Clean Up

Clean Up
Korea | 2018 | 104’ | DCP | Colour | Korean | Group: C

Director: Kwon Man-ki

An introduction of the film will be given by film delegation before the film screening

Jung-ju has lost her son to heart disease and can’t break free from the pain of that loss. She spends most of her waking hours working, drinking, and going to church. One day, Min-gu, a young man newly out of prison joins her cleaning company. Looking shabby and his face covered with scars, Jung-ju recognizes Min-gu, the boy who Jung-ju and her husband had kidnapped 12 years ago for the ransom money for their son’s operation. Now Jung-ju’s life is disturbed by him. Inevitably, Jung-ju becomes curious about Min-gu as much as she feels guilty.

Korea’s Kwon Man-ki was born in Busan in 1983 and studied cinema at Sangmyung University and at Chung Ang University’s Graduate School of Advanced Imaging Science. He then majored in film directing at the Korean Academy Of Film Arts. His 27 minute short film Telepata (2015) won the top prize at the the Daegu Independent Short Film Festival, first prize at the Seoul Independent Film Festival and the jury award at the Brussels International Short Film Festival. His first feature Clean Up had its world premiere at Busan in October where it won the New Currents Award.