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Korean Fantastic: Shorts 1

The Tax

Bokyeong Jeremy KIM

Korea2019 20min World Premiere

Program Note

To address the low birth rate and national stability, the government enacts a bill that requires every adult to donate sperm or eggs on a regular basis. Yeonhee is under the legal age, so gets involved in an illegal, surrogate egg market to pay off her debt. With cinematic imagination, the film explores how the next generation has to pay the debts of the previous generation. Notably, the protest sequence rings true in the present day. (BAEK Jaeho)

Diretor

Bokyeong Jeremy KIM

Born in Seoul in 1990. She started studying film in graduate school. The tax (2019), a sci-fi thriller short, is her first film.