Strand Releasing
U.S. Distributor of independent, foreign, art house, documentary & LGBTQ+ films since 1989.

Barbara Forever 🤝 a Theater Near You
…….. starting with @filmforumnyc on September 4!!!!
I am endlessly grateful for all the support for this film. Thank you to Kristen Stewart, Maggie McLean, and Dylan Meyer of Nevermind Pictures for coming on to envision the big life for this movie with us + our distribution extraordinaires at @strandreleasing
To Marcus Hu of Strand and Christine Vachon of Killer Films for making & releasing independent queer films for decades, making it possible for this one. What a dream to come together to share Barbara’s vision for the world with audiences.
Pinch me man. Then come see our movie!!!!!! ❤️🔥

Barbara Forever 🤝 a Theater Near You
…….. starting with @filmforumnyc on September 4!!!!
I am endlessly grateful for all the support for this film. Thank you to Kristen Stewart, Maggie McLean, and Dylan Meyer of Nevermind Pictures for coming on to envision the big life for this movie with us + our distribution extraordinaires at @strandreleasing
To Marcus Hu of Strand and Christine Vachon of Killer Films for making & releasing independent queer films for decades, making it possible for this one. What a dream to come together to share Barbara’s vision for the world with audiences.
Pinch me man. Then come see our movie!!!!!! ❤️🔥

Barbara Forever 🤝 a Theater Near You
…….. starting with @filmforumnyc on September 4!!!!
I am endlessly grateful for all the support for this film. Thank you to Kristen Stewart, Maggie McLean, and Dylan Meyer of Nevermind Pictures for coming on to envision the big life for this movie with us + our distribution extraordinaires at @strandreleasing
To Marcus Hu of Strand and Christine Vachon of Killer Films for making & releasing independent queer films for decades, making it possible for this one. What a dream to come together to share Barbara’s vision for the world with audiences.
Pinch me man. Then come see our movie!!!!!! ❤️🔥

Barbara Forever 🤝 a Theater Near You
…….. starting with @filmforumnyc on September 4!!!!
I am endlessly grateful for all the support for this film. Thank you to Kristen Stewart, Maggie McLean, and Dylan Meyer of Nevermind Pictures for coming on to envision the big life for this movie with us + our distribution extraordinaires at @strandreleasing
To Marcus Hu of Strand and Christine Vachon of Killer Films for making & releasing independent queer films for decades, making it possible for this one. What a dream to come together to share Barbara’s vision for the world with audiences.
Pinch me man. Then come see our movie!!!!!! ❤️🔥

"'I believe that we must use cinema for its enormous power to alter perception and not soothe the rich,' she says. 'It’s not about delivering a message but rather about showing how an idea functions.'"
Thank you @carlosfilm and @latimes for this story on Lucrecia Martel and Our Land.

** STRAND RELEASING ACQUIRES BASEBALL DOCUMENTARY — DIAMOND DIPLOMACY by YURIKO GAMO ROMER — FOR NORTH AMERICAN DISTRIBUTION!! **
We’re thrilled to finally share this exciting news with the world: after a 12-year journey, DIAMOND DIPLOMACY — directed by Yuriko Gamo Romer and produced by Yuriko, Marc Smolowitz, and Loi Ameera Almeron — has officially been acquired for North American distribution by the legendary independent distributor Strand Releasing!
As announced this week in Variety, Strand plans to release the film theatrically this fall, and we honestly could not imagine a better home for our movie. Strand has championed daring, global, independent cinema for decades, and we’re deeply honored to join their extraordinary family of films.
This moment belongs to an incredible team of collaborators, supporters, artists, historians, athletes, archivists, partners, and believers who helped carry this film across more than a decade of work. THANK YOU.
Special gratitude to our Executive Producers Glen S. Fukushima, Steven Okazaki, Jacqueline Glover, and Mari Nakachi for your faith, guidance, and support.
And to every donor, sponsor, partner organization, festival, and community member who helped us get here — this milestone belongs to you, too.
We can’t wait to share DIAMOND DIPLOMACY with audiences across North America this fall. ⚾️🇺🇸🇯🇵 To read the full announcement, see link in bio.
#diamonddiplomacy #strandreleasing #documentaryfilm #baseball #japaneseamerican

