Burning(HKAFF 2018)

FIPRESCI Prize, Cannes Film Festival

Special Presentations, Toronto International Film Festival

South Korean Representative for Academy Awards, Best Foreign Language Film

After eight years away from the camera, master filmmaker Lee Chang-dong returns with one of the year’s most anticipated films. Based on Murakami Haruki’s short story, “Barn Burning”, Lee’s sixth feature film is a smoldering mystery about Jongsu, an aspiring author who becomes obsessed with Hae-mi, a free spirit who claims to be his childhood friend. When Hae-mi returns from a trip with a mysterious rich man with an odd hobby, Jongsu’s obsession takes a dangerous turn. Gripping and enigmatic, Burning is Lee’s angry indictment on class disparity in contemporary South Korea.