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.

House of Hope world premiered at the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam in 2025, and then went on to screen at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival in Toronto this May. There, it won the Hot Docs Best International Feature Documentary award.

“House of Hope is exactly the kind of film that New Mountain was built to champion — a story with real stakes, told with craft, that deserves an audience beyond the festival circuit,” said Sabbour.

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