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EXCLUSIVE: Davy Chou’s Return to Seoul is now in post-production

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- The new feature film by the director of Diamond Island is produced by Aurora Films, together with Vanderstic and Frakas

EXCLUSIVE: Davy Chou’s Return to Seoul is now in post-production
Director Davy Chou

Revealed at the 2012 Berlinale Forum by way of the documentary Le Sommeil d’or [+see also:
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, and very well received at Cannes’ 2016 Critics’ Week via to his first fiction film Diamond Island [+see also:
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, Davy Chou wrapped filming on his latest opus (another fiction film) Return to Seoul [+see also:
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interview: Davy Chou
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]
on 9 December. The cast stars South Koreans Ji-Min Park, Oh Kwang-Rok, Guka Han, Kim Sun-Young, Hur Ouk-SookLim Cheol-Hyun and Son Seung-Beom, , Belgium’s Yoann Zimmer (Savage [+see also:
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, Summer of 85 [+see also:
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) and French Emeline Briffaud and Louis-Do de Lencquesaing (recently seen in Lost Illusions [+see also:
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).

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Written by Davy Chou himself, the story kicks off in Seoul. Twenty-five-year-old French woman Freddie returns to Korea - the country she was born in before being adopted by a French couple - for the very first time. She decides to track down her biological parents, but her journey takes a surprising turn…

Return to Seoul is produced by Charlotte Vincent and Katia Khazak on behalf of Aurora Films, in co-production with Germany’s Vandertastic Films and Belgium’s Frakas Productions. Executive production is managed by Mere Cinema and Visual Walkabout, in South Korea and Romania respectively, which is also where the six-week film shoot unfolded. Pre-purchased by Ciné+ and Be TV, the feature film likewise enjoys the backing of the CNC (via an advance on receipts), the French-German co-production mini-treaty, the SOFICA companies Cinémage and Cofimage. Distribution in France will be steered by Les Films du Losange

For the record, Aurora Films is currently overseeing production on La Bête dans la jungle [+see also:
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by Patric Chiha (starring Anaïs Demoustier and Tom Mercier up front in the cast) and post-production on Annie Colère [+see also:
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by Blandine Lenoir (starring Laure Calamy and Zita Hanrot) and Dirty, Difficult, Dangerous [+see also:
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interview: Wissam Charaf
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]
by Wissam Charaf.

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(Translated from French)

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