Zeitgeist Films is an American
independent film distributor based in
New York City founded in 1988 by co-Presidents Nancy Gerstman and Emily Russo. Films distributed by Zeitgeist are strongly auteur-driven by directors such as
Christopher Nolan,
Guy Maddin,
Atom Egoyan,
Todd Haynes,
Nuri Bilge Ceylan,
Olivier Assayas,
Abbas Kiarostami,
Deepa Mehta,
Jan Švankmajer and the
Brothers Quay. The expansive Zeitgeist film library includes
Trouble the Water,
The Corporation,
Jellyfish,
Examined Life,
Into Great Silence,
Ten and
Irma Vep. In June 2008, the
MoMA honored two decades of Zeitgeist successes with a month-long, twenty film retrospective entitled
Zeitgeist: The Films of Our Time, exhibiting the distributor's twenty most critically acclaimed, intellectually stimulating titles.