Grasshopper Film

A distributor of independent films and documentaries, including VITALINA VARELA, KAILI BLUES, NOCTURAMA, BLACK MOTHER and Oscar nominee LAST MEN IN ALEPPO.

[Sylvia Savadjian @Savadjian]

Pleased to see David Usui's Been Here Stay Here among the "best documentaries" picks! cc @GhopperFilm

[The Film Stage 📽 @TheFilmStage]

There's a fragility to the films of Ben Rivers––shot on celluloid and hand-processed––that can make them like handling ancient relics, works that threaten to break down as you watch. But that perishability accounts for their extraordinary vitality.

Read @LeonardoGoi's review of #MaresNest, opening today at @AnthologyFilm: https://t.co/5XcE0FPOS0

[Grasshopper Film @GhopperFilm]

@jasperbasch 🙏

[Deadline @DEADLINE]

Grasshopper Film Acquires Kogonada's Sundance Pic 'Zi' Starring Haley Lu Richardson https://t.co/InlmUJgcBK

[The Film Stage 📽 @TheFilmStage]

Kogonada's #Zi has been acquired by @GhopperFilm for a fall release.

[Grasshopper Film @GhopperFilm]

We are delighted to announce the release of Kogonada's extraordinary feature zi starring Michelle Mao, Haley Lu Richardson and Jin Ha! Coming to theaters this fall. @DEADLINE
https://t.co/vkFrpvT6tM

[Carlos Aguilar @Carlos_Film]

@KinoLorber 2nd match of the day:

Brazil: ARABY 🇧🇷 (one of my favorite films of the last decade)

vs.

Morocco: HORSES OF GOD 🇲🇦

[Film at Lincoln Center @FilmLinc]

- Bibiliomania: A Preface to CHRONOVISOR | August 28-September 3

Spanning Hollywood adventures and armchair mysteries to ghost stories, essay films, structural experiments, and text cinema, this series traces the many ways artists have transformed the taciturn labor of reading and research into cinema. This summer, come study with us at the Walter Reade Theater, and remember: our tickets make handy bookmarks, too.

[Film at Lincoln Center @FilmLinc]

- CHRONOVISOR | Opens September 4 with Kevin Walker and Jack Auen in person

Dense with on-screen text from real primary sources, scored to music by Gustav Holst, and shot on 16mm in the pooling shadows of many of New York City’s historic libraries, CHRONOVISOR is a witty literary mystery about one of the many secrets that still hide out in libraries, waiting for someone with time, curiosity, and a JSTOR login to come along and disturb the dusty stacks—a standout of this year’s @ndnf and one of the year’s most singular and formally assured feature debuts.

[Carlos Aguilar @Carlos_Film]

A pleasure to moderated a Q&A with FORASTERA director Lucía Aleñar Iglesias tonight. The film is an alluring, ghostly gem. One of the biggest surprises of the year and one of the best debuts of the year. It opens at the Monica Film Center on Friday.

[Nora Lee Mandel @NLM_MavensNest]

FORASTERA Spanish debut dir Lucía Aleñar Iglesias expands her short w/DP Agnès Piqué Corbera, Italian Editor Paola Freddi & Swedish composer Anna van Hausswolf- family grief morphs into ghostliness on sunny Majorca
@FilmForumNYC , CA DC + via @GhopperFilm
https://t.co/JAbnNhZHc3

[Savina Petkova @SavinaPetkova]

a tiff film i so enjoyed last year is out in the states! FORASTERA is my favourite kind of coming-of-age film, rich in emotional ambiguity – my review for cineuropa below:
https://t.co/RudNuziaca

[Sarah G. Vincent @SarahGVincent]

Think of a mournful, lyrical "Freaky Friday" with shades of a horror free Hereditary. Lucía Aleñar Iglesias' debut film "Forastera" is a sensitive, transcendent drama about grief. Zoe Stein is the 2nd coming of Saoirse Ronan. Read my full movie review here https://t.co/MsWrYZxrVg

[Reverse Shot @reverse_shot]

FORASTERA, Spanish filmmaker Lucia Aleñar Iglesias’s marvelous directorial debut opens today. Review by @Reckless_Edit:
https://t.co/G8jrftIUfs

[Carlos Aguilar @Carlos_Film]

The film FORASTERA opens in NYC today. It’s one of the best discoveries of the year. An exquisitely done film about grief and ghosts on the same wavelength as PERSONAL SHOPPER and BIRTH. It has a few gasp-inducing moments of revelation. I reviewed it for @ebertvoices. Link below.

[Film Forum @FilmForumNYC]

FORASTERA, Lucía Aleñar Iglesias’ luminous debut opens today, with Q&As with Iglesias tonight & tmrw's 7pm shows.

"SPELLBINDING...a major discovery" - @Carlos_Film, @ebertvoices

https://t.co/8NAI3PDDYR

[The Film Stage 📽 @TheFilmStage]

Lucía Aleñar Iglesias’ feature debut #Forastera is a beautifully shot coming-of-age story about the preciousness of life.

Read @jaredmobarak's review as the TIFF selection opens at @FilmForumNYC: https://t.co/4STeDccMTs

[Grasshopper Film @GhopperFilm]

Lucía Aleñar Iglesias, whose acclaimed debut feature FORASTERA opens @FilmForumNYC tomorrow, shares her 10 (ok, 11) favorite films from the past 10 years, from PHANTOM THREAD to this year’s A POET. https://t.co/76hMjGqTng

[Chris Cassingham @CCassingham]

For the night crowd: I interviewed Lucia Aleñar Iglecias ahead of the release of her debut feature, Forastera. It’s haunting and sensual and provocative. A very different kind of coming-of-age film. https://t.co/Zei4Kd2KRd