Return to Seoul

After an impulsive travel decision to visit friends, Freddie, 25, returns to South Korea for the first time, where she was born before being adopted and raised in France. Freddie suddenly finds herself embarking on an unexpected journey in a country she knows so little about, taking her life in new and unexpected directions.

Filmmaker Davy Chou will join in-person for a post-screening conversation.

This screening serves as a kick-off event for Cornell Cinema's annual French Film Festival, supported by Albertine Cinematheque, a program of FACE Foundation and Villa Albertine, with support from the CNC / Centre National du Cinema, and SACEM / Fonds Culturel Franco-Américain.

Film website: www.sonyclassics.com/film/returntoseoul/

In French, Korean, English with English subtitles

About the filmmaker
Davy Chou is a French-Cambodian filmmaker born in 1983. In 2009, he established a filmmaking workshop in four Phnom Penh schools and founded a collective for young Cambodian filmmakers . Golden Slumbers, a documentary about the birth of Cambodian cinema in the 60’s, was his first feature-length film produced by Vycky Films. It was selected by the Berlinale Forum and the  Busan International Film Festival. His fiction short film Cambodia 2099 premiered in Cannes’ Director's Fortnight and won among others the Grand Prize of Curtas Vila do Conde. His first narrative feature, Diamond Island, premiered at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival Critic's Week and won the SACD Prize. Return to Seoul is his most recent feature and premiered in Un Certain Regard at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival. Davy Chou is based in Paris, France and Phnom Penh, Cambodia.