Kim Ji-Young, Born 1982(HKAFF 2019)

Since 2016, Cho Nam-joo’s novel about an everywoman’s life filled with everyday discrimination has sold over a million copies, inspiring much discussion, support and controversy along the way. Actress-turned-filmmaker Kim Do-young adapts the feminist novel for her featurelength debut, which reunites Train to Busan’s Jung Yu-mi and Gong Yoo. Kim Ji-young is an ordinary woman born in 1982 with the most ordinary of names. She goes to school, gets a job, marries and becomes a stay-at-home mom. From childhood to motherhood, she endures the ingrained sexism and inequality that all Korean women face in the course of their lives. Pushed to the brink, she begins to crack during a family gathering.