When one of them mysteriously dies, the friendship between three boys reveals unsuspected secrets... This graduation project, made with $50,000 by a 29-year-old director, was a surprise hit at the box office in his country and at festivals around the world, where it was hailed as the next generation of Korean cinema.
Crédits
Screenplay
Lee Jehoon, Jeong Min Park, Jun-Yeong Seo, Shin Woon-seob
Image
Bong-Sun Byun
Editing
Yoon Sung-hyun
Music
Park Min-joon
Production
KAFA Films, Yoon Sung-hyun, Kim Seung-june, Park Ki-yong Jang Hyun-soo
Introduced by Andrew Yoon-beom KIM, student at KAFA
Korean Academy of Film Arts (KAFA) is a national film school established in 1984 by Korean Film Council (KOFIC) in South Korea. It offers various education courses: Directing, Cinematography, as well as Pre-Production Programs for developing Feature film scripts, Feature Film Programs for making feature-length films. So far, approximately 800 films have been produced by KAFA alumni, including director Bong Joon-ho who won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival and the Academy Award for Best Director.
Yoon Sung-hyun
Born in 1982
Born in 1982, YOON Sung-hyun first studied film at the Seoul Institute of the Arts before entering the Korean Academy of Film Arts (KAFA). His early shorts had already been fairly popular on the festival circuit, most notable among them Boys (2008), but his first feature Bleak Night (2010), produced through KAFA’s feature film production research program, catapulted him to widespread recognition in the industry and led him to be hailed as one of the most promising young directors. Not only did he receive the New Currents Award at the Busan International Film Festival, but he also scored Best New Director accolades from both the Blue Dragon Film Awards and the Grand Bell Film Awards, the two most prestigious industry award ceremonies in Korea. On top of launching the career of one of its leads PARK Jung-min, Bleak Night has long represented the ideal debut any young film director would dream of achieving, but this amount of praise also made YOON all the more cautious about his next step. His sophomore feature, Time to Hunt (2020) eventually came out 10 years later as a Netflix Original movie.
Séances
Cinéma Le Royal Salle n°1