"Seoul's night" was invited to Hot Docs.
On the 25th, MBC said the documentary "Seoul's Night" (The Seoul Guardians) has been officially invited to the 33rd Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Film Festival (Hot Docs), which will be held from Apr. 23 to May 3.
Hot Docs is the most influential documentary film festival in North America. It presents about 100 documentaries each year and serves as an international platform attended by major figures in the film and broadcasting industries, investors and distributors. It is especially regarded as an important base for North American entry and global expansion of works.
Among them, the festival invited "Seoul's Night" to the popular section "World Showcase," which selects and introduces works with both artistic merit and topicality produced over the past year. In the past, outstanding Korean documentary films such as "Old Partner" (2009), "My Love, Don't Cross That River" (2014) and "Queer My Friends" (2022) have been invited to Hot Docs.
"Seoul's Night" (directed by Kim Jong-woo·Kim Shin-wan·Jo Cheol-young) is a documentary that densely records the tense situation that unfolded at the National Assembly on the night of Dec. 3, 2024, immediately after the declaration of martial law by Yoon Suk-yeol, and dramatically portrays how the memory of Gwangju in 1980, engraved in citizens' minds, influences current reality. The film attracted great attention earlier this year by ranking second in audience rating at the 55th International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), and it was also recognized for its artistic merit by receiving a Jury Special Mention from the Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema (NETPAC) jury.
Following its success in Rotterdam, "Seoul's Night," invited to Hot Docs, the largest documentary film festival in North America, is expected to resonate broadly with North American audiences facing a crisis of democracy and political polarization, and further expand its connections with international audiences.<
[Photo] Courtesy of MBC.
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