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Palm Springs International Film Festival 2024

This year the spotlight is on South Korea.

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Memories Of Murder Memories Of Murder
Memories Of Murder and In The Land Of Saints And Sinners
Cobweb (Country: South Korea; Year: 2023; Director: Kim Ji-Woon; Writer: Shin Yeon-Shick; Stars: Song Kang-ho, Jeon Yeo-binJung, Woo-sung, Kim Min-jae)
An experimental and genre-defying drama shot entirely on sound stages in support of a film-within-a-film narrative.
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In Our Day (Country: South Korea; Year: 2023; Director: Hong Sangsoo; Writer: Hong Sangsoo)
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In The Land Of Saints And Sinners (Country: Ireland; Year: 2023; Director: Robert Lorenz; Writer: Terry Loane, Mark Michael McNally; Stars: Liam Neeson, Sarah Greene, Kerry Condon, Jack Gleeson, Ciarán Hinds, Conor MacNeill, Colm Meaney, Desmond Eastwood, Seamus O'Hara, Bernadette Carty, James Sadat, Mark O'Regan, Valentine Olukoga, Conor Hamill, James P. McKeever)
A retired assassin finds himself drawn into a game of cat and mouse.
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Memories Of Murder (Salinui Chueok) (Country: South Korea; Year: 2003; Director: Bong Joon Ho; Writer: Bong Joon Ho, Kim kwang-rim; Stars: Song kang-ho, Kim sang-kyung, Kim roe-ha, Song jae-ho, Byeon hie-bong, Ko seo-hie)
Foolish cops investigate South Korean serial killer.
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Sleep (Jam) (Country: South Korea; Year: 2023; Director: Jason Yu; Stars: Jung Yu-mi, Lee Sun-kyun)
A pregnant wife becomes worried about her husband's sleeping habits. What starts out as light sleep-talking soon escalates to unexpectedly grotesque behaviour. They consult a sleep clinic without success and as his nightmarish behaviour escalates, they desperately seek help from a shaman.
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