The long road to escaping North Korea is marked with peril — threats of death and deportation, living as a refugee, finding oneself without a home. In My Name Is Loh Kiwan,a defector is desperate for survival when he meets a former professional athlete who’s lost her will to live. The drama film delves into the pair’s unlikely bond amidst near-impossible challenges. Kim Hee-jin’s feature directorial debut stars Song Joong-ki, Choi Sung-eun, and Cho Han-cheul.

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Thirtysomething Kiwan (Song) defected from North Korea in 2019 with his mother. They make it to China, where defectors are harshly criminalized. When the police come looking for Kiwan, he ends up being brutally separated from his mother. Eventually, Kiwan escapes China and ends up in Brussels — a place wholly unfamiliar to him — where he becomes homeless and struggles to stay...