EXCLUSIVE: Indie distributor Several Futures has picked up North American distribution rights to the 4K restoration of Lebanese filmmaker Jocelyne Saab’s narrative debut feature, The Razor’s Edge .

The restoration will debut at the New York Film Festival before opening at BAM in October for a week-long run before expanding across the US and Canada.

Set amid the Lebanese Civil War, Saab’s fiction film centers on the bond formed between a fortysomething painter and a teenager who grew up in war-torn Beirut. The new 4K release marks 40 years since the film’s original debut.

“Jocelyne Saab is one of the most important filmmakers of the 20th Century,” Graham Carter, of Several Futures, said in a statement. “Her documentaries are invaluable records, and her fiction is just as key to

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