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Korean income supplier Finecut has closed respective further deals connected Hong Sangsoo’s Berlin title The Day She Returns, including income to Carlotta Films successful France, Atalante successful Spain and Hugoeast successful China.
The film, which premiered successful nan Panorama conception of this year’s Berlin movie festival, has besides been sold to nan Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) successful nan UK, Cola Films successful Taiwan and BKS Cinema successful Finland. It was antecedently sold to Cinema Guild for North American distribution.
Filmed successful black-and-white pinch Song Seon-mi, Cho Yunhee and Park Mi-so heading nan cast, nan movie follows a female who has conscionable vanished nan sprout of an independent movie and has to springiness 3 interviews astir it. When asked to reenact nan interviews successful her acting class, nan character finds she can’t retrieve them.
Finecut is besides handling world sales, excluding French-speaking Europe and Africa, Luxembourg and South Korea, connected July Jung’s Dora, which is receiving its world premiere successful Cannes Directors Fortnight.
Jung’s 3rd characteristic follows a woman suffering from a tense breakdown who yet finds courageousness wrong herself during a summertime filled pinch humiliation and contempt. Rising Korean character Kim Doyeon (Idiot Girls And School Ghost: School Anniversary) stars arsenic Dora pinch award-winning Japanese character Ando Sakura (Monster, Shoplifters) playing an aged family friend.
Jung is nan first Korean female head to person 3 consecutive characteristic films selected for Cannes pursuing her debut A Girl At My Door, which premired successful Un Certain Regard successful 2014, while her sophomore activity Next Sohee screened arsenic nan closing movie of Cannes Critics Week successful 2022.
Finecut’s Cannes slate besides includes Park Hoon-jung’s Tristes Tropiques, which won nan Silver Raven Award astatine Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival; upcoming animated 3D characteristic Long Long Night; and Japanese scary thriller Wash Away.
