As previously reported exclusively on Screendaily, Cohen Media Group will handle the North American theatrical and DVD release of the Toronto-bound special presentation.

Focus Features-owned alternative distribution channel Focus World has come on board to control all digital media and television rights.

Wild Bunch holds international rights to the adaptation of Yasmina Khadra’s international bestseller by 3B Production, Douri Film, UAG, Scope Pictures and Random House Films.

The French film, in Arabic and Hebrew, follows an Israeli-Palestinian surgeon who discovers his wife’s involvement in a suicide bomb and enters Palestinian territory to find the people who recruited her.