Snow Leopard Competition

The Glassworker

شیشہ گر

Pakistan’s Submission for the 97th Academy Awards®

Followed by Q&A w/ Director

Synopsis:

A young Vincent and his father Tomas run the finest glass workshop in the country and find their lives upended by an impending war in which they want no part. The arrival in their town of an army colonel and his young, talented, violinist daughter, Alliz, shakes their reality and tests the relationship between father and son. As the love develops between Vincent and Alliz, they will need to gather up their courage to confront their fathers.

Schedule

Nov 15, 2024 @ 06:15 PM

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Director

Usman Riaz

Kim Sung-soo (Seoul, 1961) is a screenwriter and film director who studied at the Korea National University of Arts (K-Arts), where he majored in film. He quickly made it into the Korean film industry by directing his first feature films. His first, Run Away (1995), was inspired by one of his previous short films Dead End (1993). In his debut he already introduced the noir genre in Korean cinema, both with Beat (1997) and City of the Rising Sun (1998),two blockbusters that portray hopeless youth. Later, he directed Virus (2013) and Asura: The City of Madness (2016). 12.12: The Day (2023) emerges from a personal experience. At the age of 19, on the night of December 12, 1979, Kim Sung-soo heard gunshots from his home in Hannam-dong, Seoul. This film chronicles how the life of a country changed as a result of the military insurrection of December 12, 1979 and the dictatorship it instituted until 1993.