We’re continuing our Staff Picks series with a vital member of the Kino Film Collection team: Jameson Oyer, Senior Director of Direct to Consumer Distribution and Digital Sales. As the curator for Kino Film Collection, she knows the library better than anyone. Each month, Jameson carefully selects the best of the best in indie, arthouse, and documentaries from around to add to the platform. Get to know Jameson and see her top five staff picks—and get ready to start streaming!

Since 1978, the Sundance Film Festival has brought together filmmakers and fans from around the country to discover new voices and showcase and celebrate the power of independent filmmaking. Sundance is where many now-legendary directors made their debuts, and Kino Film Collection is proud to be home to some of these early works.

Johan Grimonprez’s "Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat" is a kinetic, eye-opening collision of jazz, Cold War politics, and colonial history not found in textbooks. At the center of the story is the CIA-backed assassination of Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo, and a conspiracy between the U.S. and Belgium involving everyone from Louis Armstrong to Nikita Khrushchev with reverberations into the present day.

There are movies about women, and then there are movies that really speak to the female experience. The latter delve deeper to examine what it truly means to be a woman, reminding us that female stories are nuanced, diverse, and full. We’re spotlighting 12 films that explore the infinite facets of womanhood, starring feminist artists, all-girl rock bands, transgender pioneers, and more. Stream them all on Kino Film Collection.

Here are all of the new films coming to Kino Film Collection in January.

We’re rounding out our year-in-review with titles that the critics loved. Our team aims to bring the highest-quality stories from around the world to our audiences, so it’s rewarding to see Kino Film Collection titles land on critics’ own best of 2024 lists. Here are the standout films that have made the cut, along with some honorable mentions.

Nobody knows the Kino Film Collection library better than our own team. They don’t just help grow audiences; they’re avid film fans themselves. So when our teams were asked to choose their top staff picks of 2024, they jumped at the chance. Here’s what they (very passionately) recommended.

Kino Film Collection has had a banner first year, and that’s all thanks to you, our audience. We hope you’ve been able to discover and enjoy some international, classic, documentary, and indie gems on our service that you haven’t been able to find anywhere else. But there were a few titles that you seemed to particularly enjoy. In the spirit of Spotify Wrapped and other end-of-year lists, we’ve created our own recap of the top-streamed titles on Kino Film Collection. Behold: Your top audience picks of 2024, revealed!

Ramata Toulaye-Sy’s debut feature film ‘Banel & Adama’ follows a young married couple living in a rural Senegalese village as they dream of a life unconfined by tradition. Protagonist Banel is one of the most complex, multidimensional, and unforgettable female characters in recent film history. The visually stunning parable, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2023, explores love, duty, and supernatural retribution.

Here are all of the new films coming to Kino Film Collection in December.

Every era of art history has seen visionaries, geniuses, and madmen ahead of their time who eviscerated boundaries and redefined what art is. Kino Film Collection is home to a wide array of documentaries chronicling some of history’s boldest and brightest artists, including the newly released Hieronymus Bosch: Touched by the Devil. We’re highlighting 12 titles that give a thorough crash course in art history. Stream these, and more art documentaries, on Kino Film Collection now.

When you think of film noir, chances are classic American titles like The Maltese Falcon, The Big Sleep, or Double Indemnity come to mind. But film noir is largely rooted in French cinema. Starting with its poetic realism movement in the 1930s, the French heavily influenced American noir and continued to produce important contributions to the genre throughout the 1940s and '50s and well into the '60s. In celebration of Noirvember, we’re spotlighting some essential French noir films. Stream them all on Kino Film Collection this month.

Agnieszka Holland’s 'Green Border' examines the ongoing migrant crisis at the Poland-Belarus border through the eyes of migrants, border guards, and activists. The result is an unflinching yet thoughtful look at an impossibly complex crisis from all angles. 'Green Border' will give you an urgent new perspective on this global humanitarian crisis.

This November, Kino Film Collection is celebrating its one-year anniversary! To honor this momentous milestone, we’re turning it over to our staff, who know and love the Kino Film Collection library better than anyone. We're kicking off the series with Richard Lorber, the Chairman and CEO of Kino Lorber Media Group. Get to know Richard in his own words and hear his favorite film recommendations.

Here are all of the new films coming to Kino Film Collection in November.

NBC’s “Brilliant Minds,” starring Zachary Quinto, is a new medical series that follows the work of neurologist Dr. Oliver Wolf. Based on the life and work of real-life neurologist Dr. Oliver Sacks, the show sheds light on neurodivergence and aims to destigmatize it. But to truly get the most out of this acclaimed new series, get to know the man who inspired it by streaming “Oliver Sacks: His Own Life” on Kino Film Collection and by reading on for some fascinating facts about the man who changed neuroscience forever.

