Return to Seoul

Director: Davy Chou

2022 / 119min / DCP

Raised in France by adoptive parents, headstrong 25-year-old party girl Freddie (Park Ji-min, in a starmaking role) spontaneously returns to her native South Korea for the first time after the cancellation of a connecting flight that was meant to take her to Tokyo—then, unexpectedly, finds herself on the trail of her biological parents in a “native land” to which she is a total stranger. A sensitive, surprising, tragicomic fish-out-of-water story, inspired by Chou’s witnessing of the reunion of an adopted friend with her birth father. “Goes straight to the heart of some very current cultural neuroses… Highlights the limitations of an identity politics based on authenticity or innate belonging.”—Sight & Sound

Introduction and Q&A by director Davy Chou on Saturday, June 22nd