Aloners

OT: Hon-ja-sa-neun Sa-ram-deul

Hong Sung-eun // Republic of Korea (South Korea), 2021
Fiction Feature // FF2021
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Story

A debut that is a focussed study of ghostly encounters and loneliness in modern South Korea. Jina works in the call centre of a credit card company and does her work with aloof professionalism. In her private life too, she avoids contact with her fellow humans. Including her father, from whom she is estranged and whom she observes via a secretly installed video camera. Then she learns that a meeting with her neighbour may not have been as real as she thought. With this strange experience, Jina begins to question her chosen isolation. Shot before the Corona pandemic, Aloners is a fitting portrait of our world in alienation mode.

Director

HONG SUNG-EUN (*1988) studied at the Korean Academy of Film Arts. Actor Gong Seung-yeon as Jina won Best Actress at the Jeonju Festival.

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Info

Original title: Hon-ja-sa-neun Sa-ram-deul

Film type: Fiction Feature

Original language: Korean

Section: Asia Express//FF2021

Production country: Republic of Korea (South Korea)

Produced: 2021

Runtime: 91 min

Language and subtitles: OV with English subtitles

Director: Hong Sung-eun

Screenplay: Hong Sung-eun

Cast: Gong Seung-Yeon, Jung Da-eun, Seo Hyun-woo, Park Jeong-hak, Kim Hannah, Kim Mo-beom

Producer: Lee Seung-won

DoP: Choi Young-ki

Sound: DOLUCK

Editor: Hong Sung-eun

Music: Lim Min-ju

Production design: Oh Se-in

Costume design: Lee Hyun-jin

World Sales: M-Line Distribution

Production Company: KAFA (Korean Academy of Film Arts)

Film contact: Jin Park, M-Line Distribution: jin@mline-distribution.com

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