Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2008: #42 Treeless Mountain

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Treeless Mountain So Yong Kim

[Exclusive Image – click on picture for larger version. Song Hee Kim as Bin (in the princess dress) and Hee Yeon Kim as Jin. Photo Credit: © 2008-EUN YOUNG KIM. All rights reserved.]

#42.Treeless Mountain

Director/Writer
: So Yong Kim
Producers
: Bradley Rust Gray (In Between Days), Ben Howe, Lars Knudsen and Jay Van Hoy (Old Joy)
Distributor: Currently Seeking Distribution

The Gist: Left by her mother in the care of their unsympathetic aunt, 5-year-old Ling must take care of her younger sister as they adjust to a harsher life in the rural countryside of South Korea.

Fact: This was selected for Sundance Institute’s 2006 Directors Lab and was one of 15 selected for the 2007 edition of the Cannes Film Festival’s Atelier de la Cinefondation.

See It:
Much of the reason why I’m looking forward to seeing Treeless Mountain is So Yong Kim’s debut film In Between Days (2006) won a Special Jury Prize for independent vision at Sundance and the FIPRESCI Prize at the Berlin Film Festival.

Release Date/Status?: Currently in post-production, a fall film festival release is foreseeable.

 
Eric Lavallée
Eric Lavalléehttps://www.ericlavallee.com
Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist, and critic at IONCINEMA.com, established in 2000. A regular at Sundance, Cannes, and Venice, Eric holds a BFA in film studies from the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013, he served on the narrative competition jury at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson’s "This Teacher" (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). He is a Golden Globes Voter, member of the ICS (International Cinephile Society) and AQCC (Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma).

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