134 minutes - South Korea 2022 - Subtitles - Dir: July Jung Starring: Bae Doona, Kim Si-eun and Sim Hee-seop South Korean writer-director July Jung’s second feature following A GIRL AT MY DOOR (2014) is a powerful, brilliantly acted psychological drama inspired by real life events. Cheerful, dance-loving high school student Sohee (Kim Si-eun) starts an internship at a call centre. The job soon turns out to be highly demanding and Sohee finds herself disillusioned and struggling to the point where she can't take it. When detective Oh Yu-jin (Bae Doo-na) investigates her death, she unravels Sohee’s past and the twisted, deeply toxic and exploitative reality of the job market in South Korea – referred to as a "management of terror” by employees, authorities and the education system alike. With sobriety and precision director July Jung depicts a chilling and condensed contemporary portrait of youth exploited by unpaid internships. Winner of Special Jury Prize at TOKYO FILMeX; Closing Film, Cannes Critics Week 2022
(Marie-Pierre Richard, programme curator & co-organiser, East Asia Film Festival Ireland & EAFFI Discoveries) “There’s a real sense of fury behind this film...NEXT SOHEE speaks for people who do not have a voice, and it does so eloquently.” EyeForFilm
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