Upstart Distribution Company Enigma Releasing Launches with Cannes Film Festival Title Two Prosecutors

New feature film distribution outfit Enigma Releasing has formally launched in the Benelux. Its first output, the critically acclaimed Cannes Film Festival-selected drama Two Prosecutors (94% on Rotten Tomatoes), will premiere at the prestigious Film Fest Gent on the 14th of October, preceded by a press screening two days earlier. You are hereby invited to the screening and to conduct interviews, or, if unable to attend, to cover the company and/or film from afar.

Enigma Releasing acquired the Belgian rights to Two Prosecutors from sales agent Coproduction Office after making an offer during the Cannes Marché du Film earlier this year. It will handle the local rollout, with its colleagues at Pyramid distributing the film France, where it is set for a November 5 release. This coordinated cross-border push clearly marks an exceedingly rare momentum play for a new indie distributor, positioning upstart company Enigma as an agile and swift-acting agent with international reach.

CEO Julien Kerknawi previously garnered a lot of press attention with The Last Front, a WWI feature starring Iain Glen (Game of Thrones), which he both co-wrote and directed. Although the film was plagued with financing and post-production setbacks, Kerknawi still managed to steer it to completion. Last year, The Last Front was eventually released theatrically in the U.S. and the UK, with digital covered by Quiver (North America) and Altitude (UK), as well as additional deals secured in Australia and other territories. Variety praised the film as a ‘gritty anti-war drama’, marking Kerknawi’s entry into the international marketplace.

Needing to overcome a significant series of obstacles while making The Last Front made for a significant learning experience for the Belgian filmmaker, forging the scars and business insights that seem to be behind his pivot from filmmaker to distributor. With more experience as a writer, director, and now distributor under his belt, Kerknawi is now poised to lead Enigma into the rare territory that sits between the explored but stale and the unknown but unpredictable… so stay tuned!