Korean gross sales banner Finecut has locked in a string of worldwide offers for “A Woman With Closed Eyes,” a psychological thriller starring breakout “Pachinko” actor Kim Minha, forward of its European Movie Market (EFM) premiere in Berlin.
The characteristic debut from director Chun Sunyoung has been acquired by Crimson Fortress Group for CIS territories, The Klockworx for Japan, Media4Fun for Poland, Cola Movies for Taiwan and Aeonbeta for Vietnam. The thriller follows a detective investigating a bestselling writer’s homicide who discovers an sudden connection to the prime suspect.
Kim stars because the suspect. The detective is portrayed by Moon Choi, recognized for her performances in “Ship Us From Evil,” “Okja” and “Anarchist From Colony.”
The movie is offered by Solaire Companions, a enterprise capital agency that has backed quite a few field workplace hits together with “Parasite,” “Excessive Job,” “12.12: The Day” and “Subsequent Sohee.”
Chun beforehand gained recognition when her quick movie “Good Night time” was chosen for Cannes Critics’ Week. After premiering on the Busan Worldwide Movie Competition, “A Woman With Closed Eyes” is ready to shut the Florence Korea Movie Competition.
The Seoul-based gross sales agent can be dealing with Hong Sangsoo’s newest competitors title “What Does That Nature Say to You” – the auteur’s twelfth Berlin choice following his Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize win eventually 12 months’s pageant.
At EFM, Finecut will unveil first footage from revenge thriller “Tristes Tropiques,” the brand new movie from action-noir specialist Park Hoon-jung (“New World,” “The Witch” franchise). The star-studded worldwide solid contains Park Hae-soo (“Squid Recreation”), Kim Myung-min (“Your Honor”), Lee Sin-young (“Crash Touchdown on You”), Park Yu-rim (“Drive My Automotive”), and Taiwanese stars Austin Lin (“Marry My Useless Physique”), Chen Yi-Wen (“The Pig, The Snake, and The Pigeon”) and Wang Po-Chieh (“Eye of the Storm”).
The corporate’s Berlin slate additionally options Ok-pop idol D.O.’s musical drama “Secret: Untold Melody,” the festival-lauded animated characteristic “Exorcism Chronicles: The Starting,” and horror-thriller “Noise.”
