The Korea Times
This year’s Jeonju International Film Festival, set to run from April 29 to May 8, will shine a spotlight on films dealing with 2024’s martial law declaration, an event that plunged Korea into its deepest constitutional crisis in decades. The festival named "The Longest Night: Namtaeryeong" as its closing film, a documentary by director Kim Hyun-ji, who previously earned widespread praise for "A Man Who Heals the City” (2023). The festival's program notes introduce the film with a striking line — "A year has passed since a madman's scheme was foiled." The reference is to President Yoon Suk Yeol’s surprise declaration of martial law on the night of Dec. 3, 2024, when armed soldiers entered the National Assembly grounds in an attempted insurrection. The crisis was nullified within around six hours after lawmakers convened an emergency session and voted to lift the decree. "Namtaeryeong" focuses not on that night itself but on events two weeks later, on Dec. 21, when protesters made their stand near Namtaeryeong in southern Seoul. Moon Seok, programmer of the film festival, said a
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