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For its first repertory release, independent distributor The Cinema Guild has acquired theatrical rights to a new restoration of Dominique Benicheti's "Cousin Jules," four decades after it won the Special Jury Prize at the Locarno Film Festival. The new restoration debuted at the New York Film Festival last year, and the film will receive a theatrical release later this year. The deal was negotiated by Ryan Krivoshey of The Cinema Guild with Patricia Matthews and Peter Agoos on behalf of Dominique Benicheti's sister, Genevieve Benicheti. Richard Pena and Dan Talbot, who have been among the film’s most passionate supporters over the years, advised Matthews and Agoos. Benicheti, who passed away in 2011, was an incredibly technologically minded filmmaker who is best known as being on the forefront of artfully using 3D in French cinema, "Cousin Jules" is an achievement of an experimental documentary in which he filmed in...