Bamseom Pirates Seoul Inferno(HKAFF 2017)

Move over, Joan Baez – it’s time to for the Bamseom Pirates! Antiestablishment, rebellious, and borderline anarchist, Bamseom Pirates is an infamous two-man noisecore band whose barelycomprehensible lyrics lambasting capitalists, right-wing politics, and North Korea have earned them gigs at protests all over South Korea. However, when their producer is accused of breaking the National Security Law on Twitter, the band members find themselves taking on the law and questioning how free they truly are in their “democratic” nation. Jung Yoon-suk’s incendiary second feature-length documentary will spark debates about the limits of free speech and serve as an important lesson in activism through music.