# Clio Barnard’s ‘I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning’ Bought by Kino Lorber for North America (EXCLUSIVE)

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/clio-barnards-i-see-buildings-fall-like-lightning-bought-by-kino-lorber-for-north-america-exclusive/
- Published: 2026-11-05T14:00:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-05T14:36:51+00:00
- Original publisher: Variety
- Original article: https://variety.com/2026/film/global/i-see-buildings-fall-like-lightning-us-theatrical-release-1236939346/
- Topics: Americas, Celebrity, Entertainment, Film, UK, World

## Key points

- Kino Lorber plans a 2027 North American theatrical release.
- The film won Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight audience award.
- It received eight British Independent Film Award nominations.

## Summary

Kino Lorber has acquired North American distribution rights to Clio Barnard’s “I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning”, securing the film a planned US theatrical release in 2027. The deal brings the British director’s latest feature to cinema audiences after it won the audience award at Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight and received strong critical and industry recognition.

Based on Keiran Goddard’s novel and adapted by Enda Walsh, the film follows five childhood friends from a Birmingham estate as they reach their thirties and face unrealised ambitions and strains in their relationships. It stars Anthony Boyle, Joe Cole, Jay Lycurgo, Daryl McCormack and Lola Petticrew; it also won a prize at the Rome Film Festival and received eight British Independent Film Award nominations, including for best British independent film, director and screenplay.

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