Lee Chang-dong’s BURNING(버닝), which won the FIPRESCI Competition at the Cannes International Film Festival this year, has been picked up by Palace Films for distribution in Australia and New Zealand.
THR reports that the South Korean film also just sold to Time-in-Portrait Entertainment in China, and Thunderbird Releasing for the U.K., in addition to the dozens of distributors that have already purchased it around the world.
An adaptation of the short story “Barn Burning” written by Haruki Murakami, it concerns an incident that has occurred between Jong-Soo (Yoo Ah-In), Hae-Mi (Jeon Song-Seo) and Ben (Steven Yeun, The Walking Dead, Okja).
READ MORE: Full trailer and poster for BURNING
This is Lee Chang-Dong’s first feature since Poetry (2010), which won the best screenplay award at Cannes that year. So it’s understandable that there’s a fair bit of buzz around this one.
Not dates have been announced for the release yet, but the Australian festival season is far from over. If history is a guide, we may see this at the Sydney Film Festival before it is over, or more likely at the Cannes-friendly Melbourne International Film Festival line-up.
Stay tuned for more details.
