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.

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. The company released its first Blu-ray, Marwencol, in 2011.

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.

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)
 * Last Things (Deborah Stratman, 2023)
 * Richland (Irene Lusztig, 2023)
 * The Tuba Thieves (Alison O'Daniel, 2024)