September marks one of the most exciting times of year for film lovers: fall festival season. Throughout the month, some of the biggest heavy hitters will screen their selections, including Venice, Telluride, Toronto, and New York. 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. Get to know even more festival favorites on Kino Film Collection with our roundups of standout titles from the Toronto International Film Festival and the New York Film Festival.
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Premiering on September 5
Long Day's Journey Into Night
Bi Gan, China, France, 2019
Considered China's biggest arthouse hit of all time, Bi Gan's noir-tinged stunner follows a lost soul on a quest to find a missing woman from his past. Following leads across Guizhou province, he crosses paths with a series of colorful characters. When the search leads him to a dingy movie theater, the film launches into an hour-long shot that plunges its protagonist into a labyrinthine cityscape.
A Faithful Man
Louis Garrel, France, 2019
In Guy Maddin’s stylistic tale of obsessive love, one-legged Canadian soldier Lt. John Boles arrives in the northern Russian town of Archangel in 1919 where he becomes convinced that Veronkha is his dead wife. But Veronkha is already married to Philbin who also suffers from amnesia. What follows is a twisted love triangle as each person forgets who it is that they truly love.
Premiering on September 12
Wittgenstein
Derek Jarman, UK, 1993
A humorous portrait of one of the 20th century’s most influential philosophers, Ludwig Wittgenstein. This self-tortured Viennese eccentric, who preferred detective fiction and the musicals of Carmen Miranda to Aristotle, is a fitting subject for Derek Jarman’s irreverent imagination. A profoundly entertaining work about modern philosophy and the dark genius that revolutionized it.
My 20th Century
Ildikó Enyedi, Hungary, 1989
Ildikó Enyedi’s fairytale-like, unconventional ironic film luminaire was awarded the Camera d'Or at Cannes in 1989. On the eve of the 20th century, two twins who were separated as young girls, Lili the anarchist and Dóra a luxurious woman of loose morals, along with Mr. Z. who loves them as an entity, all reach the Hungarian border at the same time on board the Orient Express.
Premiering on September 19
On the Adament
Nicolas Philibert, France, 2023
Golden Bear winner at the Berlin Film Festival, this affecting documentary from Nicolas Philibert invites viewers aboard the Adamant, a floating refuge on Paris’ Seine River that offers care with dignity to adults living with mental illness. Witness the transformational power of community and the arts in this hopeful vision for a humanistic approach to mental health care.
To Be and To Have
Nicolas Philibert, Canada, 2002
The one-room schoolhouse, where one teacher instructs several grades at once, is generally regarded as a quaint thing of the past. However, Nicolas Philibert offers an in-depth look at a small school in rural France where one remarkable man has been doing the job of a small teaching staff for 20 years, and has taught several generations of bright and capable children along the way.
Premiering on September 26
Mille Milliards de Dollars
Henri Verneuil, France, 1982
From Henri Verneuil comes a captivating conspiracy thriller about a young journalist who uncovers an assassination plot hatched by an American multinational company intent on taking over several French industries. He aims to gather enough evidence to expose the American corporation for what it really is, before French companies start to disappear—along with their employees.
The Day and the Hour
René Clément, France, 1963
International screen icon Simone Signoret stars in this powerful World War II drama directed by René Clément. Signoret is superb as Thérèse, an isolated woman who unwittingly gets involved in the Resistance when British and American planes are shot down over Nazi-occupied France. She reluctantly agrees to smuggle the pilots into neutral Spain, and along the way finds herself falling in love.