The Witch Part 1. The Subversion

The Witch: Part 1. The Subversion.
Korea | 2018 | 125’ | DCP | Colour | Korean | Group: D

Director: Park Hoon-jung

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

10 years ago, when she was just a child, Ja-yoon escaped from a government facility in the middle of an inexplicable incident. She is in shock and has lost her memory. An old couple takes her in even though she doesn’t know her name or age. She grows up to be a bright high school student and enters a nationally televised talent show to win the top prize and help her struggling family out financially. But the moment she appears on TV, strange people start appearing in her life. A man named “Nobleman” stalks her, and she encounters “Dr Baek” and “Mr Choi” who have been searching for her since her appearance. Ja-yoon’s ordinary life is turned upside down in the blink of an eye.

Korea’s Park Hoon-jung started his career as a screenwriter with credits including Kim Jee-woon’s I Saw The Devil (2010) and Ryoo Seung-wan’s The Unjust (2010). He made his directorial debut, also in 2010, with action epic The Showdown, following it up with cop thriller New World (2012) starring Choi Min-sik which scored 4.68m admissions in Korea. Choi also starred in Park’s The Tiger (2015) which won best film and director awards at the Korea Gold Awards festival. Park won the best director award for a thriller at Fantastic Fest for his 2017 feature V.I.P. The Witch: Part 1. The Subversion (2018) is the first of a planned trilogy.