What’s New on Kino Film Collection in March 2026
Steve Buscemi in Handsome Harry
Streaming on March 5
Köln 75
Ido Fluk, Germany, Poland, Belgium, 2025
Keith Jarrett’s legendary performance in January 1975 nearly didn’t happen. Conceived and orchestrated by the efforts of a teenage concert promoter, Vera Brandes, she convinced Jarrett to perform when the Bösendorfer Imperial Grand piano he was promised was nowhere to be found. "Köln 75" joyfully captures this unknown backstory that gave us the best-selling solo album in jazz history.
There's No Tomorrow
Max Ophüls, France, 1939
From the masterful Max Ophüls comes this bittersweet melodrama, glittering with a dash of film noir. Edwige Feuillère commands the screen as a once-bourgeois woman reduced to dancing in a disreputable nightclub to support her young son. When her lost love, now a successful doctor, reappears, she puts on the charade that her life has been far more fortunate. But maintaining the illusion won’t be easy.
Streaming on March 10
Churchill and the Movie Mogul
John Fleet, UK, 2019
Winston Churchill was mad about movies, but the full extent of his use of film as a wartime weapon has never been told. Before WWII, producer Alexander Korda enlisted Churchill as a writer and advisor. When war came, Churchill sent Korda to Hollywood on a covert mission to sway America. Using newly uncovered documents, this film reveals their extraordinary alliance.
Chichinette: The Accidental Spy
Nicola Alice Hens, Germany, France, 2020
The extraordinary story of Marthe Cohn, who joined the French Resistance as a feisty young woman during WWII. After her family fled south and her sister was sent to Auschwitz, Marthe posed as a nurse, using her German accent and blond hair to slip behind enemy lines and gather vital intelligence. Silent for 60 years, she later lectured worldwide with joie de vivre and hope until her death at 105.
Streaming on March 19
Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt
Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman, US, 1989
Started in a San Francisco storefront by the NAMES Project, the AIDS Memorial Quilt grew to 8,288 handmade panels by 1988, each honoring a life lost. Filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman witnessed the quilt’s early days and captured the personal stories woven into this monument, a powerful record of grief, resilience, and activism that won the 1989 Academy Award for Best Documentary.
Il Dono
Michelangelo Frammartino, Italy, 2003
A gentle, beguiling hymn to a semi-deserted Calabrian countryside and those who stayed behind, “Il Dono” is a portrait of depopulation in the village of Caulonia, the filmmaker’s ancestral town. Gorgeously shot with long painterly takes and with next to no dialogue, it pieces together the fragments of a place guided by slow rhythms, traditions, charm aplenty, and the relentless ravages of time.
Streaming on March 26
Handsome Harry
Bette Gordon, US, 2009
Vietnam vet “Handsome” Harry Sweeney (Jamey Sheridan) has spent 30 years suppressing a love ended by betrayal. A call from an old Navy buddy (Steve Buscemi) pushes him to confront the past, investigate a 30-year-old crime, and seek out five men from his Navy past, each encounter revealing and obscuring the truth he must face. Directed by Bette Gordon (“Variety”).
Who Is Dayani Cristal?
Marc Silver, US, Mexico, 2013
The body of an unidentified immigrant is found in the Arizona desert. In an attempt to retrace his path and discover his story, director Marc Silver and actor and activist Gael García Bernal embed themselves among migrant travelers on their own mission to cross the border in this Sundance-winning film, offering rare insight into the human stories so often ignored in the immigration debate.