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World Premiere
Blesser
Jiseok
Family/Child · Remake/Adaptation · True Story · Women
- CountryKorea
- Production Year2023
- Running Time105min
- FormatDCP
- ColorColor
Program Note
Sang-yeon is a confident and competent political reporter who lives a carefully planned life. After a long wait, she gives birth to twins, but the second one, Ji-woo, is diagnosed with a second-degree developmental disability. That’s when things change. Sang-yeon can no longer be the same person, and everything turns upside down. Based on the autobiographical story of a former journalist and mother of a child with a disability, the film spans over a decade and reveals, through various anecdotes, the very real and concrete challenges that parents and families with disabled children face. In particular, it is when Ji-woo enters elementary school that the prejudicial stigma surrounding disability and the loopholes in the system officially come into play. It takes Sang-yeon a long time to accept the movie’s message that “disability is not something to be cured but a way of life” into her own life. This time taken will overlap and resonate with the time outside of the movie for a while, leaving us with long questions and a long aftermath. (JEONG Jihye)
Director
LEE Sangcheol
Born in Seoul in 1975, Lee Sangcheol graduated from the Department of Theater and Film at Hanyang University and the Korean Academy of Film Arts. He worked as an assistant director on director Myung-se Lee′s films Duelist (2005) and M (2007). His feature film, Jesus Hospital (2011), won the Busan International Film Festival Citizen Critics’ and Best Actress awards. Lee Sangcheol also directed his short film, Fuzzy (2003), and feature films including Metamorphosis (2010), Redemption Song (2014), and The Snobs (2018).
Credit
- Director
LEE Sangcheol - ProducerAga SHIN
- CastJaehwa KIM
Dohyun SUNG
Joowon BEEN
Harin LEE - CinematographyHyunil CHO
- Production DesignJinyoung KIM
- MusicDaewoong IM
- Production CompanyAS FILMS
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