The Cinema Guild

The Cinema Guild Inc. is an American film distribution company. It was established by Philip Hobel and Mary-Ann Hobel, producers known for their work in documentaries and features, including the film Tender Mercies.

The Cinema Guild

Industry	Film distribution
Founded	1968; 57 years ago (1968)
Founder	Philip Hobel Mary-Ann Hobel
Headquarters	New York City, U.S.
Products	Motion pictures, DVDs, Blu-rays
Website	http://www.cinemaguild.com

Since 1968, the Cinema Guild has been a distributor of both documentary and fiction films (narrative features and shorts), offering distribution in all markets, including educational, non-theatrical, theatrical, television, cable, internet, and home video.

The Cinema Guild launched its own home video brand in March 2009.^[1] The company released its first Blu-ray, Marwencol, in 2011.^[2]

Internationally acclaimed filmmakers who have released films through the Cinema Guild include Claire Denis, Jacques Rivette, Agnès Varda, Pedro Costa, Béla Tarr, Hong Sang-soo, Alexander Sokurov, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, and Kazik Radwanski.^[3]

The distributor has also worked with such U.S.-based independent filmmakers as Andrew Bujalski, Jem Cohen, and Matthew Porterfield.

Releases

• 24 City (Jia Zhangke, 2008)
• 35 Shots of Rum (Claire Denis, 2008)
• The Beaches of Agnès (Agnès Varda, 2008)
• Jerichow (Christian Petzold, 2008)
• The Order of Myths (Margaret Brown, 2008)
• Our Beloved Month of August (Miguel Gomes, 2008)
• Shirin (Abbas Kiarostami, 2008)
• Around a Small Mountain (Jacques Rivette, 2009)
• Beeswax (Andrew Bujalski, 2009)
• The Betrayal (Ellen Kuras, 2009)
• Change Nothing (Pedro Costa, 2009)
• Everyone Else (Maren Ade, 2009)
• Sweetgrass (Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Ilisa Barbash, 2009)
• Aurora (Cristi Puiu, 2010)
• Marwencol (Jeff Malmberg, 2010)
• Putty Hill (Matthew Porterfield, 2010)
• The Strange Case of Angelica (Manoel de Oliveira, 2010)
• The Day He Arrives (Hong Sang-soo, 2011)
• Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2011)
• Patience (After Sebald) (Grant Gee, 2011)
• The Turin Horse (Béla Tarr and Ágnes Hranitzky, 2011)
• Two Years at Sea (Ben Rivers, 2011)
• Planet of Snail (Yi Seung Jun, 2012)
• Neighboring Sounds (Kleber Mendonça Filho, 2012)
• Step Up to the Plate (Paul Lacoste, 2012)
• The Law in These Parts (Ra’anan Alexandrowicz, 2012)
• Night Across the Street (Raúl Ruiz, 2012)
• Leviathan (Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Verena Paravel, 2012)
• Free Voice of Labor: The Jewish Anarchists (Steven Fischler and Joel Sucher, 1980)
• Andre Gregory: Before and After Dinner (Cindy Kleine, 2013)
• Museum Hours (Jem Cohen, 2012)
• Viola (Matías Piñeiro, 2013)
• The Last Time I Saw Macao (João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra da Mata, 2013)
• Cousin Jules (Dominique Benicheti, 2013)
• Manakamana (Stephanie Spray, Pacho Velez, 2013)
• What Now? Remind Me (Joaquim Pinto, 2013)
• Norte, the End of History (Lav Diaz, 2013)
• Stray Dogs (Tsai Ming-liang, 2013)
• Actress (Robert Greene, 2014)
• Los Angeles Plays Itself (Thom Andersen, 2014)
• Maidan (Sergei Loznitsa, 2014)
• When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism (Corneliu Porumboiu, 2015)
• Jauja (Lisandro Alonso, 2015)
• Because I Was a Painter (Christophe Cognet, 2015)
• About Elly (Asghar Farhadi, 2015)
• The Princess of France (Matías Piñeiro, 2015)
• Horse Money (Pedro Costa, 2015)
• Counting (Jem Cohen, 2015)
• Starless Dreams (Mehrdad Oskouei, 2017)
• In Pursuit of Silence (Patrick Shen, 2017)
• The Wrong Light (Josie Swantek Heitz and Dave Adams, 2017)
• The Death of Louis XIV (Albert Serra, 2017)
• 4 Days in France (Jérôme Reybaud, 2017)
• On the Beach at Night Alone (Hong Sang-soo, 2017)
• Western (Valeska Grisebach, 2017)
• El Mar La Mar (Joshua Bonnetta & J.P. Sniadecki, 2017)
• Claire's Camera (Hong Sangsoo, 2017)
• The Day After (Hong Sangsoo, 2017)
• En el Séptimo Día (On the Seventh Day) (Jim McKay, 2018)
• Hale County This Morning, This Evening (RaMell Ross, 2018)
• The Wild Pear Tree (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2019)
• Hotel by the River (Hong Sangsoo, 2019)
• Suburban Birds (Qiu Sheng, 2019)
• Grass (Hong Sangsoo, 2018)
• The Wandering Soap Opera (Raul Ruiz, 2019)
• End of the Century (Lucio Castro, 2019)
• I'm Leaving Now (Lindsey Cordero & Armando Croda, 2019)
• Chinese Portrait (Wang Xiaoshuai, 2019)
• I Was at Home, But... (Angela Schanelec, 2020)
• Liberté (Albert Serra, 2020)
• Yourself and Yours (Hong Sangsoo, 2020)
• Sunless Shadows (Mehrdad Oskouei, 2020)
• Ghost Tropic (Bas Devos, 2020)
• Film About a Father Who (Lynne Sachs, 2020)
• Un Film Dramatique (Éric Baudelaire, 2020)
• Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue (Jia Zhangke, 2020)
• The Woman Who Ran (Hong Sangsoo, 2021)
• 499 (Rodrigo Reyes, 2021)
• Isabella (Matías Piñeiro, 2021)
• Anne at 13,000 ft. (Kazik Radwanski, 2021)
• The Two Sights (Joshua Bonnetta, 2021)
• Expedition Content (Ernst Karel and Veronika Kusumaryati, 2021)
• So Dear, So Lovely (Diana Allan, 2021)
• Introduction (Hong Sang-soo, 2021)
• A Night of Knowing Nothing (Payal Kapadia, 2021)
• Rock Bottom Riser (Fern Silva, 2017)
• The Girl and the Spider (Ramon Zürcher and Silvan Zürcher, 2021)
• In Front of Your Face (Hong Sang-soo, 2021)
• Cane Fire (Anthony Banua-Simon, 2021)
• I Am A Town (Mischa Richter, 2021)
• Dos Estaciones (Juan Pablo González, 2022)
• The Novelist's Film (Hong Sang-soo, 2022)
• Walk Up (Hong Sang-soo, 2022)
• Human Flowers Of Flesh (Helena Wittmann, 2022)
• In Our Day (Hong Sang-soo, 2023)^[4]
• Last Things (Deborah Stratman, 2023)
• Richland (Irene Lusztig, 2023)
• The Tuba Thieves (Alison O'Daniel, 2024)