EXCLUSIVE: Korean filmmaker debuts his style characteristic The Fin as we speak in Competitors at Locarno. You possibly can watch the movie’s first trailer above.
The movie’s official synopsis reads: In a post-war and ecologically devastated Korea, mutated outcasts known as Omegas are exploited as low-cost labor. Sujin, a younger authorities employee, begins to doubt the state’s ideology as she pursues Mia, an Omega in hiding.
Syeyoung directs from a screenplay he wrote. The forged options Yeji Yeon, Pureum Kim, Goh-Woo, Youngdoo Jeong, and Joowon Meng. A South Korea-Germany-Qatar co-production, producers on the movie embrace Heejung Oh, Philippe Bober, and Syeyoung, who additionally serves as DoP.
In his directorial assertion, Syeyoung stated of the movie: “The misplaced desires of those that perished at sea journey by evening into United Korea’s corroding corridors, echoing bittersweet hymns of sirens. Set in a near-future Korea, The Fin explores the contagion of worry and the making of myths.”
Born in 1996, Syeyoung graduated from the Korea Nationwide College of Arts with a Movie BFA and Video Arts MFA. His first characteristic movie, The Fifth Thoracic Vertebra, gained three awards on the Bucheon Movie Competition, Finest Director Award on the Seoul Unbiased Movie Competition, Particular Jury Point out at Fantasia Movie Competition, and screened at Sitges Movie Competition.
Curiously, the movie’s official credit listing a number of editors, Clémentine Decremps, Syeyoung, Jiyoon Han, and Benjamin Mirguet. The Coproduction Workplace is dealing with world gross sales.
Try the trailer above. Locarno runs till August 16.
