Playing at 3 p.m., Friday: Hello, Stranger (처음 만난 사람들) 112 min. – Korea – English subtitles Directed by: Kim Dong-Hyun (김동현) Category: Refugees & Resettlement (탈북난민 그리고 정착) * winner of the Busan International Film Festivals NETPAC (The Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema) Award for the best Korean film in New Currents or Korean Cinema Today-Vision section About the director: Kims The Dinner (2013) was the closing film at the Busan International Film Festival last year, and he is serving as a judge at this years BIFF for the newly created Daemyung Culture Wave Award. Synopsis: Jin-ook, who has just completed his resettlement training after coming from North Korea, gets lost going to his new home on his first night in Seoul. He and Hye-jung, a taxi driver who came from the North 10 years ago, spend all night looking for his home. In the morning he’s supposed to take a bus to Busan to meet other North Korean defector friends, but he gets on the wrong bus and ends up looking after Ting-yoon, an immigrant laborer from Vietnam who can’t speak any Korean. ---Watch the trailer at the link (note that while the trailer doesnt have English subtitles, the screenings at the film festival will have them) ---*RSVP info* at en.nknet.org/events-programs/film-festival/2014/4th-north-korean-human-rights-international-film-festival/
Posted on: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 00:25:01 +0000
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