North American Premiere!

Accompanied by a sweeping classical score, scrambling North Koreans attempt an escape to the South at various border points. A woman vomits unceremoniously on the side of a highway. And so begins Jeon Kyu-hwan's striking and final installment of his internationally acclaimed Town trilogy. Jung-rim was a professional table tennis player in North Korea, happily married to a husband whose tender affections prompted him to smuggle in gifts from “outside,” like expensive skin creams and South Korean adult videos. When a neighbor rats on the couple, Jung-rim must flee to South Korea, alone, where a new and wholly strange life awaits her (as do even stranger, more inquisitive neighbors). A strikingly effective and dark political allegory, imbued with complex psychologies and executed with startling sound design and cinematography, Dance Town shares a kindred spirit with the allegories of Lars von Trier, and dissects everything from the family unit to hyper-consumerist youth culture.