Made a short? Holding a feature nobody would distribute? Get paid by the people who watch it.
Klein Cinema is a subscription cinema where members' money follows what they watch, and once a month, every member gives their award to a winner. No ads, no exclusivity traps, no black-box payouts.
Non-exclusive, always
Show your film wherever else you like, festivals, your own site, other platforms. Klein Cinema never locks it up.
You keep all rights
The film stays yours. If a distributor ever writes that email, it's still yours to say yes with.
Costs nothing to submit
No fees, no tiers, no 'premium consideration'. We watch everything that comes in.
Leave whenever you want
Take your film down at any time. No notice period, no penalty, no hard feelings.
Every watching member pays you
We split every membership 50/50 with the filmmakers whose films that member watched. Every view of your film earns, automatically, with no button for anyone to press.
Your film runs for thirty days, and earns for those thirty
From the day it opens, the whole pool is split among what's showing, by what members actually watched. When the run ends your film stays on Klein Cinema — its page, its credits, the reviews members wrote, anything it won — it stops earning, and it is fully yours again. We would rather say that plainly than promise you money that never arrives.
We won't pretend it's a salary, and we won't quote you fantasy numbers either. Earnings depend on how many members we have, and we're growing. When you submit, we'll tell you exactly what films are currently earning.
Official Selection
Every curated film wears the mark, permanently, on Klein Cinema and anywhere you care to put it. Its page here keeps it long after the run has ended.
Closing night
Every month ends with a ceremony, and your film is a candidate in every month it was showing. The count is public, in members, never money.
The Community Prize
Crowned by the entire membership, not a committee. Decided entirely by member ballots, and it carries a cash award when presented by a sponsor.
Our editors watch every submission, expect to hear back within three weeks. The programme is built by hand, one film at a time: shorts and filmmaker-held features, chosen for the programme, not the algorithm, with a new one opening every few days. If your film isn't right for now, it may be later.