Hirozaku Koreeda’s Broker, a Korean movie, has won the Ecumenical Jury Award for the Best Film at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival.
Broker features Parasite fame Song Kang-ho, who, along with his partner Gang Dong-won, attempts to find a new family for a baby after he discovers the unattended infant in the “baby box” of a Busan Family Church, presumably abandoned by a desperate mother.
Broker marks the director’s first foray into Korean cinema after winning Cannes’ top prize, the Palme d’Or, with Shoplifters in 2018.
The Ecumenical Jury comprises members of Christian film organizations Interfilm (Protestant) and Signis (Catholic). The winning movie is selected by the Jury if it “best touches the spiritual dimension of our existence.”
The jury praised the film saying, “The film shows, in an intimate way, how family can be family without blood ties”.
Despite the many varied traumatic origins, lives and souls are being preserved by a secure environment formed by the three adults and an orphan boy around the infant.
The Ecumenical Jury Award
The jury has been awarding movies since 1974 and has a remarkable track record in selecting movies that would further win top honors in other prestigious award ceremonies.
Ryuzuke Hamaguchi’s Drive My Car was awarded the Best Script at Cannes by the Ecumenical Jury last year. The movie later went on to win the Best International Film at the 2021 Oscars.
About Broker
Broker is an upcoming South Korean movie starring Song Kang-ho, Gang Dong-won, and Lee Ji-eun (IU).
The movie revolves around Sang-hyeon (Song Kang-ho) and his friend Dong-soo (Gang Dong-won) who discover an abandoned infant in a church’s baby box and attempt to find a new family for it. However, things take turn for the worse when the mother (Lee Ji-eun) returns for her baby.
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