Ahead of the film’s Fall theatrical release, here is the official trailer for The Fin, Park Syeyoung’s dystopian science fiction film set in a dystopian post-war “United Korea”.
The Fin world premiered at Locarno Film Festival in the Filmmakers of the Present section, and went on to screen at Filmfest Hamburg, Sitges Film Festival, the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival, and more.
It will kick off its North American rollout this month, with Park in person for screenings at Roxy Cinema New York on November 27 and November 29 and at Toronto’s Revue Cinema on December 1, and a video-on-demand release following in January.
The film is set in a dystopian post-war “United Korea” where mutated mermen called Omegas are society’s outcasts; exploited as cheap labor in an ecologically decimated, water-poor landscape. As one of these pariahs dies, he tasks a cohort (Goh-woo) with finding his daughter Mia (Yeon Yeji) hiding among humans, intent on her receiving his fin in a rite of passing. Meanwhile, Sujin (Kim Pureum), a young civil servant, begins doubting the state’s ideology as she pursues the Omega for her own purposes.
Park’s feature debut The Fifth Thoracic Vertebra, premiered in 2022 and earned numerous accolades, including three awards at the Bucheon Film Festival, the Best Director Award at the Seoul Independent Film Festival, and the Special Jury Mention at the Fantasia Film Festival.
Watch the official trailer for The Fin above.
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