Broker

Source: CJ Entertainment

‘Broker’

Picturehouse Entertainment’s bulging release slate for the UK and Ireland now includes Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Cannes Competition title Broker.

Broker is the first Korean-language film from the Japanese director, who won the Palme d’Or at Cannes in 2018 with Shoplifters.

Song Kang-ho, Gang Dong-won, Lee Ji-eun, Doona Bae and Lee Joo-young star in the story about two men who have taken a child from a ‘baby box’, where parents leave infants they cannot raise.

Sales outfit CJ ENM has also sealed deals with Metropolitan for France, Triart Film for Scandinavia, Koch Films for Germany and Italy September Films for, Benelux, Edko for , Hong Kong and Macau and Madman for Australia and New Zealand. Neon has North America. CJ ENM said it has now sold 171 territories.