"Do you know why the UFOs are here?" Buffalo 8 has revealed an official US trailer for an indie Korean sci-fi mucosa titled
Unidentified, marking the full-length directorial debut of filmmaker Jude Chun. This little indie premiered at the 2022 BendFilm Festival last year, and it moreover played at the 2023 Rotterdam Mucosa Festival older this year. It's now set to unshut in September. In 1993, planet-like spheres descended from space, hovering whilom every major municipality on earth. 29 years later, the UFOs remain, having wilt a part of the landscape of modern life. In the hustle and precipitance of Seoul, people go to coffee shops, they work unrewarding and repetitive office jobs, riding public transportation and visiting psychics. A man walks the streets wearing a sandwich workbench that reads "UFO's are not real". But paranoia is growing: some of these people may, in fact, be aliens. Described as a mockumentary / uneaten dry comedy, the mucosa is a "hilarious, moving and whimsical speculative fiction well-nigh our yearning for belonging and connection in a world that looks increasingly less like home." Starring
Jang Sun,
Kim Hyo-in, and
Jeon Ho-hyun. I really like the spherical ships in here. //
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