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Return to Seoul
Davy Chou
Cambodia/France/Germany/South
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Korea/Belgium
2022, English, French, and Korean with English subtitles, 115 min.
USA Premiere
Saint Omer
Alice Diop USA
2022, French with English subtitles, 118 min.
USA Premiere
A young French woman finds herself spontaneously tracking down the South Korean birth parents she has never met while on vacation in Seoul. From this seemingly simple premise, Cambodian-French filmmaker Davy Chou spins an unpredictable, careering narrative that takes place over the course of nearly ten years.
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Pietro Marcello
France/Italy/Germany
2022, French with English subtitles, 103 min.
North American Premiere
Successful journalist and author Rama (Kayije Kagame) attends the trial of a young Senegalese woman (Guslagie Malanga), who has allegedly murdered her own baby daughter. Rama’s plan to write about Laurence in a book inspired by the Medea myth increasingly unravels as she becomes overwhelmed by the case in Alice Diop’s arresting yet highly sensitive, superbly acted fiction feature debut.
One of contemporary cinema’s most versatile talents, Pietro Marcello (Martin Eden) proves again he is as comfortable in the realm of folklore as he is in creative nonfiction with this enchanting period fable that delicately interweaves realist drama, ethereal romance, and musical flights of fancy.
