AANHPI Month: Columbus (2017)

Opens on May 25

Director: Kogonada Run Time: 104 min. Rating: NR Release Year: 2017

Starring: Haley Lu Richardson, John Cho, Michelle Forbes, Parker Posey, Rory Culkin

Country: United States
Language: Korean, English

About the film:

Nominated for Best Cinematography, Best First Feature and Best First Screenplay at the Film Independent Spirit Awards.

Casey lives with her mother in a little-known Midwestern town haunted by the promise of modernism. Jin, a visitor from the other side of the world, attends to his dying father. Burdened by the future, they find respite in one another and the architecture that surrounds them.

“The quietly stirring, exquisitely photographed Columbus (2017) is an art house gem that beautifully illuminates not only the architecture of a small Indiana town, but also the characters who inhabit it.”

—San Francisco Chronicle

About the filmmaker:

Born in Seoul and raised in the Midwest, director and screenwriter Kogonada is known for crafting visually elegant video essays for Filmmaker Magazine, the Criterion Collection and Sight & Sound, among others. He has also directed short films, including the 2012 San Diego Asian Film Festival award-winning Late Summer. His feature directorial debut Columbus (2017) premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for four Film Independent Spirit Awards. Kogonada directed four of eight episodes of the first season of Apple TV’s series Pachinko (2022), based on the novel by Min Jin Lee.

He adapted his second feature After Yang from a short story written by Alexander Weinstein.

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MAJOR SUPPORT
Ohio Arts Council
Greater Columbus Arts Council
The Columbus Foundation
Campus Partners
National Endowment for the Arts

WITH HELP FROM
G&J Pepsi
WOSU Public Media

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