HONG Ki-seon: The Cinema Beyond Suppression

Where the Truth Lies

HONG Ki-seon|Korea|2009 |99min |Color |Feature / Thriller |15+ |No Eng-Subtitle

Code Time Theater Rate GV
738 7/20  20:00 - 21:56 Bucheon City Hall, Fantastic Cube(1F) 15  X
738 7/20  20:00 - 21:56Bucheon City Hall, Fantastic Cube(1F)
15  X

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Program Note

This film is based on a true story. In 1997, a boy is found stabbed to death in the restroom of a restaurant. The prime suspects are released despite numerous testimonies.

Director

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HONG Ki-seon

Hong Ki-seon, who is part of the first generation of the Korean independent film movement, made the initial independent film organization named ‘Seoul Film Collective’(later on to be known as ‘Seoul Visual Collective’). He directed Cutting the Sorrow With a Knife Stuck in the Chest (1992), which was his debut film, and The Road Taken (2003), Where the Truth Lies (2009). The Discloser (2016) is his posthumous work.