Cannes Fantastic 7

2024 SelectionList

Esper's Light

Esper's Light

Country Korea
Director JUNG Jaehoon
Producer KO Yoohee
Writer KANG Yoojin, KO Yoohee, KIM Siyeon(pseudonym), VLADLENA Natasha, SIM Daha, YANG Gyuri, YANG Hyori, LEE Saena, LEE Hyun-bin, IM Cheolmin, JUNG Jae-hoon, JUNG Eunsuk(pseudonym), CHO Hyunchul, CHOI Yeonjin, HAN Seohwa
Production Company WALKING AHA
Format DCP | Color | 146min
Genre Teenage Fantasy Documentary

Synopsis

Around ten teenagers live in a world where anyone can be whoever they want and create any story they wish. Amidst the pitch-black night of Lisan City, Alstroemeria Forest, and Ashua Island, their imagined stories flow through myriad choices, seeking out faint glimmers of light.

Director

JUNG Jaehoon

Born in 1986 in Seoul, Korea. He has made non-fiction/fiction films with cinematic genre and sense; Hosu-gil (2009), Hurrahh! (2011), Tenderly (2013), Turbulence at Dodoli Hill (2017), and Trans-Continental-Railway (2021). Those films have been invited to Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, Jeonju International Film Festival, Cinema Digital Seoul (CinDi), Experimental Film & Video Festival in Seoul (Exis), Seoul Independent Film Festival, and more.

Producer

KO Yoohee

Born in 1987 in Tokyo and raised in Jeju and Seoul. She studied the history and aesthetics of cinema and documentary in the context of contemporaneity in Yonsei graduate school.
She produced a feature documentary film KIM-GUN (2018) started from a photo taken in 1980 in Gwangju Uprising and Dear Jinri (2023) portraying a talented and influential young K-pop artist/actress as a person in the Netflix series Persona: Sulli (2023). She is a founder of independent film production WALKING AHA based in Seoul.

Production Company

WALKING AHA

WALKING AHA, founded in early 2018 in Seoul, aims to explore new cinematic figures and senses with contemporary perceptions. Esper’s Light, following the teenagers in South Korea, is the first project of WALKING AHA.