented with ~

The Los Angeles premiere of the restored films of António Reis & Margarida Cordeiro, the legendary Portuguese filmmaking duo.

Starts tomorrow! June 9 - 11 at

Restorations courtesy of

05/26/2026

“[The films that] reconciled me with my country and my language.” - Pedro Costa

Watch the new trailer for the films of the legendary Portuguese duo António Reis & Margarida Cordeiro, newly restored and distributed in North America for the very first time. Touring theaters across the U.S. & Canada in 2026.

LOS ANGELES PREMIERE ~ June 9-11 at in collaboration with .

05/06/2026

“To live every second of your life in love, that’s difficult, maybe even impossible. But that’s what António Reis did.” - Pedro Costa

Starting this Friday at Cinematheque, see the films of the legendary Portuguese duo Margarida Cordeiro & António Reis in brand new 4K restorations. A rare and unmissable opportunity.

The first stop on a planned tour of their films across North America, in collaboration with .

05/05/2026

Voted the Best “Undistributed” Film of 2025 by , Kamal Aljafari’s WITH HASAN IN GAZA opens May 29th at . New trailer out now.

“Every second of this documentary is an archive of presence, demanding recognition and remembrance.” ,

03/30/2026

“I remember what [Otar] said in what I believe was his last interview: ‘Filmmaking is a way to let an unknown friend know that he is not alone.’ There’s no better inspiration for me to make more films.” -

We’re delighted to announce our acquisition of new 4K restorations of films by the great Georgian filmmaker Otar Iosseliani. Stay tuned for theatrical release announcements.

Described as “the true heir to Renoir, Tati, and Buñuel,” Iosseliani was a devout anti-confirmist whose lyrical, anarchic comedies are closer to musical composition than conventional narrative cinema. Employing long takes with minimal cuts and allowing his subjects to overlap and intertwine, his films are propelled by behavior, milieu, and witty observations of the everyday. In the words of critic Bernard Eisenschitz, Iosseliani cultivated the feeling that “every moment should be lived as an adventure.” Iosseliani achieved his breakthrough with Falling Leaves, a landmark of the new Georgian cinema, which won the FIPRESCI prize at Cannes Critics Week in 1967. His follow-up features—Once Upon a Time There Was a Singing Blackbird (1970) and Pastorale (1979)—solidified his status as “a watercolorist of everyday life” (Raphaël Bassan).

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