** STRAND RELEASING ACQUIRES BASEBALL DOCUMENTARY — DIAMOND DIPLOMACY by YURIKO GAMO ROMER — FOR NORTH AMERICAN DISTRIBUTION!! **
We’re thrilled to finally share this exciting news with the world: after a 12-year journey, DIAMOND DIPLOMACY — directed by Yuriko Gamo Romer and produced by Yuriko, Marc Smolowitz, and Loi Ameera Almeron — has officially been acquired for North American distribution by the legendary independent distributor Strand Releasing!
As announced this week in Variety, Strand plans to release the film theatrically this fall, and we honestly could not imagine a better home for our movie. Strand has championed daring, global, independent cinema for decades, and we’re deeply honored to join their extraordinary family of films.
This moment belongs to an incredible team of collaborators, supporters, artists, historians, athletes, archivists, partners, and believers who helped carry this film across more than a decade of work. THANK YOU.
Special gratitude to our Executive Producers Glen S. Fukushima, Steven Okazaki, Jacqueline Glover, and Mari Nakachi for your faith, guidance, and support.
And to every donor, sponsor, partner organization, festival, and community member who helped us get here — this milestone belongs to you, too.
We can’t wait to share DIAMOND DIPLOMACY with audiences across North America this fall. ⚾️🇺🇸🇯🇵 To read the full announcement, see link in bio.
#diamonddiplomacy #strandreleasing #documentaryfilm #baseball #japaneseamerican

** STRAND RELEASING ACQUIRES BASEBALL DOCUMENTARY — DIAMOND DIPLOMACY by YURIKO GAMO ROMER — FOR NORTH AMERICAN DISTRIBUTION!! **
We’re thrilled to finally share this exciting news with the world: after a 12-year journey, DIAMOND DIPLOMACY — directed by Yuriko Gamo Romer and produced by Yuriko, Marc Smolowitz, and Loi Ameera Almeron — has officially been acquired for North American distribution by the legendary independent distributor Strand Releasing!
As announced this week in Variety, Strand plans to release the film theatrically this fall, and we honestly could not imagine a better home for our movie. Strand has championed daring, global, independent cinema for decades, and we’re deeply honored to join their extraordinary family of films.
This moment belongs to an incredible team of collaborators, supporters, artists, historians, athletes, archivists, partners, and believers who helped carry this film across more than a decade of work. THANK YOU.
Special gratitude to our Executive Producers Glen S. Fukushima, Steven Okazaki, Jacqueline Glover, and Mari Nakachi for your faith, guidance, and support.
And to every donor, sponsor, partner organization, festival, and community member who helped us get here — this milestone belongs to you, too.
We can’t wait to share DIAMOND DIPLOMACY with audiences across North America this fall. ⚾️🇺🇸🇯🇵 To read the full announcement, see link in bio.
#diamonddiplomacy #strandreleasing #documentaryfilm #baseball #japaneseamerican

** STRAND RELEASING ACQUIRES BASEBALL DOCUMENTARY — DIAMOND DIPLOMACY by YURIKO GAMO ROMER — FOR NORTH AMERICAN DISTRIBUTION!! **
We’re thrilled to finally share this exciting news with the world: after a 12-year journey, DIAMOND DIPLOMACY — directed by Yuriko Gamo Romer and produced by Yuriko, Marc Smolowitz, and Loi Ameera Almeron — has officially been acquired for North American distribution by the legendary independent distributor Strand Releasing!
As announced this week in Variety, Strand plans to release the film theatrically this fall, and we honestly could not imagine a better home for our movie. Strand has championed daring, global, independent cinema for decades, and we’re deeply honored to join their extraordinary family of films.
This moment belongs to an incredible team of collaborators, supporters, artists, historians, athletes, archivists, partners, and believers who helped carry this film across more than a decade of work. THANK YOU.
Special gratitude to our Executive Producers Glen S. Fukushima, Steven Okazaki, Jacqueline Glover, and Mari Nakachi for your faith, guidance, and support.
And to every donor, sponsor, partner organization, festival, and community member who helped us get here — this milestone belongs to you, too.
We can’t wait to share DIAMOND DIPLOMACY with audiences across North America this fall. ⚾️🇺🇸🇯🇵 To read the full announcement, see link in bio.
#diamonddiplomacy #strandreleasing #documentaryfilm #baseball #japaneseamerican

