The movie "Baby Broker" produced by Hirokazu Koreeda in Korea was nominated for the competition category to compete for the highest award at the Cannes Film Festival, one of the world's three major film festivals that will open in France in May. rice field.
The Cannes Film Festival, which is celebrating its 75th anniversary, is one of the world's three major film festivals alongside Venezia and Berlin, and on the 14th, nominated films from major categories were announced.
Among them, the first movie "Baby Broker" produced in Korea by director Hirokazu Koreeda was nominated for the competition category to compete for the highest award Palme d'Or.
This work is set in South Korea, and the men who tried to take away the child entrusted to the so-called "baby post", which anonymously accepts the baby whose parents cannot be raised, were found by the mother of the baby who returned after thinking about it. The story is about going on a journey to find someone to be a parent for raising.
Korean actors such as Song Kang-Ho, who starred in "Parasite Semi-Underground Family," will appear and will be released in Japan in June.
This is the sixth time that Koreeda's work has been nominated for the Cannes Film Festival's competition category for the first time in four years since the Palme d'Or award-winning Shoplifters.
Director Koreeda said about the nomination, "I immediately contacted the Korean staff and the cast and said congratulations and thank you. I hope to visit the Cannes Film Festival with as many staff and cast as possible. I will. "
The Cannes Film Festival will be held from May 17th to 28th, local time.