Inc Kino Lorber
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Language
Korean
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Description
SONGS FROM THE NORTH is an essay film which offers an unique look at the enigma of North Korea, a country typically seen through the distorted lens of jingoistic propaganda and derisive satire. Interweaving footage from director Soon-Mi Yoo's three visits to North Korea together with songs, spectacle, popular cinema and archival footage, SONGS FROM THE NORTH tries to understand the psychology and popular imagery of the North Korean people. To look...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Language
English
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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...
3) Kūmāré
Publisher
Kino Lorber, Inc
Language
English
Description
"A provocative social experiment-turned-documentary, Kūmāré follows American filmmaker Vikram Gandhi as he transforms himself into a wise Indian guru [named Kūmāré], hoping to prove the absurdity of blind faith. Instead, he finds himself forging profound connections with people from all walks of life -- and wondering if and when to reveal his true self...winner of South by Southwest's Audience Award, Kūmāré is an insightful look at faith...
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Language
English
Description
Ricky Jay is a world-renowned magician, author, historian and actor, as well as a performer who regularly provokes astonishment from even the most jaded audiences. Trace Jay's achievements and influences, from his apprenticeship at age four with his grandfather, to such now-forgotten legends as Al Flosso, Slydini, Cardini and his primary mentors, Dai Vernon and Charlie Miller. Featuring rare footage from his 1970s TV appearances, this is a remarkable...
5) Regina
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Language
English
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Description
Diana Groó’s documentary tells the story of Regina Jonas (1902-1944) a strong woman, who made history by becoming the first properly ordained woman rabbi in the world.The daughter of an Orthodox Jewish peddler, Jonas grew up in Berlin’s slum, studied at the liberal Hochschulefür die Wissenschaft des Judentums (College for the Scientific Study of Judaism) beginning in 1924,and was ordained in 1935. At age 37, she met the love of her life, Rabbi...
6) 3 Faces
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Language
Persian
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Description
Actress Behnaz Jafari is distraught when she comes across a young girl's video plea for help after her family prevents her from taking up her studies at the Tehran drama conservatory. Behnaz abandons her shoot and turns to filmmaker Jafar Panahi to help with the young girl's troubles. They travel by car to the rural Northwest, where they have encounters with the charming and generous folk of the girl's mountain village. But Behnaz and Jafar also discover...
Language
English
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Description
Antiquarian booksellers are part scholar, part detective and part businessperson, and their personalities and knowledge are as broad as the material they handle. They also play an underappreciated yet essential role in preserving history. THE BOOKSELLERS takes viewers inside their small but fascinating world, populated by an assortment of obsessives, intellects, eccentrics and dreamers. Official Selection at the **The New York Film Festival**.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Language
English
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Description
"This meditation on cinema's past from Decasia director Bill Morrison pieces together the bizarre true history of a long-lost collection of 533 nitrate film prints from the early 1900s. Located just south of the Arctic Circle, Dawson City was settled in 1896 and became the center of the Canadian Gold Rush that brough 100,000 prospectors to the area. It was also the final stop for a distribution chain that sent prints and newsreels to the Yukon. The...
10) Keep Quiet
Language
English
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Description
As vice-president of Hungary’s far-right extremist party, Csanad Szegedi espoused anti-Semitic rhetoric and Holocaust denials, and founded the Hungarian Guard, a now-banned militia inspired by a pro-Nazi group complicit in the murder of thousands of Jews during WWII. But his life was soon upended when Szegedi’s maternal grandparents were revealed to be Jewish and his beloved grandmother an Auschwitz survivor who had hidden her faith, fearing further...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Language
עברית
Description
Winner of the Best Documentary Prize at the Haifa International Film Festival, director Yael Reuveny's Farewell Herr Schwarz is a cinematic journey about buried family secrets, the Holocaust (from a third generation perspective) and how it is never too late to reclaim your heritage. Siblings Michla and Feiv'ke Schwarz survived the Holocaust but never reunited after the war. Michla moved to the soon-to-be-founded Jewish state in the Middle East and...
12) Taxi
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
Persian
Description
Jafar Panahi drives a yellow cab through the vibrant streets of Tehran, picking up a diverse group of passengers in a single day. Each man, woman, and child candidly expresses his or her own view of the world while being interviewed by the curious and gracious driver.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Language
English
Description
The Wiggles are having a Halloween Party and everyone is invited! Get ready for a spooktacular celebration. There's dress-ups aplenty, a Halloween feast, thirsty little vampires wanting cranberry juice, and, of course, lots of dancing including colorful skeletons doing the skeleton scat! Wiggle Town is decorated like never seen before with cobwebs, pumpkins, bats, and spiders. All the wiggly friends are there to join the party and sing and dance along...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Language
Español
Description
Addressing climate change is the existential question of the time, but climate change and biodiversity 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 for increasing and maintaining bio-diversity, Campanarios de Azaba Nature Reserve in Western Spain. It immerses the viewer in a magical world where humans and wildlife...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
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...
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber Inc
Edition
Widescreen ; single-sided.
Language
English
Description
There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission. The entire second season, 17 episodes, an artifact from a time now vanished forever, a compendium of portals into worlds unknown.
17) Link
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Language
English
Description
Young graduate student Jane Chase becomes the new assistant to an eccentric zoology professor at the remote home he shares with two brilliant chimpanzees and an elderly orangutan butler named Link. But when one of the chimps is found dead and the professor mysteriously disappears, Link becomes dangerously aggressive towards Jane. Now, the time for 'monkey business' is over and the true terror is about to begin.
18) Burt's buzz
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Language
English
Description
Shapiro takes us into the reclusive backwoods world of beekeeper Shavitz, still committed to living off the land in Maine, as he has since the 1970s, in a renovated turkey coop with no running water. Shapiro explores Shavitz's peculiar relationship with the company he co-founded with Roxanne Quimby. The birth of Burt's Bees and its emergence as a lucrative brand may be the stuff of legend, but it's also contentious: Shavitz sold his shares decades...
19) Ali & Ava
Publisher
Greenwich Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Sparks fly as two people develop a deep connection despite the lingering legacy of past relationships. A compelling love story enveloped in music and imbued with humor. BAFTA nominee for Best British Film.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Language
English
Description
A music-based narrative about the day The Wiggles (Simon, Emma, Lachy, and Anthony) looked after baby Dorothy the Dinosaur for a day. Babysitting a dinosaur isn't that much different from babysitting a baby and The Wiggles are up for the challenge. Filmed on a brand-new Wiggle Town set complete with a road with a crossing, a pirate ship, The Wiggles' House, a beach, a dog kennel, and a rose garden, the adventure takes in much colorful scenery. Full...