'Departures' Review: This Gay, British Dark Comedy Is a Cult Classic in the Making
Thank you for the wonderful review @indiewireand @davidopie7
Argentine auteur Lucrecia Martel makes her first foray into feature documentary filmmaking with this haunting investigation into the killing of an Indigenous community leader 🎞️
#TIFF50 Official Selection OUR LAND opens at TIFF Lightbox on May 6. Grab tickets through the link in our bio.
#ourland #documentary #argentina

Wednesday! 🛥️ 👭
ATTENBERG
directed by Athina Rachel Tsangari
Greece, 2010, 97 min
+
CHEVALIER
directed by Athina Rachel Tsangari
Greece, Germany, 2015, 105 min
Join us on 5/6 as our Athina Rachel Tsangari retrospective moves to the Los Feliz 3 (@am_cinematheque) for an evening pairing of the Greek director's most beloved and influential features.
ATTENBERG - Q&A w/ Carson Lund (EEPHUS);
CHEVALIER - Q&A w/ Christopher Blauvelt (DP for THE MASTERMIND; MAY DECEMBER)
Bio link for tickets. 🎟️
About ATTENBERG:
In its irreverent use of (new) Nouvelle Vague, musical, melodrama, and nature documentary, ATTENBERG symbolically visualizes a change in generation and perspective as a father and daughter gently negotiate their individual rites of passage. The film follows a visionary architect who has come home to die in the vanishing industrial town that is his legacy to his daughter. Meanwhile, his daughter (played by Ariane Labed) is exploring the mysteries of kissing with her girlfriend, and the beyond with a visiting engineer. Tsangari’s film—with a soundtrack featuring Françoise Hardy and Suicide—is poised between sincerity and hilarity, tradition and experimentation.
About CHEVALIER:
Six men set out on the Aegean Sea aboard a yacht, and before long, male bonding and one-upmanship give way to a loosely defined yet hotly contested competition to determine which of them is “the best in general.” As the games and trials grow more elaborate and absurd—everything is up for judgment, from sleeping positions to cholesterol levels to furniture-assembly skills—insecurities emerge and power relations shift. As in her breakthrough ATTENBERG, Tsangari balances anthropological precision with a wry and wholly original sense of humor. Impeccably staged, crisply photographed, and buoyed by eclectic soundtrack choices (Petula Clark, Mark Lanegan), this maritime psychodrama becomes both funnier and richer in its implications as it progresses. What begins as a lampoon of bourgeois machismo and male anxiety develops into an incisive allegory for the state of contemporary Greece, and leaves a final impression as an empathetic, razor-sharp study of human nature itself.

Wednesday! 🛥️ 👭
ATTENBERG
directed by Athina Rachel Tsangari
Greece, 2010, 97 min
+
CHEVALIER
directed by Athina Rachel Tsangari
Greece, Germany, 2015, 105 min
Join us on 5/6 as our Athina Rachel Tsangari retrospective moves to the Los Feliz 3 (@am_cinematheque) for an evening pairing of the Greek director's most beloved and influential features.
ATTENBERG - Q&A w/ Carson Lund (EEPHUS);
CHEVALIER - Q&A w/ Christopher Blauvelt (DP for THE MASTERMIND; MAY DECEMBER)
Bio link for tickets. 🎟️
About ATTENBERG:
In its irreverent use of (new) Nouvelle Vague, musical, melodrama, and nature documentary, ATTENBERG symbolically visualizes a change in generation and perspective as a father and daughter gently negotiate their individual rites of passage. The film follows a visionary architect who has come home to die in the vanishing industrial town that is his legacy to his daughter. Meanwhile, his daughter (played by Ariane Labed) is exploring the mysteries of kissing with her girlfriend, and the beyond with a visiting engineer. Tsangari’s film—with a soundtrack featuring Françoise Hardy and Suicide—is poised between sincerity and hilarity, tradition and experimentation.
About CHEVALIER:
Six men set out on the Aegean Sea aboard a yacht, and before long, male bonding and one-upmanship give way to a loosely defined yet hotly contested competition to determine which of them is “the best in general.” As the games and trials grow more elaborate and absurd—everything is up for judgment, from sleeping positions to cholesterol levels to furniture-assembly skills—insecurities emerge and power relations shift. As in her breakthrough ATTENBERG, Tsangari balances anthropological precision with a wry and wholly original sense of humor. Impeccably staged, crisply photographed, and buoyed by eclectic soundtrack choices (Petula Clark, Mark Lanegan), this maritime psychodrama becomes both funnier and richer in its implications as it progresses. What begins as a lampoon of bourgeois machismo and male anxiety develops into an incisive allegory for the state of contemporary Greece, and leaves a final impression as an empathetic, razor-sharp study of human nature itself.

