Cinema Guild acquires Joshua Bonnetta's Berlinale standout The Two Sights

NEW YORK, NY- Cinema Guild announced today the acquisition of all North American distribution rights to Joshua Bonnetta's The Two Sights. The film premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival in February and will make its U.S. premiere as part of Film at Lincoln Center's Art of the Real next month. The Two Sights will open in theaters in 2021.

The first solo feature from Bonnetta (co-director, El Mar La Mar), The Two Sights (An Dà Shealladh) explores the disappearing tradition of second sight in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. As we listen to locals' accounts of haunting experiences—phantom horses, ghost voices and other supernatural phenomena—Bonnetta connects their testimonies with striking 16mm images and a carefully-curated sonic montage of the physical and aural environment of these enchanted islands. The Two Sights is an ethnographic marvel of non-fiction filmmaking that thrills the eyes and ears and invites us into the extra-sensory beyond.

"We're so excited to be working again with Joshua Bonnetta, who we feel is one of the brightest stars in non-fiction filmmaking today," said Cinema Guild President Peter Kelly, "The Two Sights is a completely bewitching film. You can't sit in front of it for more than a few minutes without being pulled under its spell."

The deal was negotiated by Peter Kelly of Cinema Guild with the film's producer.

Cinema Guild is a premier distributor of world cinema, independent films and documentaries, whose upcoming releases include Hong Sangsoo's The Woman Who Ran, Matías Piñeiro's Isabella and Kazik Radwanski's Anne at 13,000 ft. Recent theatrical releases include Angela Schanelec's I Was at Home, But..., Lucio Castro's End of the Century and RaMell Ross's Academy Award-nominated Hale County This Morning, This Evening.

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