Film Information
Year: 2023
Duration: 108'
Language: VOSE
Genre: Action, Thriller
Synopsis
A story about a diplomat and a National Intelligence Service (NIS) agent who struggle and risk their lives on foreign soil to save Korean hostages that have been abducted in Afghanistan. The film is based on true events of 2007 South Korean hostage crisis in Afghanistan, when 23 South Korean missionaries were captured and held hostage in Afghanistan. Park Dae-sik, the NIS agent, conducts a rescue operation and negotiations with the help of diplomat Jung Jae-ho .
Director
Yim Soonrye, born in 1960, first majored in English Language and Literature before completing a master’s degree in Theatre and Film at Hanyang University. Having found her interest in film while watching dozens of films at the French Cultural Center, she decided to study filmmaking at the University of Paris. Her short film Promenade in the Rain (1994), received the Grand Prize of the Seoul Short Film Festival. Her feature debut Three Friends (1996) was first presented at the Busan International Film Festival, where it picked up the NETPAC Award. Her latest work The Point Men, released in 2023, fictionalizes a hostage situation that occurred in Afghanistan in 2007 when a group of Korean missionaries was captured by Talibans. Yim Soon Rye is one of the most representative female directors in Korea. Yim, with her own themes and aesthetics, created a cinema that showed the daily lives of people in a society that alienated them, and by doing this, she marked a unique path and a personal filmography that continues today.
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