Overview

• The Fin world-premiered on August 11 in Locarno’s Filmmakers of the Present section.
• Reviews have highlighted its immersive atmosphere, micro-acting performances, evocative cinematography and Haam Seok-young’s melancholic score.
• Seesaw Pictures, Essential Filmproduktion and the Doha Film Institute backed the production under a South Korea–Germany–Qatar co-production model.
• Park spent three years in post-production developing a grainy, 16mm-inspired visual style by layering digital ‘pollution’ textures influenced by Harmony Korine.
• The film’s allegory uses a unified, post-apocalyptic Korea and the marginalized ‘Omegas’ to interrogate state propaganda, labor exploitation and pandemic-era alienation.