International Premiere for Dankook University Feature
KIM Dae-hwan’s
End of Winter has been invited to take part in the Berlin International Film Festival’s Forum section. This screening will be its international premiere, following its debut in the Busan International Film Festival’s New Currents lineup last October.
Highlighting experimental and documentary works, often by younger filmmakers, the Forum section will this year stage its 45th edition and screen 43 films from around the world, including 31 world premieres and 10 international premieres.
A debut work by KIM Dae-hwan,
End of Winter is a graduate work from Dankook University's Graduate School of Cinematic Contents, which has in recent years risen to prominence, following the success of
LEE Yong-seung’s
10 Minutes (2013), which also screened at Busan and Berlin as well as winning the Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema’s top award, and
JANG Woo-jin’s
A Fresh Start (2014), which took the JJ Star Award for Best Korean Film at last year’s Jeonju International Film Festival.
KIM’s film takes places in a snowed in home in the countryside, where a family are forced to remain in close proximity following the sudden announced by its patriarch during his retirement party that he intends to divorce his wife.
