Film Movement has taken US distribution rights to H2: The Occupation Lab, a documentary by Israeli filmmakers Idit Avrahami and Noam Sheizaf.
Acquiring the film from UK-based sales firm MetFilm Sales, Film Movement is planning a theatrical release on the title for an as-yet unscheduled date.
MetFilm Sales has also secured deals for Sweden (SVT), Switzerland (RTS), Finland (YLE) and Turkey (TRT).
H2: The Occupation Lab debuted at Docaviv documentary festival in Tel Aviv, Israel in May last year. It documents the impact that Jewish settlers and military occupation have had on the Palestinian city of Hebron, and how the repressive methods of control born there were later adopted in other areas of the occupied territories.
The film was produced by Hilla Medalia and Paul Cadieux for US firm Medalia Productions and Canada’s Film Option International, supported by Israel’s HOT8 and France Televisions.
Jenny Bonhoff, MetFilm Sales executive said the film “could not be more urgent and univocally relevant for democracies worldwide”; while Film Movement’s Michael Rosenberg added, “Avrahami and Sheizaf have crafted a clear-eyed case-study of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, stretching back over half a century from the Six-Day War to the present day.”
MetFilm Sales’ slate includes Thomas von Steinaecker’s Werner Herzog – Radical Dreamer, Jason Motlagh’s SXSW entry Riders on the Storm, and Fergus Grady and Noel Smyth’s Gloriavale.
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