Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, and Churchill meet in a purgatorial netherworld through deepfake animation in the Russian director's new film.

Fairytale, director Aleksandr Sokurov’s first film in seven years, arrived at its world premiere at last year’s Locarno Film Festival with little advance notice. A fanciful title and a cryptic artist’s statement was all most viewers had to go on when encountering what is, as I wrote in my festival report, arguably “the Russian master’s most left-field offering yet: a speculative fiction made with deepfake technology that imagines an encounter between Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Benito Mussolini, and Winston Churchill.”

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4K Restoration of 1995 film. 24 hours in the lives of three young men in the French suburbs the day after a violent riot.

Juno Films acquires Mark Cousins’ bold new documentary looks at death in the atomic age, and life too.

Chuck Smith's "Barbara Rubin and The Exploding New York Underground" will open in New York at IFC on May 24th and in Los Angeles at Laemmle on June 12th. 

An astonishing treasure of the silent cinema, Shiraz: A Romance of India is one of three cinematic collaborations between pioneering star/producer Himansu Rai and German-born director Franz Osten to be shot on location in India, restored by the BFI from original elements some ninety years after its initial release. Featuring a new, specially commissioned score by the Grammy Award-nominated Anoushka Shankar.

A Juno Films release of a BFI National Archive Restoration.