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Janus Films, founded in 1956, boasts a library of over 1,200 films including works from some of cinema’s greatest masters—among them Agnès Varda, Michelangelo Antonioni, Sergei Eisenstein ...
Sideshow and Janus Films have acquired North American rights for German director Christian Petzold’s new film Afire, following its award-winning world premiere in competition at the Berlin Film ...
Sony Pictures Classics saw a nice opening and a no. 10 spot at the domestic box office for Oh, Hi! on a weekend with a wide ...
I was really happy at that turnout,” says Alan Cerny, a Houston film critic and Kurosawa fan who introduced the sold-out ...
Janus Films has acquired all North American rights to distribute writer/director Sergei Loznitsa’s “Two Proescutors.” The film premiered in competition at the 78th Cannes Film Festival ...
Sideshow and Janus Films have acquired all North American rights to “All We Imagine as Light,” written and directed by Payal Kapadia. The movie is the first Indian film to screen in official ...
Sideshow and Janus Films have acquired the North American rights to Alain Guiraudie’s queer crime thriller “Misericordia,” starring Félix Kysyl, Catherine Frot, Jean-Baptiste Durand ...
Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa’s feature follows a law school grad taking on corruption in the Soviet system and paying the consequences.
Sideshow and Janus Films have acquired the U.S. rights to “No Bears,” the next film from Iranian director Jafar Panahi, who is imprisoned and serving a six-year prison sentence by the Iranian ...
Janus was born out of the U.S.’ post-World War II interest in international film. Harvard University friends Haliday and Harvey began programming foreign and art house films in 1953 at their ...
EXCLUSIVE: Janus Films has acquired North American rights to the documentary Faya Dayi, the feature directorial debut of filmmaker Jessica Beshir. Janus is planning a theatrical release later in ...