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Thunderbird Releasing is a London-based all-rights film distribution company, with a division in Canada, specialising in arthouse, independent and world cinema. Established as Soda Pictures in 2002 by Eve Gabereau and Edward Fletcher, the company releases 25+ films a year and has a library of over 300 titles.
They have released such groundbreaking films as Fatih Akin’s Head-On , Tran Ahn Hung’s Norwegian Wood , Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive , Kelly Reichardt’s Old Joy , Meek’s Cutoff and Night Moves , Christian Petzold’s Barbara and Phoenix both starring Nina Hoss , from Saudi Arabia Wadjda , Brazilian award-winner The Second Mother , Icelandic breakout hit Rams , French thriller Disorder starring Matthias Schoenaerts and Diane Kruger and the Oscar-nominated documentary Finding Vivian Maier , as well as on the Canadian side Lone Scherfig ’s The Riot Club , Ben Wheatley ’s High-Rise and the Western Slow West starring Michael Fassbender . Upcoming they have the critically acclaimed Cannes competitors Paterson and Toni Erdmann , Emily Dickinson biopic A Quiet Passion starring Cynthia Nixon and directed by Terence Davies , and the documentary David Lynch: The Art Life.
Thunderbird Releasing is part of the Thunderbird Entertainment Group, a film and television production company based in Vancouver with additional offices in Toronto and Los Angeles and who are behind the Netflix Original series Beat Bugs and Executive Producers of the upcoming Blade Runner 2049 starring Ryan Gosling .
Theatrical Releases
2019
Title
Director(s)
Cast
Theatrical Release Date
Vita and Virginia (2018)
Chanya Button
Gemma Arterton , Elizabeth Debicki , Isabella Rossellini
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High Life (2018)
Claire Denis
Robert Pattinson , Mia Goth , Juliette Binoche , André Benjamin
tbc
Sorry Angel (2018)
Christophe Honoré
Vincent Lacoste , Pierre Deladonchamps , Denis Podalydès
March 22
The Kindergarten Teacher (2018)
Sara Colangelo
Maggie Gyllenhaal , Gael García Bernal
Feb 8
Burning (2018)
Lee Chang-dong
Yoo Ah-in , Steven Yuen , Jun Jong-seo
Feb 1
2018
Title
Director(s)
Cast
Theatrical Release Date
Shoplifters
Hirokazu Kore-eda
Sakura Ando , Lily Franky
November 23
The Gospel According to André (2017)
Kate Novack
André Leon Talley
September 28
The Seagull
Michael Mayer
Annette Bening , Saoirse Ronan , Elisabeth Moss
September 7
The Heiresses
Marcelo Martinessi
Ana Brun
August 10
Racer and the Jailbird (2017)
Michaël R. Roskam
Matthias Schoenaerts , Adèle Exarchopoulos
July 13
Redoubtable (2017)
Michel Hazanavicius
Louis Garrel , Stacy Martin , Bérénice Bejo
May 11
Never Steady, Never Still (2017)
Kathleen Hepburn
Shirley Henderson , Théodore Pellerin, Nicholas Campbell
April 20
Sweet Country (2017)
Warwick Thorton
Hamilton Morris, Sam Neill , Bryan Brown , Thomas M. Wright
March 9
Walk With Me (2017)
Max Pugh , Marc James Francis
Thich Nhat Hanh , Benedict Cumberbatch (narrated by)
Jan 5
2017
Title
Director(s)
Cast
Theatrical Release Date
The Man Who Invented Christmas
Bharat Nalluri
Dan Stevens , Christopher Plummer , Jonathan Pryce
1 December
Thelma
Joachim Trier
Eili Harboe
3 November
Brimstone (2016)
Martin Koolhoven
Dakota Fanning , Guy Pearce , Kit Harington
29 September
Una (2016)
Benedict Andrews
Rooney Mara , Ben Mendelsohn , Riz Ahmed
1 September
Dark Night (2016)
Tim Sutton
18 August
Land of Mine (2015)
Martin Zandvliet
4 August
David Lynch: The Art Life (2016)
John Nguyen
David Lynch
14 July
Tommy's Honour (2016)
Jason Connery
Jack Lowden , Ophelia Lovibond , Sam Neill , Peter Mullan
7 July
A Man Called Ove (2016)
Hannes Holm
30 June
My Life As A Courgette (2016)
Claude Barras
2 June
I Am Not Madame Bovary (2016)
Feng Xiaogang
Fan Bingbing
26 May
The Transfiguration (2016)
Michael O'Shea
21 April
A Quiet Passion (2016)
Terence Davies
Cynthia Nixon , Jennifer Ehle , Keith Carradine
7 April
The Age of Shadows (2016)
Kim Jee-woon
Song Kang-ho , Gong Yoo , Han Ji-min , Shin Sung-rok , Shingo Tsurumi
24 March
Sweet Dreams (2016)
Marco Bellocchio
Bérénice Bejo , Valerio Mastandrea
24 February
Toni Erdmann (2016)
Maren Ade
Peter Simonischek , Sandra Hüller , Lucy Russell
3 February
2016
Title
Directors
Cast
Theatrical Release Date
Paterson
Jim Jarmusch
Adam Driver , Golshifteh Farahani
25 November
Phantom Boy (2015)
Jean-Loup Felliciolli, Alain Gagnol
21 October
Southside With You
Richard Tanne
Parker Sawyers , Tika Sumpter
30 September