Wednesday! 🛥️ 👭
ATTENBERG
directed by Athina Rachel Tsangari
Greece, 2010, 97 min
+
CHEVALIER
directed by Athina Rachel Tsangari
Greece, Germany, 2015, 105 min
Join us on 5/6 as our Athina Rachel Tsangari retrospective moves to the Los Feliz 3 (@am_cinematheque) for an evening pairing of the Greek director's most beloved and influential features.
ATTENBERG - Q&A w/ Carson Lund (EEPHUS);
CHEVALIER - Q&A w/ Christopher Blauvelt (DP for THE MASTERMIND; MAY DECEMBER)
Bio link for tickets. 🎟️
About ATTENBERG:
In its irreverent use of (new) Nouvelle Vague, musical, melodrama, and nature documentary, ATTENBERG symbolically visualizes a change in generation and perspective as a father and daughter gently negotiate their individual rites of passage. The film follows a visionary architect who has come home to die in the vanishing industrial town that is his legacy to his daughter. Meanwhile, his daughter (played by Ariane Labed) is exploring the mysteries of kissing with her girlfriend, and the beyond with a visiting engineer. Tsangari’s film—with a soundtrack featuring Françoise Hardy and Suicide—is poised between sincerity and hilarity, tradition and experimentation.
About CHEVALIER:
Six men set out on the Aegean Sea aboard a yacht, and before long, male bonding and one-upmanship give way to a loosely defined yet hotly contested competition to determine which of them is “the best in general.” As the games and trials grow more elaborate and absurd—everything is up for judgment, from sleeping positions to cholesterol levels to furniture-assembly skills—insecurities emerge and power relations shift. As in her breakthrough ATTENBERG, Tsangari balances anthropological precision with a wry and wholly original sense of humor. Impeccably staged, crisply photographed, and buoyed by eclectic soundtrack choices (Petula Clark, Mark Lanegan), this maritime psychodrama becomes both funnier and richer in its implications as it progresses. What begins as a lampoon of bourgeois machismo and male anxiety develops into an incisive allegory for the state of contemporary Greece, and leaves a final impression as an empathetic, razor-sharp study of human nature itself.

Last night Wayne Wang presented Chan is Missing at the Roxie for two sold out performances in San Francisco. He spoke with Roxie founder, Peter Moore who originally programmed the film in 1981.
@roxie_theater

Last night Wayne Wang presented Chan is Missing at the Roxie for two sold out performances in San Francisco. He spoke with Roxie founder, Peter Moore who originally programmed the film in 1981.
@roxie_theater

"I think objectivity is not possible, nor do I find it useful."
Lucrecia Martel talks with @brandon_streussnig about crafting her first documentary with Our Land (Nuestra Tierra), starting anew with every film, and why it's impossible to lie.
Read the conversation at the link in bio as the film opens at @filmforumnyc.

Departures is a New York Times Critic's Pick!
Opens in New York tonight, Wednesday, April 29th, 2026 at IFC Center
@nytimes @ifccenter
Thank you for the lovely review @azzo

We had the honor of celebrating Lucrecia Martel at Posteritati on Friday, love and thanks to Lucrecia, Strand Releasing, and all who attended for a lovely and memorable evening. More photos at link in bio.
📸 Nico Márquez (@volcanico_9)

We had the honor of celebrating Lucrecia Martel at Posteritati on Friday, love and thanks to Lucrecia, Strand Releasing, and all who attended for a lovely and memorable evening. More photos at link in bio.
📸 Nico Márquez (@volcanico_9)

We had the honor of celebrating Lucrecia Martel at Posteritati on Friday, love and thanks to Lucrecia, Strand Releasing, and all who attended for a lovely and memorable evening. More photos at link in bio.
📸 Nico Márquez (@volcanico_9)

We had the honor of celebrating Lucrecia Martel at Posteritati on Friday, love and thanks to Lucrecia, Strand Releasing, and all who attended for a lovely and memorable evening. More photos at link in bio.
📸 Nico Márquez (@volcanico_9)

We had the honor of celebrating Lucrecia Martel at Posteritati on Friday, love and thanks to Lucrecia, Strand Releasing, and all who attended for a lovely and memorable evening. More photos at link in bio.
📸 Nico Márquez (@volcanico_9)

