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Which 1995 film by U-Wei Haji Saari, an adaptation of William Faulkner's 'Barn Burning' transposed to a Kelantan village, became the first Malaysian film selected for the Cannes Film Festival (Un Certain Regard)?

'Kaki Bakar' (The Arsonist) marked the breakthrough of Malaysian cinema at Cannes; U-Wei Haji Saari transposed Faulkner's story about class, loyalty, and arson to the Malay east coast.

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