THE RETURN Wins Golden Zenith at Montreal World Film Festival
Sep 13, 2017
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by KIM Su-bin
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HEO Chul’s The Return won the Golden Zenith Award for Best First Fiction Feature Film at the 41st Montreal World Film Festival (MWFF). Based on a play of the same name, the film tells stories of regular customers who miss their loved ones, set in a bar that goes by the phrase, ‘Drink makgeolli (rice wine) here and the one you miss will return’. It is HEO’s feature debut, who previously directed two documentary films, Ari Ari The Korean Cinema (2012) and Mira Story (2015), and stars KIM Yu-seok, SON Soo-hyun, LEE Woo-jin and PARK Byung-eun. It was also invited to the Korea Cinemascape section of the 18th Jeonju International Film Festival last May.