# 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)