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Alternativa Distribution Unveils New Aquisitions

New additions to the slate include 2027 Academy Award entries and award winners from Cannes, Venice, Berlinale, and the Alternativa Film Festival.

8 October 2026

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8 October 2026

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Our recently launched distribution arm unveiled its latest wave of acquisitions ahead of MIPCOM 2026. The slate includes:

  • Elephants in the Fog (2026, dir. Abinash Bikram Shah)
    Winner of the Un Certain Regard Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival and Nepal’s official entry for the 99th Academy Awards
     
  • Four Daughters (2023, dir. Kaouther Ben Hania)
    Academy Award-nominated documentary and winner of the L’Œil d’or for Best Documentary at Cannes
     
  • No Good Men (2026, dir. Shahrbanoo Sadat)
    Berlinale Opening Film
     
  • Lost Land (2025, dir. Akio Fujimoto)
    Winner of the Orizzonti Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival and the Nativa Award at the Alternativa Film Festival

Elephants in the Fog

Four Daughters

No Good Men

Lost Land

With our second film slate, we are expanding our global reach to give buyers and audiences access to even more exceptional, high-impact storytelling. Our latest acquisitions have already proven themselves on the world stage — from a Cannes prize-winner to acclaimed titles featured at Venice, Berlinale. We're incredibly proud to represent them and look forward to getting them in front of broadcasters and streaming platforms — and by extension audiences — that might not have had the chance to see them otherwise.

Avital Lavi
Head of Alternativa Distribution

With these latest acquisitions, Alternativa Distribution’s growing line-up of impact-driven titles reaches 14 films in its first year. We will represent Elephants in the Fog in multiple territories across Asia and Latin America; No Good Men across Asia, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), and Sub-Saharan Africa; Four Daughters across Latin America and Asia; and Lost Land across Southeast Asia (excluding Malaysia), the Nordics, Poland, and Portugal. The expanding catalogue and international reach reflect our mission to build a fairer distribution model for filmmakers from the Global South while bringing socially meaningful films to audiences worldwide.

Arsen Tomsky, CEO and Founder of inDrive

Exceptional filmmaking can come from anywhere, but access to international audiences remains to be a process hindered by a deeply unequal system. Alternativa Distribution was created to challenge that imbalance. This slate has been carefully curated and showcases the high quality and transformative power of filmmaking from the Global South, and the positive impact these films can have when they reach wider audiences. To have built a portfolio of 14 titles in our first year is an important milestone, and we're proud of the momentum behind our mission to bring these stories to the viewers who deserve to see them.

Arsen Tomsky
Founder and CEO, inDrive
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