Guatemala’s first Oscar submission from Jayro Bustamente premiered in Berlin where it won the Silver Bear Alfred Bauer Prize and screens in Toronto on Wednesday.
Kino Lorber negotiated the deal with Film Factory Entertainment and will mount a theatrical release in 2016 before VOD and home media release that autumn.
Ixcanul centres on two Mayan lovers who flee their home on a coffee plantation on the foothills of an active volcano and head to the United States.
La Casa de Producción and Tu Vas Voir produced.
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