Seire
May 19, 2023
The Korean horror film Seire will debut on digital and VOD June 16 from Film Movement.
In Korean folk traditions, “seire” is the 21 days after a baby is born in which they’re uniquely vulnerable to bad luck, curses — even evil spirits. Many superstitions surround these first three weeks in a baby’s life, and, in Seire new mother Hae-mi carefully follows every one of them. Father Woo-jin is reluctantly willing to play along, but when he attends an ex-girlfriend’s funeral, he unwittingly opens the door to dark supernatural dangers. Plagued by terrible nightmares, the skeptical Woo-jin gradually begins to understand the seire custom, as he is forced to unravel the mystery of what is haunting him and his family.
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Seire, writer-director Park Kang’s horror film debut, was an Official Selection in the Fantasia New Flesh Competition, was nominated for Best Film and captured the New Currents FIPRESCI Prize at the Busan International Film Festival, and received a nomination for a Golden Eye Best International Feature at the 2022 Zurich Film Festival.