New - Evokative Films in Canada

Evokative Films is happy to announce the theatrical release of the South-Korean dark fantasy HANSEL & GRETEL in Toronto from March 27th. The film will be screening at the AMC Yonge & Dundas in Korean with English subtitles. The film will then follow with screenings in Vancouver.

Written and directed by YIM Phil-Sung (ANTARTIC JOURNAL), the films stars CHEON Jeong-myeong and the young actors SIM Eun-kyung, JANG Yeong-Nam and JIN Ji-hee. A stellar crew contributed to the film, including Production Designer RYU Seong-hie (THE HOST, A BITTERSWEET LIFE, OLDBOY, MEMORIES OF MURDER), Cinematographer KIM Ji-yong (A BITTERSWEET LIFE) and Composer LEE Byung-woo (THE HOST, A TALE OF TWO SISTERS).

When Eun-soo crashes his car on a country road, he meets a young girl who leads him to her beautiful house in the middle of the forest, where he is welcomed by her parents and two young siblings, who appear to be the picture of the perfect family. The morning after, when he tries to get back to his car, the forest seems never-ending and inevitably leads back to the house. Soon Eun-soo realizes he’s trapped in the kids’ gloomy fairy-tale alternate reality, a world no other adult has managed to escape alive before him.

HANSEL & GRETEL got attention on the International film festival circuit after being winning a Special Mention at the Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival (Pifan) and more recently winning the Best Film Award of the Orient Express section, as well as a Special Prize in the Fantasy Competition of the Fantasporto International Film Festival. The film also played at the London Film Festival and the Gerardmer Fantastic Film Festival. In Canada, HANSEL & GRETEL had the honour of being chosen as the Closing Film of the Dragons and Tigers section at the Vancouver International Film Festival, to follow with the Toronto Reel Asian Film Festival.

Evokative Film’s next theatrical release will be of the Japanese walking road-movie comedy ADRIFT IN TOKYO, by Satoshi Miki. Starting in Montreal at the AMC Forum theatre on April 10th, the film will then play in Toronto at the AMC Yonge & Dundas from May 1st.