A few high profile festival award wins will get your Canadian film selling on the other side of the world, Denis Villeneuve has discovered.

Taiwan distributor Hiatus Media has purchased the local rights to Villeneuve’s Incendies from international sales agent Entertainment One.

The Taiwanese market pick-up follows the French and Arabic language film snagging juried awards at the Toronto International Film Festival, and just-concluded festivals in Vancouver and Warsaw.

Incendies, which portrays twins journeying to the Middle East to untangle their family roots, bowed in Venice before generating positive buzz in Telluride and Toronto.

Canada’s contender for the Academy Award’s best foreign language film competition was financed through Telefilm’s Canada as a Canada-France coproduction between Montreal-based micro_scope and TS Productions in Paris.

Earlier sales of Incendies were made to Sony Pictures Classics in the U.S. market, Happiness Distribution in France, Germany’s Aresenal, Italy’s Lucky Red and Shani Films in Israel.

Incendies stars Lubna Azabal, Méissa Désormeaux-Poulin, Maxim Gaudette, Rémy Girard, and is produced by Luc Déry and Kim McCraw.

Based on the stage play by Wajdi Mouawad, Villeneuve adapted the project for the big screen.