English poster for Korean director Chung Ji-young’s “My Identify” / Courtesy of Let’s Movies and Aura Photos
“My Identify,” the newest movie from director Chung Ji-young, has been invited to display on the Berlin Worldwide Movie Competition, the movie’s manufacturing studios stated Friday,
Starring Yeom Hye-ran of the hit Netflix sequence “When Life Provides You Tangerines,” the thriller drama is about to obtain its world premiere within the Discussion board part, a strand specializing in socially engaged and adventurous cinema, Let’s Movies and Aura Photos stated. Jang Jae-hyun’s supernatural thriller “Exhuma” was additionally invited to the identical class in 2024.
The pageant described “My Identify” as a piece that delicately illuminates the trauma left by a tragic historical past throughout generations and underscores the significance of breaking a protracted silence, based on the studios.
Set towards the backdrop of the 1948 folks’s rebellion on Jeju Island, the movie follows an 18-year-old boy who needs to solid off a reputation that doesn’t go well with him and his mom, who should shield that title in any respect prices, as they hint a 50-year-old promise hidden behind it.
Yeom performs the mom, who has raised her son alone and confronts the reality buried in her misplaced recollections.
The Jeju rebellion started on April 3, 1948, as a protest towards the U.S. military-led administration following Korea’s liberation from Japanese colonial rule. The federal government at the moment labeled the unrest a communist revolt and carried out brutal crackdowns, killing an estimated 14,000 to 30,000 civilians. It stays one of many bloodiest authorities crackdowns on civilians in Korean historical past.
The film is about for native theatrical launch in April.
