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BenaroyaPictures

Since 2006

Films

Coming Soon
Coming Soon · November 2026

Kristallnacht

Directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky · Clive Owen · Mélanie Laurent · Alex Pettyfer
Filmmakers
Directors We've Worked With
Werner HerzogJ.C. ChandorJohn HillcoatJohn KrokidasMichael AlmereydaLiza JohnsonStefan Ruzowitzky

Official Selections

Premiered Worldwide
Also at Shanghai · Zürich · Fantastic Fest · BFI London
Backing the stories worth telling.
Michael Benaroya
Michael BenaroyaPortrait
Founder & CEO

Michael Benaroya

Michael Benaroya founded Benaroya Pictures in 2006. In the years since, he has developed, financed, and produced feature films across every genre, among them the Academy Award-nominated Margin Call, Lawless, The Words, Kill Your Darlings, and Werner Herzog's Queen of the Desert.

In 2013 he founded International Film Trust, the company's international sales arm, carrying its films and select titles from other producers to audiences worldwide. He continues to build an ambitious, filmmaker-driven slate.

Films, sold to the world.

Benaroya Publishing

A publishing imprint developing original stories toward the screen — among them the bestselling Samurai's Blood, Blood Merchant, and Nitron, co-created with the late Stan Lee.

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