Zeitgeist Information

Celebrating more than 20 years as one of America’s preeminent independent distributors, New York-based Zeitgeist Films has built an impressively diverse catalogue of foreign, documentary and arthouse titles by such renowned directors as Todd Haynes, Jan Svankmajer, Peter Greenaway, Abbas Kiarostami, Guy Maddin, Kirby Dick, Atom Egoyan, Agnès Varda, François Ozon, Derek Jarman, Yvonne Rainer, Olivier Assayas, Philippe Garrel, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Carlos Saura and the Quay Brothers. Recent releases include Oscar winner Nowhere in Africa; blockbuster doc The Corporation; dance doc hit Ballets Russes; Oscar nominee Sophie Scholl—The Final Days; Oscar nominee My Country, My Country; Sundance winner Into Great Silence; 2008 Oscar nominee Trouble the Water; and the Cannes-winning Kazakh charmer Tulpan. Launched in 2001, Zeitgeist Video has released dozens of highly praised DVDs, including the remastered Two-Disc Edition of Quay shorts, entitled PHANTOM MUSEUMS; a Four-Disc Box Set of Jarman masterworks entitled GLITTERBOX, with Oscar winner Tilda Swinton; an Essential Edition of Assayas’ cult fave Irma Vep starring Maggie Cheung; and the “Repressed & Remastered” Edition of Maddin’s 1992 mountain film classic Careful.