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Canadian Director Patricia Rozema’s Early Films Enjoy Revival As Kino Lorber, Mubi Take Rights To 4K Restorations

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EXCLUSIVE: Montreal-based film sales and marketing consultancy Film Associates International has unveiled a slew of international deals on new 4K restorations of the work of celebrated Canadian director Patricia Rozema.New York-based arthouse distributor Kino Lorber has acquired North America for her second and third features White Room (1990) and When Night Is Falling (1995) and U.S.

rights for more recent work Mouthpiece (2018).Regarded as a classic in the LGBTQ+ cinema canon, the lesbian love story When Night Is Falling revolves around a literature professor in a religious college, in a relationship with a male colleague, who embarks on a passionate affair with a female circus performer.Following its debut at the Berlinale in 1995, its North American release prompted unexpected controversy after Canada’s ‘The Globe and Mail’ dropped an advertisement for the film showing two women kissing, and in the U.S.

the Motion Picture Assn. of America applied an NC-17 rating.Rozema, who will be the head of Toronto’s Platform jury this year (following in the footsteps of Riz Ahmed and Jia Zhangke), remains active as a filmmaker but has seen her early work gain traction in recent months following Kino Lorber’s release of her debut film I’ve Heard The Mermaids Singing in 17 key cities across the U.S.

this spring.Now celebrating the 35th anniversary of the work’s Prix de la Jeunesse Award at Cannes, Rozema’s directorial debut launched on the Criterion Channel this month and will be released on Blu-Ray in North America by Kino Lorber on September 13.The disc release will feature extras including a new commentary by Patricia Rozema, a Q&A conversation with Rozema and artist Laurie Anderson, a video essay from film historian Daniel

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