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Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentKino Lorber’s acquired U.S. rights to Milcho Manchevski’s “Willow” which will represent North Macedonia in the Oscars’ international feature film race.

Also Read: Neon Acquires 'Night of the Kings,' Ivory Coast Oscar Submission, After Venice PremierePoland has been a roll at the Oscars, picking up nominations for the country’s last two submissions, including Pawel Pawlikowski’s “Cold War” in 2018 and Jan Komasa’s “Corpus Christi” in 2019.Szumowska made her first English language feature with “The Other Lamb,” which premiered at TIFF in 2019, and Kino Lorber previously released her film “Elles.”Mariusz Włodarski, Viola Fügen, Agnieszka Wasiak

Tom Grater International Film ReporterKino Lorber has picked up North American rights to Never Gonna Snow Again, Malgorzata Szumowska’s Polish drama which is representing the country in this year’s International Oscar race. The distributor is lining up a theatrical release in Spring, 2021.The film debuted in competition at Venice this year.

Tom Grater International Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: Kino Lorber has acquired North American rights to Jeffrey Wolf’s documentary Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts and is planning to release in Spring 2021.The doc captures the life of the titular Bill Traylor who, in his late 80s, living homeless on the street in the thriving segregated black neighborhood of Montgomery, produced a body of extraordinary art.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentKino Lorber has acquired North American rights to “Born To Be,” Tania Cypriano’s critically acclaimed documentary which world premiered at the New York Film Festival. Kino Lorber is planning to release the documentary in virtual and physical cinemas on Nov.

Andreas Wiseman International EditorEXCLUSIVE: Kino Lorber has acquired U.S.

Patrick Hipes, Amanda N'Duka Passion River Films and 8 Above are teaming on the U.S. release of The Disrupted, the feature documentary debut of Sarah Colt, the Emmy-winning director of PBS’ American Experience docs about Walt Disney and Henry Ford, as well as The Polio Crusade and the Native American series We Shall Remain.The Disrupted, a look at rising income inequality in the U.S.

Tom Grater International Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: Kino Lorber has taken North American rights to Shatara Michelle Ford’s Test Pattern.The debut feature had its premiere at BlackStar Film Festival last year, where it won the Lionsgate/STARZ Producer Award, following which it also won the Narrative Features Jury Award at New Orleans Film Festival.Pic follows an interracial couple whose relationship is put to the test after a Black woman is sexually assaulted and her white boyfriend drives her from

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentKino Lorber has acquired U.S. distribution rights for Gero von Boehm’s documentary “Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful” from MK2 Films.“Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful” will have its virtual theatrical release on July 24 through Kino Marquee’s virtual cinema platform, which works with more than 400 arthouse theaters and organizations.

Kino Lorber has been busy over the past few months, helping arthouse cinemas survive during the COVID-19 pandemic with its Kino Marquee initiative. And that continues in the month of June with the release of three restored classics in queer cinema that were well ahead of their time.

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Kino Lorber has acquired the U.S. rights to persecuted Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof’s drama There Is No Evil, about executioners who enforce the death penalty in the Islamic Republic.

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With cinema giants shutting down across the country amid the coronavirus pandemic, Kino Lorber on Thursday said it is launching a online movie screening alternative called Kino Marquee. Kino Marquee will open with Bacurau, directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles and starring Sonia Braga and Udo Kier, which would otherwise have screened in traditional theaters.

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Kino Lorber has picked up the U.S. rights to Atom Egoyan's Guest of Honor, a family melodrama starring David Thewlis and Laysla De Oliveira (Locke and Key), after its world premiere at Venice.Lorber plans a late 2020 theatrical release for the soap about a restaurant health inspector and his daughter, a high school music teacher, sifting through their troubled history.

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Kino Lorber has picked up the North American rights to two upcoming films by cult filmmaker Abel Ferrara, including Tommaso, a Rome-set drama starring Willem Dafoe that bowed in Cannes.Kino Lorber also nabbed The Projectionist— Ferrara's documentary about a Greek Cypriot immigrant, Nicolas "Nick" Nicolaou, trying to keep New York City art house cinemas open in competition with the multiplex — which bowed at Tribeca.The autobiographical drama Tommasoabout a director and recovering addict

“Buoyancy,” the Australian-made story that has gathered momentum as a powerhouse depiction of human trafficking, is set to be released in North American theaters. Rights were acquired by specialty distributor Kino Lorber, which will give it a cinema opening in Spring 2020 ahead of video on demand and home video outings.