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Ritual Acquires Rights to Sho Miyake's Golden Leopard Winner 'Two Seasons, Two Strangers'
Ritual Acquires Rights to Sho Miyake's Golden Leopard Winner 'Two Seasons, Two Strangers'
Press release
Montreal-based Ritual is pleased to announce that it has acquired the Canadian rights to Sho Miyake's Two Seasons, Two Strangers, this year's Golden Leopard winner at Locarno. The company plans a theatrical release on June 19, 2026, to be executed in close collaboration with the "auteurist and anti-imperialist" Several Futures, the film's US distributor.
The acquisition strengthens Ritual's ongoing commitment to Asian cinema, following Wei Shujun's Only the River Flows and ahead of Hong Sang-soo's What Does That Nature Say to You. It marks the company's second Japanese auteur drama after Kohei Igarashi's Super Happy Forever, and Ritual says it plans to remain opportunistic with the niche's catalog films in the coming years.
"These acquisitions reflect our ambition to assert Ritual's leadership in the Canadian foreign-language film market," says William Gagnon, Head of Sales and Acquisitions at Ritual. "Few distributors, for instance, brought Super Happy Forever to theaters despite its global rollout on MUBI — but we believed it deserved that opportunity. Step by step, we're working to grow audiences, strengthen the ecosystem, and ensure that remarkable international cinema has a meaningful place in Canada's cultural landscape."
Ritual is Canada's only all-rights distribution company entirely dedicated to international festival discoveries, restored modern masterpieces, and bold contemporary films that challenge how we see.
Read in Screen International