EXCLUSIVE: Toronto-based distribution company New Mountain Films has acquired North American theatrical and streaming rights for Marjolein Busstra’s award-winning documentary House of Hope about a pacifist Waldorf school in the occupied West Bank.
The agreement was negotiated by Khaled Sabbour, founder and CEO of New Mountain Films, and Esther van Messel and Shiran Shmerling at Zurich-based international sales company First Hand Films.
Working with a Palestinian crew, including Dutch-Palestinian cinematographer Abu Mosab, Amsterdam-based filmmaker Busstra followed Manar and Milad, a couple who run a pacifist Waldorf elementary school in al-Eizariya, a Palestinian town on the outskirts of Jerusalem under
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