Inc Kino Lorber
2) Born to be
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Follows the work of Dr. Jess Ting at the groundbreaking Mount Sinai Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery in New York City, where all transgender and gender nonconforming people have access to quality transition-related health and surgical care. This feature-length documentary takes an intimate look at how one doctor's work impacts the lives of his patients as well as how his journey from renowned plastic surgeon to pioneering gender-affirming...
3) Sebastian
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
In this queer drama, we follow Max, a 25-year-old freelance writer and aspiring novelist who seems well on his way to success in London's cultural spheres. Yet by night, he finds a different kind of exhilaration as a sex worker with the pseudonym Sebastian, meeting men via an escorting platform. Max uses his experiences as Sebastian to fuel his stories, and the worthy debut novel that he has been longing to write finally seems within reach. As Max...
4) Wojnarowicz
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A fiery and urgent documentary portrait of downtown New York City artist, writer, photographer, and activist David Wojnarowicz. As New York City became the epicenter of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s, Wojnarowicz weaponized his work and waged war against the establishment's indifference to the plague until his death from it in 1992 at the age of 37. Exclusive access to his breathtaking body of work, including paintings, journals, and films, reveals...
5) 3 faces
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Persian
Description
A smartphone video shot by a young woman announces that her parents have forbidden her from realizing her dream of acting and then, by all appearances, takes her own life. The recipient of the video, Behnaz Jafari, as herself, asks Panahi, as himself, to drive her to the woman's tiny home village near the Turkish border to investigate.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Based on the best-selling book by Naoki Higashida, is an immersive cinematic exploration of neurodiversity through the experiences of nonspeaking autistic people from around the world. The film blends Higashida's revelatory insights into autism, written when he was just thirteen, with intimate portraits of five remarkable young people. It opens a window for audiences into an intense and overwhelming, but often joyful, sensory universe. Moments in...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
During the summer of 2016, a fishing boat off the shores of Iceland made a most curious catch: four reels of 35mm film, seemingly of Soviet provenance. Unlike the film find explored in Bill Morrison's Dawson City: Frozen Time, it turned out this discovery wasn't a lost work of major importance, but an incomplete print of a popular comedy starring beloved Russian actor Mihail Z̆arov. Does that mean it has no value? Morrison thought not. To him, the...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The Real Bedford Falls: It's a Wonderful Life explores the connections between Seneca Falls, New York, and Bedford Falls, the setting of the movie It's a Wonderful Life. The documentary examines smalltown life in Seneca Falls, captures the excitement of the annual It's a Wonderful Life Festival, and celebrates the enduring themes of the Frank Capra classic. The film features interviews with Karolyn Grimes (who played Zuzu Bailey), Jimmy Hawkins (who...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A heartwarming portrait of those real-life heroes that risk their lives every day, through pandemics, cancer wards, and hospice care. This deeply moving documentary explores some of the biggest issues facing America, aging, war, poverty, and prisons, through the work and lives of nurses. Meet Jason Short, who works with home-bound patients in Appalachia; Tonia Faust, who provides hospice care to prison inmates; Naomi Cross, bringing babies into the...
11) Chained for life
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Mabel and Rosenthal are the two stars of a pretentious art-horror film directed by an unhinged tyrant who may or may not be German (he goes by 'Herr Director'). Mabel is playing a blind woman while Rosenthal, who has facial tumors caused by neurofibromatosis, is essentially playing a version of himself. Both their characters are part of a mad doctor's plot to 'cure' disabilities. But while Mabel can distance herself from her character, Rosenthal's...
Publisher
Kino Lorber, Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
Vietnamese
Description
After a car accident claims the life of his sister-in-law and leaves his 5-year-old nephew an orphan, a thirtysomething man named Thien leaves Saigon for a trip back to his rural hometown. During his meditative, wandering visit, Thien wrestles with his own agnosticism in the face of others' religious beliefs, summons memories of his long-disappeared brother, and reconnects with a former girlfriend who now lives as a nun at a Christian church and school,...
14) Luzzu
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Maltese
Description
A hardworking Maltese fisherman, Jesmark is faced with an agonizing choice. He can repair his leaky luzzu, a traditional, multicolored wooden fishing boat, in the hopes of eking out a meager living at sea for his wife and newborn son, just as his father and grandfather did before him. Or he can decommission it in exchange for an EU payout and cast his lot with a sinister black-market operation that is decimating the Mediterranean fish population and...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A month after receiving a fatal diagnosis in January 2015, Oliver Sacks sat down for a series of filmed interviews in his apartment in New York City. For eighty hours, surrounded by family, friends, and notebooks from six decades of thinking and writing about the brain, he talked about his life and work, his abiding sense of wonder at the natural world, and the place of human beings within it. Drawing on these deeply personal reflections, as well...
16) Deerskin
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Français
Description
In this black comedy of middle-aged masculinity gone awry, a recent divorcee who becomes obsessed with a vintage fringed deerskin jacket that begins to exert an uncanny hold on him.
17) Modus: Season 1
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Swedish
Description
The case leads her to team up with local detective Ingvar Nymann and together they set about uncovering the clues to these shocking crimes. As the number of mysterious murders starts to increase, Inger Johanne is driven by her need to protect her daughter and starts noticing a pattern. But her discovery of the killer's weakness and the connection to a ruthless international network unintentionally turns the entire threat towards herself and her family....
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Iyengar Yoga is universally respected, practiced worldwide and credited by multitudes as life transforming, but because its founder B. K. S. Iyengar is famously reclusive, little is known about the man who invented this powerful practice. Thanks to exclusive, intimate access to this legendary yogi, Jake Clennell's documentary is able to showcase the profound spirituality embedded in his practice, which has led religions around the world to incorporate...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Jack finds himself adrift after his father, legendary Coach Davis, cuts him from his renowned soccer club. Estranged from his dad, at odds with his brother and desperate for purpose, he turns to his ex-girlfriend Sofia. Inspired by her tough love and unwavering pursuit to become a recording artist, he takes one last shot at his lifelong dream, by trying out for a rival soccer club.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A documentary about legendary photographer Bill Cunningham features photographs chosen from over three million previously unpublicized images and documents from the iconic street photographer and fashion historian. Told in Cunningham₂s own words from a 1994 interview, the photographer chronicles moonlighting as a milliner in France during the Korean War, his unique relationship with First Lady Jackie Kennedy, his four decades at The New York Times...