Country: France
Year: 2022
Duration: 119'
On an impulse to reconnect with her origins, Freddie, 25, returns to South Korea for the first time, where she was born before being adopted and raised in France. The headstrong young woman starts looking for her biological parents in a country she knows so little about, taking her life in new and unexpected directions.
Biography
film director
Davy Chou
(Fontenay-aux-Roses, Francia, 1983) is a French director and producer based between Paris and Phnom Penh. He co-founded the French production company Vycky Films and the Cambodian production company Anti-Archive. He directed in 2011 Golden Slumbers (Forum - Berlinale 2012), a documentary about the birth of Cambodian cinema in the 1960s and its brutal destruction by the Khmer Rouge in 1975. He has also directed several short films including Cambodia 2099 (Directors’ Fortnight - Cannes 2014). His first feature, Diamond Island was awarded the SACD Prize at Critics’ Week- Cannes 2016. His second feature, Return to Seoul is selected at Un Certain Regard – Cannes 2022.
FILMOGRAFIA
Expired (cm, 2008), Le sommeil d’or (doc, 2011), Cambodia 2099 (cm, 2014), Diamond Island (2016), Retour à Séoul (2022).
Declaration
film director
“In 2011, I went to present my first feature-length documentary, Golden Slumbers, at the Busan International Film Festival in South Korea. A friend of mine, Laure Badufle, came with me to show me what she called “her country”. Laure was born in South Korea and was adopted in France when she was one year old. We took a bus, and I found myself having lunch with her biological father and grandmother. I found that experience very moving. In their exchanges, there was a whole mix of emotions, sadness, bitterness, incomprehension, and regrets... As I was profoundly moved by this situation, I decided that one day, maybe, I would make a film about it.”
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR, SCREENPLAY: Davy Chou. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Thomas Favel. FILM EDITING: Dounia Sichov. PRODUCTION DESIGN: Chi-youl Choi, Bo-Kyung Sin. COSTUME DESIGN: Claire Dubien Yi Choong-Yun. MUSIC: Jérémie Arcache, Christophe Musset. SOUND: Vincent Villa. CAST: Park Ji-Min, Oh Kwang-Rok, Guka Han, Kim Sun-Young, Yoann Zimmer, Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Hur Ouk-Sook, Émeline Briffaud, Lim Cheol-Hyun, Son Seung-Beom, Kim Dong-Seok. PRODUCERS: Charlotte Vincent, Katia Khazak. PRODUCTION: Aurora Films. CO-PRODUCTION: Vandertastic Films, Frakas Productions.
CONTACT:
Mubi - Irene Musumeci imusumeci@mubi.com