With modern filmmaking techniques, genre-bending storytelling, and a new standard for acting that has transformed the traditional scream queen into Oscar®-worthy performances, horror has never been better. Some of the most exciting contemporary horror films have flown below the Hollywood radar. We’re proud to be home to some of the most one-of-a-kind, boundary-defying arthouse horror gems that are on their way to becoming classics. Stream them all on Kino Film Collection.

If you like the vintage horror of Dario Argento and Mario Bava, then we’re delighted to introduce to you their seedier, pervier cousins. From French filmmaker Jean Rollin to British sexploitation-slasher master Pete Walker, these are the filmmakers behind one of the more fringe and underrated horror subgenres: the erotic Euro cult films of the '60s and '70s. This Halloween, indulge in a vintage horror watchlist that’s lavishly gruesome and unabashedly sexual.

Robert Eggers’s highly anticipated Nosferatu is releasing Christmas 2024. Starring Bill Skarsgard, Willem Dafoe, Lily-Rose Depp, and Nicholas Hoult, the film is a remake of the original Nosferatu, a groundbreaking silent film from 1922.

The horror genre would not be what it is today without the visionaries of the silent film era. Kino Film Collection is proud to highlight six groundbreaking silent films that helped pave the way for horror as we know it.

Here are all of the new films coming to Kino Film Collection in October.

The New York Film Festival is one of the longest-running and most renowned film festivals in the U.S. Each fall, the festival showcases work from both established filmmakers and rising new talent from around the world. Kino Film Collection is home to dozens of films that have premiered at NYFF. Here are eight standout films of the last half century.

To celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month, we’ve curated a watchlist of films from some of the boldest contemporary voices in Latin American cinema.

We’re spotlighting some of our favorite films and documentaries that have premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival over the years.

This month, eight films that have premiered at prestigious festivals from around the world make their streaming debut on Kino Film Collection, from Bi Gan’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night to Ildikó Enyedi’s My 20th Century.

For this month's feature on Kino Film Collection, we've put together groupings of films by iconic directors so you can sample some of the most fascinating cinematic artists of our times.

Six all-time classics of French cinema directed by undisputed masters of the form are coming to Kino Film Collection in July, perfect for celebrating Bastille Day.

The New York Times recommends Kino Film Collection, calling us "an art house answer to what’s missing on some of the more popular streamers" and highlighting its curation and "excellent" image quality.

In honor of Pride Month, Kino Film Collection is highlighting our library's robust collection of LGBTQ+ stories! Stream dozens of documentaries, indies, and classics from around the world, all while exploring the rich diversity of the queer experience.

Stream acclaimed arthouse films from the Kino Lorber library with a direct subscription and our brand new apps for Roku, Apple TV, Android TV, and Fire TV.

This month, Kino Film Collection shines a spotlight on the Cannes Film Festival. The French festival is one of the most important in the world and it's where we've picked up many of our most celebrated and memorable films over the years.

From a French union thriller starring Isabelle Huppert to a celebrated film by Taiwanese auteur Tsai Ming-liang and a classic documentary about Outlaw Country, there’s something for everyone coming to Kino Film Collection this month.

From a fascinating documentary about artist Hilma af Klint to a staging of T.S. Eliot by Ralph Fiennes and a moving French drama directed by Mathieu Amalric and starring Vicky Krieps, there’s something for everyone coming to Kino Film Collection this month.

Celebrate Black History Month with a 1925 masterpiece by pioneering Black filmmaker Oscar Micheaux and starring Paul Robeson, plus a contemporary punk Afrofuturist musical by Saul Williams. Then dip your toes in some Euro-cult classics from France, Italy, and the UK.

Kino Lorber is proud to announce that 'Four Daughters' has been nominated for Best Documentary Feature Film in the 96th Academy Awards®. Stream it now on Kino Film Collection.

From the Oscar®-nominated documentary 'Four Daughters' to Sundance award-winning British comedy 'Scrapper' to ‘80s lesbian indie classic 'I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing,' there’s something for everyone coming to Kino Film Collection this month.

Here are all of the new films coming to Kino Film Collection in December.

Kino Lorber, a leading name in independent film distribution for over 45 years, has launched Kino Film Collection, a new streaming service featuring new releases fresh from theaters along with hundreds of films from our expansive library of more than 4,000 titles, many now streaming for the first time.