Juno Films acquires exclusive US and Canadian rights to Danish director Mads Mengel’s debut feature The Guest starring Danish leading lady Trine Dyrholm following its prize-winning world premiere in competition at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, as announced in DEADLINE.
She made the landmark underground film “Christmas on Earth,” and helped bring together artists like Andy Warhol, Allen Ginsberg and Bob Dylan.
For a few years in the 1960s, a teenage filmmaker from Queens named Barbara Rubin helped jolt Manhattan’s underground art scene by pulling poets, painters, rock bands and experimental filmmakers into the same rooms.
She had just turned 18 when she joined the filmmaker and critic Jonas Mekas in championing experimental movies. She also made one of her own, “Christmas on Earth,” a roughly 30-minute, black-and-white, 16-millimeter collage of naked bodies and overlapping images that became a touchstone of the New York avant-garde.
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IndieWire has selected CIELO as one of the "Best Movies of 2026"! That puts the film in good company, from mainstream releases to the more obscure, it is so nice for a film to earn recognition on its merits.
The idyllic opening images of Alberto Sciamma’s “Cielo” would never lead you to suspect the morbidity that comes mere seconds later. The shots of a tranquil alpine lake with crystal-clear water and an adorable girl (Fernanda Gutiérrez Aranda) playing on the shore appear designed to set up something ripped straight from a fairytale. And in a way, they are… but said fairytale starts with said girl swallowing a live goldfish before beating her father to death with a large rock. So begins a surprisingly lovely work of magical realism.
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And thank you Christian Zilko for your kind words.
EXCLUSIVE: Juno Films has acquired US distribution rights to CPH:DOX premiere Two Strangers Trying Not To Kill Each Other, feature debut of directors Manon Ouimet and Jacob Perlmutter.
The documentary will get a limited US theatrical release starting on April 3.
Two Strangers tells the story of artist couple Joel Meyerowitz and Maggie Barrett, who are still in love after 30 years but whose relationship is not without complications.
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EXCLUSIVE: Juno Films has acquired all US rights to Anissa Bonnefont’s documentary La Scala: The Force Of Destiny from Paris-based Ginger & Fed.
The feature charts the run-up to the opening night of La Forza Del Destino, Giuseppe Verdi’s opera that kicked off La Scala’s 2024 season in Milan, Italy, and was broadcast live on Rai 1 as opera enthusiasts from around the world flock to Milan.
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EXCLUSIVE: Juno Films has acquired all North American rights to Sophie Fiennes’ documentary and Edinburgh International Film Festival premiere Acting.
The feature offers an inside look at the acting process as Cheek by Jowl theatre company artistic directors Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod rehearse scenes from Shakespeare’s Macbeth with eight actors in a derelict mansion on the outskirts of London.
‘Cielo’ Review: A Self-Orphaned Girl Takes a Pilgrimage in Gorgeous Bolivian Fable
"Alberto Sciamma’s enchanting magical realist tale traverses from the lows of human cruelty to heights of Bolivian mountains, with no lack of surreal or humorous sights en route. "
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EXCLUSIVE: Juno Films has acquired all North American rights to Alberto Sciamma’s Spanish-language magical realist fable Cielo, which won awards at Fantasia Fest and Fantasporto.
Fernanda Gutierrez Aranda stars as Santa, a young orphan from the Bolivian Altiplano, who flees her abusive home with her mother’s body in a barrel of salt in a quest to find the road to Heaven and bring her mother back to life.
EXCLUSIVE: Juno Films has acquired all North American rights to Galway Film Fleadh award winner Horseshoe directed by Edwin Mullane and Adam O’Keeffe.
The distributor plans a spring 2026 theatrical release on the comedic family drama about four estranged siblings who return to their crumbling family home in the West of Ireland and navigate inheritance, grief and long-buried grudges and secrets.
Horseshoe won the Best Irish First Feature award at Galway Film Fleadh and stars Carolyn Bracken, Lalor Roddy, John Connors, Mary Murray, Jed Murray, Neill Fleming, Eric O’Brien and Caroline Harvey
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