Oscars best international feature 2023: Latest submissions, Cambodia Return To Seoul (Davy Chou)

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Latest submissions

Cambodia: Return To Seoul (Davy Chou)

Inspired by the director’s own life as a French-born Cambodian, the country’s 11^th Oscar submission follows a French woman who returns to Korea for the first time since being adopted as a baby. The film had its world premiere at Cannes in Un Certain Regard and also screened at Busan, Zurich, New York, Toronto, and Athens, where it won best picture. Return To Seoul stars Park Ji-Min in the lead and the rest of the cast includes Oh Kwang-Rok, Kim Sun-Young, Guka Han, Yoann Zimmer and Louis-Do De Lencquesaing. It was produced by France’s Aurora Films in co-production with Cambodia’s Anti-Archive, Germany’s Vandertastic Films and Belgium’s Frakas Pictures. Sony Pictures Classics is distributing the title in the US, Latin America, Middle East, Australia, and New Zealand. Cambodia’s only nomination so far is 2013’s The Missing Picture by Rithy Panh. International sales: mk2

 

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