Kino Lorber has unveiled some of the details of their September 2025 Blu-Ray and DVD releases from their Kino Lorber, Cohen Media Group, Greenwich Entertainment, MHz Choice, and Raro Video imprints. Get all the details on this incredibly packed lineup below:
Street Date: 9/2/25 (DVD Only)
Synopsis: Winner of the Truer Than Fiction Award at the 2025 Film Independent Spirit Awards and a New York Times Critic’s Pick, A Photographic Memory is an intimate, genre-bending portrait of the filmmaker’s trailblazing mother, Sheila Turner Seed – a vibrant and pioneering journalist, photographer, and filmmaker, who died suddenly and tragically when Rachel was just 18 months old. Uncovering the vast archive Turner Seed produced, including lost interviews with iconic photographers Henri Cartier-Bresson, Bruce Davidson, Cecil Beaton, Lisette Model, and Gordon Parks, and others, Rachel attempts to build a posthumous relationship with her mother through her interviews, photographs, journals, films, and the stories of those who remember her. The result is an unlikely mother-daughter conversation that evades time and space, exploring universal themes of memory, loss, and legacy.
Bonus Features: Theatrical Trailer
Street Date: 9/23/25
Synopsis: Il Dono (The Gift) is director Michelangelo Frammartino’s gorgeous debut feature, a lyrical ode to his hometown of Caulonia (also the subject of his masterful Le Quattro Volte). It is a portrait of depopulation, as Caulonia saw a dramatic decrease in inhabitants from roughly 15,000 in the 1950s to just a few hundred people at the time of the film’s making. In painterly, dialogue-free long takes Frammartino pieces together the fragments of a place guided by slow rhythms, capturing the traditions, rituals, charms, and ruins of this beautiful village that has endured the relentless ravages of time. 4K restoration courtesy of Coproduction Office, Cineteca di Bologna at L’Immagine Ritrovata, and Augustus Color Laboratories, from the original camera and sound negatives, under the supervision of Michelangelo Frammartino.
Bonus Features: Theatrical Trailer
Street Date: 9/30/25
Synopsis: Graceful, enigmatic, and often frightening, Dogtooth is an ingenious dark comedy that won the Un Certain Regard Prize at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival and an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film, propelling Oscar winner Yorgos Lanthimos (Poor Things, The Favourite) to the forefront of contemporary cinema’s most ambitious young filmmakers. In an effort to protect their three children from the corrupting influence of the outside world, a Greek couple transforms their home into a gated compound of cultural deprivation and strict rules of behavior. But children cannot remain innocent forever. When the father brings home a young woman to satisfy his son’s sexual urges, the family’s engineered “reality” begins to crumble, with devastating consequences. Dogtooth punctuates its compelling drama with moments of shocking violence, creating a biting social satire that is as profound as it is provocative.
Restored in 4K from the 35mm camera and sound negatives by Boo Productions and mk2 Films at Asterisk* Post and I Hear Voices sound studio. Color grading by Gregory Arvanitis and Thimios Bakatakis. Digital sound restoration by Leandros Ntounis. The restoration process was supervised by the director, Yorgos Lanthimos.
Bonus Features: 4K (DISC 1): Audio Commentary with Stars Angeliki Papoulia and Christos Passalis | Audio Commentary by Film Critic Adam Nayman | BLU-RAY (DISC 2): Yorgos Lanthimos in conversation with Kent Jones (2019, courtesy of Film at Lincoln Center) | Interview with Yorgos Lanthimos (2009) | Deleted scenes | Trailers
Street Date: 9/30/25 (DVD Only)
Synopsis: The Lake Trilogy, known as “Jezero” in its original Slovenian, is a crime drama series based on the novels of Tadej Golob. It is in many ways Slovenia’s Alpine answer to the Nordic Noir craze: a cinematic police procedural in a scenic, winter landscape with a dark and troubled protagonist. The series follows detective Taras Birsa as he investigates murders and explores themes of small-town life and the clash between provincial and urban worlds. With beautiful cinematography and stunning landscapes, The Lake Trilogy is a gripping slow-burn procedural with plenty of twists and a compelling protagonist.
Bonus Features: Promo Reel
Street Date: 9/30/25
Synopsis: The .44 Specialist (aka Mark Strikes Again) is a high-octane cop thriller from director Stelvio Massi (Magnum Cop). Inspector Mark Patti (Franco Gasparri) is assigned to infiltrate a group of radicals, working in concert with shady US agent Altman (John Saxon, Enter the Dragon, A Nightmare on Elm Street). Mark is brought into the terrorist circle of Paul (John Steiner, Tenebrae) and Olga (Marcella Michelangeli, The Big Racket), and chaos erupts. The undercover cop discovers uncomfortable truths as he gets embroiled in their acts of political violence.
Bonus Features: Audio Commentary by Film Historian Rachael Nisbet | Alternate English Feature Audio Track | Trailer
Street Date: 9/23/25
Synopsis: Co-directed by BAFTA-nominated Sally El Hosaini (The Swimmers) and BIFA-winning filmmaker/actor James Krishna Floyd, Unicorns tells the story of a cross-cultural romance about a single father from Essex, England, who works as an auto mechanic and a British Indian drag queen living a double life. The film stars Ben Hardy (Bohemian Rhapsody) as Luke, who is forced to rethink his sexual identity when he unexpectedly falls in love with Aysha, played by Jason Patel in his feature film debut. Unicorns was featured at the Toronto International Film Festival, The BFI London Film Festival, the Palm Springs Film Festival and won Best of Fest at the BFI Flare London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival. With cinematography by David Raedeker (The Souvenir) and brought to life by the acclaimed producing teams behind The Kids Are All Right and Brokeback Mountain, Unicorns is an unforgettable romance.
Bonus Features: Trailers
Street Date: 9/9/25 (DVD Only)
Synopsis: Trans man Leo’s (Bobbi Salvör Menuez) life is a jumble of auditions, acting classes, barista jobs, and situationships, all of which he hopes will amount to more. Unexpectedly, Leo’s college best friend, cisgender and straight Eleanor (Marianne Rendón), calls Leo announcing that she’ll be driving through NYC, and offers to pick him up for an impromptu trip upstate. They embark on the weekend getaway, marking their first time spent together since Leo began transitioning. Reunited with new gender dynamics between them, and uncovering problems lurking behind Eleanor’s “well-meaning” façade, Leo and Eleanor navigate how their old feelings towards one another exist within this new context, forcing them both to confront buried secrets and emotions. A modern twist on the buddy comedy from a queer and trans perspective, Noah Schamus’ debut feature Summer Solstice is a celebration of friendship, resilience, and coming of age again.
Bonus Features: Trailers
Street Date: 9/16/25 (DVD Only)
Synopsis: A Jewish child survives the Holocaust by posing as “Hitler’s youngest soldier.” After 50 years, his shocking secret is revealed, and he embarks on a quest to find his long-lost Jewish family. Through interviews with relatives, historians, and skeptics, the film explores one man’s search for the truth, and the extraordinary impact of his story on both his adopted and biological families.
Bonus Features: Trailers
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