Kino Lorber‘s subscription streaming service Kino Film Collection is expanding with an exciting new home. The subscription channel has launched today on The Roku Channel, IndieWire has learned exclusively, giving the indie and arthouse film catalogue an even wider reach.
Kino Film Collection launched in 2023 on Prime Video Channels, where it remains, but it also gets the chance to spread its wings to The Roku Channel users as a direct-to-consumer offering, which should bring more eyeballs and more revenue for Kino Lorber. It’s also available as a standalone app downloadable through Apple, Roku, and Fire TV. In July, Kino Lorber is adding to the streaming collection some classic films by Jafar Panahi, the Iranian auteur whose next feature “It Was Just an Accident” won the Palme D’Or at this year’s Cannes and will release later this year from Neon.
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The Panahi films being added are “Jafar Panahi’s Taxi,” “3 Faces,” and his son Panah Panahi’s “Hit the Road.” “Taxi,” one of Panahi’s best known films for its curious structure about him being banned from making movies and instead involving him posing as a taxi driver to highlight Iranian social issues, was released by Kino Lorber back in 2015 and it made nearly $4 million at the worldwide box office. His follow-up “3 Faces” won the Best Screenplay prize at Cannes and also made $2.1 million worldwide.
Those movies join a library of several hundred movies from Kino Lorber titles available for streaming. The current #1 film on the platform is “Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story,” which is a documentary about Liza Minnelli that first premiered at last year’s Tribeca.
Some other recent titles include the Maria Schneider biopic “Being Maria,” starring Anamaria Vartolomei and Matt Dillon, the documentary “Every Little Thing” about hummingbirds that warmed our hearts, and “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat,” which was nominated for the Best Documentary Feature Oscar this year. Throughout June, the Kino Film Collection also had a series of essential Pride films to celebrate LGBTQ+ stories, as well as highlights on early queer films from the Weimar Republic and a collection of must-watch queer documentaries.
Kino Film Collection offers a 7-day free-trial but then costs $5.99 per month or $59.99 per year.
Below are a list of some of the other new movie additions Kino Film Collection is highlighting for the month of July, including spotlighting larger collections called “American Indies” and “French List.”
July 3
“The American Nurse”
July 10
“Deadly Circuit”
“Vice and Virtue”
July 17
“As I Open My Eyes”
“How to Come Alive with Norman Mailer”
July 24
“The Anonymous People”
“The Bridge”
July 31
“Hussy”
