74SSIFF - 18/26 September 2026
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The World Before

Yoon Dan-bi
South Korea - Japan - France      115 m.
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Seventeen-year-old Jin has never left the island where she was born—a place with no road to the mainland, where the sea quietly sets the rhythm of everyday life. When Dujae returns for his grandmother's funeral, he stays alone in the house she left behind. Jin begins finding small excuses to visit him, and little by little, seeing him becomes part of her everyday life. As summer wears on, the island she has always known begins to feel unfamiliar—the roads, the sea, the faces around her, all subtly transformed. Jin finds herself looking at it, and at herself, for the first time. But summer, like everything else on the island, will not stay.

Director
Yoon Dan-bi (South Korea)
Screenplay
Yoon Dan-bi
Production
Cheonggwa (South Korea)
Yoon Dan-bi
Co-Production
Humanite Co., Ltd. (Japan)
Song Young-shin
Comme des Cinémas (France)
Masa Sawada
Sales
m-appeal world sales (Germany)
Photography
Lee Seong-eun
Editing
Won Chang-jae
Music
Lee Min-hwi
Sound
Kim Won
Cast
Sim Su-bin, Kim Eo-jin
Format
DCP
Run time
115 m.
Original language of the film
Korean
Country
South Korea - Japan - France
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