Ava DuVernay‘s Array Releasing has acquired Haile Gerima’s rarely seen 1982 drama “Ashes and Embers” and scheduled the film for restoration and distribution in February through a new initiative known as Array Classics, it was announced Thursday.

“Ashes and Embers” follows an African-American Vietnam veteran wrestling with a turbulent past and a chaotic political climate to make a future for himself.

The film won the FIPRESCI Prize at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1983. It has never been released in theaters, though it will screen on Feb. 25 as part of the Array @ The Broad bi-monthly film series in Los Angeles, followed by engagements at The Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, NY, with additional locations to be announced.