We had the honor of celebrating Lucrecia Martel at Posteritati on Friday, love and thanks to Lucrecia, Strand Releasing, and all who attended for a lovely and memorable evening. More photos at link in bio.
📸 Nico Márquez (@volcanico_9)

We had the honor of celebrating Lucrecia Martel at Posteritati on Friday, love and thanks to Lucrecia, Strand Releasing, and all who attended for a lovely and memorable evening. More photos at link in bio.
📸 Nico Márquez (@volcanico_9)

We had the honor of celebrating Lucrecia Martel at Posteritati on Friday, love and thanks to Lucrecia, Strand Releasing, and all who attended for a lovely and memorable evening. More photos at link in bio.
📸 Nico Márquez (@volcanico_9)

We had the honor of celebrating Lucrecia Martel at Posteritati on Friday, love and thanks to Lucrecia, Strand Releasing, and all who attended for a lovely and memorable evening. More photos at link in bio.
📸 Nico Márquez (@volcanico_9)

We had the honor of celebrating Lucrecia Martel at Posteritati on Friday, love and thanks to Lucrecia, Strand Releasing, and all who attended for a lovely and memorable evening. More photos at link in bio.
📸 Nico Márquez (@volcanico_9)
✍️ Lucrecia Martel signed posters for The Headless Woman (2008) and her new doc Our Land (Nuestra Tierra) available now c/o @strandreleasing — link in bio.
A new restoration of Martel’s extraordinary 2008 film The Headless Woman is coming to @metrograph in May, and her new doc Our Land (Nuestra Tierra) starts next Friday at @filmforumnyc.
The Headless Woman poster design by Juan Gatti and Our Land (Nuestra Tierra) poster design by Alejandro Ros.
✍️ Lucrecia Martel signed posters for The Headless Woman (2008) and her new doc Our Land (Nuestra Tierra) available now c/o @strandreleasing — link in bio.
A new restoration of Martel’s extraordinary 2008 film The Headless Woman is coming to @metrograph in May, and her new doc Our Land (Nuestra Tierra) starts next Friday at @filmforumnyc.
The Headless Woman poster design by Juan Gatti and Our Land (Nuestra Tierra) poster design by Alejandro Ros.
✍️ Lucrecia Martel signed posters for The Headless Woman (2008) and her new doc Our Land (Nuestra Tierra) available now c/o @strandreleasing — link in bio.
A new restoration of Martel’s extraordinary 2008 film The Headless Woman is coming to @metrograph in May, and her new doc Our Land (Nuestra Tierra) starts next Friday at @filmforumnyc.
The Headless Woman poster design by Juan Gatti and Our Land (Nuestra Tierra) poster design by Alejandro Ros.

✍️ Lucrecia Martel signed posters for The Headless Woman (2008) and her new doc Our Land (Nuestra Tierra) available now c/o @strandreleasing — link in bio.
A new restoration of Martel’s extraordinary 2008 film The Headless Woman is coming to @metrograph in May, and her new doc Our Land (Nuestra Tierra) starts next Friday at @filmforumnyc.
The Headless Woman poster design by Juan Gatti and Our Land (Nuestra Tierra) poster design by Alejandro Ros.

✍️ Lucrecia Martel signed posters for The Headless Woman (2008) and her new doc Our Land (Nuestra Tierra) available now c/o @strandreleasing — link in bio.
A new restoration of Martel’s extraordinary 2008 film The Headless Woman is coming to @metrograph in May, and her new doc Our Land (Nuestra Tierra) starts next Friday at @filmforumnyc.
The Headless Woman poster design by Juan Gatti and Our Land (Nuestra Tierra) poster design by Alejandro Ros.

✍️ Lucrecia Martel signed posters for The Headless Woman (2008) and her new doc Our Land (Nuestra Tierra) available now c/o @strandreleasing — link in bio.
A new restoration of Martel’s extraordinary 2008 film The Headless Woman is coming to @metrograph in May, and her new doc Our Land (Nuestra Tierra) starts next Friday at @filmforumnyc.
The Headless Woman poster design by Juan Gatti and Our Land (Nuestra Tierra) poster design by Alejandro Ros.

The Oslo Trilogy 3-Film Collection bundle is now available for purchase on Amazon Prime Video and Apple TV

The Oslo Trilogy 3-Film Collection bundle is now available for purchase on Amazon Prime Video and Apple TV
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