NEXT SOHEE

DIRECTOR: JULY JUNG
134 minutes. SOUTH KOREA. 2022. Languages: KOREAN. Subtitled. Colour.

Winner of Special Jury Prize at TOKYO FILMeX; Closing Film, Cannes Critic’s Week 2022

The screening at IFI DUBLIN will be introduced by film critic Tara Brady, The Irish Times

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South Korean writer-director July Jung’s second feature following A Girl at My Door (2014), is a powerful, brilliantly acted psychological drama inspired by real life events.

Cheerful, dance-loving high school student Sohee (Kim Si-eun) starts an internship at a call centre. The job soon turns out to be highly demanding and Sohee finds herself disillusioned and struggling to the point where she can't take it. When detective Oh Yu-jin (Bae Doo-na) investigate her death, she unravels Sohee’s past and the twisted, deeply toxic and exploitative reality of the job market in South Korea – referred to as a "management of terror” by employees, authorities and the education system alike.

With sobriety and precision director July Jung depicts a chilling and condensed contemporary portrait of youth exploited by unpaid internships.

MARIE-PIERRE RICHARD