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Okja

Bong Joon Ho, Okja, 2017. Photo courtesy Netflix.

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Tilda Swinton plays powerful CEO Lucy Mirando, righting the wrongs of her industrialist father to produce new food for a new era, the ultimate super pig. Okja is one of these creatures—engineered to solve humanity’s food shortage and environmental crisis. The gentle, hippo-like beast is raised in the mountains of South Korea by a young girl, who is blissfully unaware of the Mirando corporation’s evil designs. But the Mirando corporation is just as unaware of the extreme passion the girl has for Okja and the lengths she will go to protect her. Bong Joon Ho’s global sci-fi story uses spectacular digital effects and puppet animation to portray the desperate struggle of girl and beast to survive against the all-powerful corporation. 2017, South Korea, DCP, in English and Korean with English subtitles, 120 min.

Tickets available beginning November 12 at 11 am.

The Walker’s Dialogue and Retrospective program is made possible by generous support from Anita Kunin and the Kunin Family.

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