The Lovers and the Despot
Ross Adam, Robert Cannan
23 September
The 9th Life of Louis Drax
Alexander Aja
Jamie Dornan , Sarah Gadon , Aaron Paul
2 September
The Childhood of A Leader (2015)
Brady Corbet
Bérénice Bejo , Liam Cunningham , Stacy Martin , Yolande Moreau , Robert Pattinson , Tom Sweet
19 August
Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words (2015)
Stig Björkman
Ingrid Bergman
12 August
Up For Love
Laurent Tirard
Jean Dujardin , Virginie Efira
5 August
Remainder (2015)
Omer Fast
Tom Sturridge , Cush Jumbo , Ed Speleers , Arsher Ali
24 June
Long Way North (2015)
Rémi Chayé
17 June
Louder Than Bombs (2015)
Joachim Trier
Isabelle Huppert , Gabriel Byrne , Jesse Eisenberg , Amy Ryan , David Strathairn , Devin Druid
22 April
Disorder (2015)
Alice Winocour
Matthias Schoenaerts , Diane Kruger
25 March
The Here After (2015)
Magnus von Horn
Ulrik Munther
11 March
Rams (2015)
Grímur Hakonarson
5 February
Innocence of Memories (2015)
Grant Gee
29 January
Breakdown
Jonnie Malachi
Craig Fairbrass
15 January
2015
Title
Directors
Cast
Theatrical Release Date
The Forbidden Room
Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson
11 December
Tell Spring Not To Come This Year
Saeed Taji Farouky, Michael McEvoy
Zarafa (2012)
Jean-Christophe Lie, Remi Bezancon
By Our Selves
Andrew Kötting
Toby Jones
Just Jim
Craig Roberts
Craig Roberts , Emile Hirsch
The Second Mother
Anna Muylaert
Regina Casé
4 September
National Gallery (2014)
Frederic Wiseman
9 January
The Turning (2013)
Ensemble
Cate Blanchett , Rose Byrne , Hugo Weaving , Miranda Otto
6 February
Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter (2014)
David Zellner
Rinko Kikuchi
20 February
Difret (2014)
Zeresenay Mehari
Meron Getnet, Tizita Hagere
6 March
The Face of an Angel (2014)
Michael Winterbottom
Daniel Brühl , Kate Beckinsale , Cara Delevingne
27 March
Altman
Ron Mann
3 April
Jauja (2014)
Lisandro Alonso
Viggo Mortensen
10 April
Phoenix (2014)
Christian Petzold
Nina Hoss , Ronald Zehrfeld
8 May
The Goob (2014)
Guy Myhill
Liam Walpole. Sienna Guillory , Sean Harris
29 May
Shooting for Socrates (2014)
James Erskine
5 June
Natural Resistance (2014)
Jonathan Nossiter
19 June
That Sugar Film (2014)
Damon Gameau
Damon Gameau , Stephen Fry , Hugh Jackman
26 June
Still the Water (2014)
Naomi Kawase
Nijirô Murakami, Jun Yoshinaga
3 July
The Reunion (2013)
Anna Odell
10 July
The Wonders (2014)
Alice Rohrwacher
Alba Rohrwacher , Monica Bellucci , Sam Louwyck
17 July
Gemma Bovery (2014)
Anne Fontaine
Gemma Arterton , Fabrice Luchini , Jason Flemyng
21 August
2014
Title
Directors
Cast
Theatrical Release Date
Teenage (2013)
Matt Wolf
24 January
Journal de France (2012)
Raymond Depardon , Claudine Nougaret
31 January
The Patrol (2013)
Tom Petch
7 February
Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)
Jim Jarmusch
Tilda Swinton , Tom Hiddleston , Mia Wasikowska , Anton Yelchin , John Hurt
21 February
Half of a Yellow Sun (2013)
Biyi Bandele
Chiwetel Ejiofor , Thandie Newton , John Boyega
11 April
Looking for Light: Jane Bown
Luke Dodd, Michael Whyte
25 April
Ilo Ilo (2013)
Anthony Chen
Yann Yann Yeo , Tian Wen Chen
2 May
American Interior
Gruff Rhys
Gruff Rhys
9 May
Pantani: The Accidental Death Of A Cyclist
James Erskine
16 May
Omar (2013)
Hany Abu-Assad
Adam Bakri , Leem Lubany
30 May
For No Good Reason (2012)
Charlie Paul
Ralph Steadman , Johnny Depp
30 May
PULP: A Film about Life, Death & Supermarkets
Florian Habicht
PULP
6 June
Camille Claudel 1915 (2013)
Bruno Dumont
Juliette Binoche
20 June
Finding Vivian Maier (2013)
John Maloof, Charlie Siskel
18 July
The Police Officer's Wife (2013)
Philip Gröning
Alexandra Finder, David Zimmerschied
22 August
Night Moves (2013)
Kelly Reichardt
Jesse Eisenberg , Mia Wasikowska , Peter Sarsgaard
29 August
Watermark (2013)
Jennifer Baichwal , Edward Burtynsky
5 September
A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness (2013)
Ben Rivers , Ben Russell
12 September
Down by Law (R/I) (1986)
Jim Jarmusch
Tom Waits , John Lurie , Roberto Benigni
12 September
Violette (2013)
Martin Provost
Emmanuelle Devos , Sandrine Kiberlain , Olivier Gourmet
3 October
My Name is Hmmm... (2013)
Agnès b.
Douglas Gordon
17 October
Sacro GRA (2013)
Gianfranco Rosi
7 November
Electricity
Bryn Higgins
Agyness Deyn , Christian Cooke , Paul Anderson
5 December
Kon-Tiki (2012)
Joachim Rønning , Espen Sandberg
Pål Sverre Hagen , Anders Baasmo Christiansen , Joachim Rønning
19 December
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