Exhuma (2024)
Director: Jang Jae-hyun Run Time: 134 min. Rating: NR Release Year: 2024
Starring: Choi Min-sik, Kim Go-eun, Kim Jae-chul, Lee Do-hyun, Yoo Hai-jin
Country: South Korea
Language: Korean with English subtitles
About the film:
Official Selection, 2024 Berlin Film Festival
When a renowned shaman and her protégé are hired by a wealthy, enigmatic family, they begin investigating the cause of a disturbing supernatural illness that affects only the first-born children of each generation. With the help of a knowledgeable mortician and the country’s most revered geomancer, they soon trace the affliction’s origin to a long-hidden family grave located on sacred ground. Sensing an ominous aura surrounding the burial site, the team opts to exhume and relocate the ancestral remains immediately. But as something much darker emerges, they soon discover what befalls those who dare to mess with the wrong grave.
About the filmmaker:
Jang Jae-Hyun was born in South Korea in 1981. He studied at the Korean National University of Arts. His short film 12th Assistant Deacon (2014) won the Best Director award at the Jeonju International Film Festival and Best Short Film at the Paris Korean Film Festival. Continuing his directorial journey, he wrote and directed the feature films The Priests (2015) and Svaha: The Sixth Finger (2019). He premiered his third feature film, Exhuma (2024), at the 2024 Berlin Film Festival.
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