Wex joins Kino Lorber for virtual screening room

When Kino Lorber approached us about partnering on their virtual screening room initiative—a clever and exciting way to share current theatrical releases amid the spate of cinema closures during the coronavirus pandemic—we couldn’t pass up the chance. We’ve worked with the creative and hardworking team at Kino for decades and to join them on this was a no-brainer.

We’re especially pleased that it’s for the extraordinary Brazilian film Bacurau from filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho. One of the world’s most vital filmmakers, Mendonça Filho is no stranger to the Wex having visited twice over the last decade to screen his films Neighboring Sounds and Aquarius. His work is politically charged and astute. It draws compellingly from the traditions of entertaining and rabble-rousing genre cinema, and the dystopian sci-fi western Bacurau is no exception.