EXCLUSIVE: BFI Distribution has picked up UK filmmakers Christopher Petit and Emma Matthews’s International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) world premiere documentary D Is For Distance for UK-Ireland release.

A theatrical release is planned for spring 2026.

The documentary is a film essay montage of contemporary footage, archive and cinema history, documenting how Petit and Matthews’ son’s seemingly incurable and debilitating rare form of epilepsy – which wiped out the memory of his childhood – became representative of the woes of the world and how he triumphed against adversity. UK actor Jodhi May narrates.

It was produced by Mika Taanila and Jussi Eerola of Elokuvayhtiö Testifilmi, a Finnish artist-run production company focusing on cinematic art. BFI Distribution directly bought th

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