Bleak Night (Pasuggun)

Feature film, Korea 2010, 116 min, English subtitles

It is the story of the friendship of three young school students that leads to disaster, and the search of a father for the reasons behind his son’s suicide. He eventually has to accept that the dead boy was not just a victim, but a perpetrator, too. Unfathomable, painful scenes of boys who are immune to the suffering of others.

New Current Award at the Busan International Film Festival 2010 and FIPRESCI Award at Hong Kong International Film Festival 2011

Sun 6.5. in the presence of the director

Yoon Sunghyun The film director was born in 1982 in Seoul and graduated at the Seoul Institute of the Arts and an the renowned Korean Academy of Film Arts. He was invited to a range of film festivals with his short films “Drink and Confess” (2009) and “Boys” (2008). Yoon Sunghyun was awarded the FIPRESCI prize in Hong Kong (2011) for his graduation film “Bleak Night” (2010).