Davy Chou’s RETURN TO SEOUL (2022, 115 min) is a startling and uneasy wonder, a film that feels like a beautiful sketch of a tornado he

aded directly toward your house. The first-time actor Park Ji-Min, a French artist, delivers a full-bodied performance as Frédérique Benoît, a reckless 25-year-old adoptee born in South Korea and raised in Paris who books a flight to her birthplace on a whim. Freddie doesn’t speak the language, doesn’t have the names of her biological parents, and doesn’t want to blend in. Chou himself is the French-born grandson of a Cambodian film producer who vanished in 1969 as the Khmer Rouge began to seize control and shred the country’s movie industry, and he seems to understand the contradictions in Freddie’s feeling that she’s been robbed of a life she doesn’t actually want to live. The film was the Cambodian submission to the Oscars 2023.

English subs. Entrance Fee: 5 USD

Director will attend the screening