Jina (Gong Seung-yeon) is the top employee at a call center, but despite talking to customers all day, she has shut out the world beyond her headset; she lives alone, eats alone, sleeps alone, and her cell phone is her constant companion. When one day, she’s tasked with training a friendly and naive new hire (Jung Da-eun), her icy armor is threatened. At the same time, she must navigate an incessantly ingratiating new neighbor, and increasingly urgent phone calls from her father, leaving Jina teetering on the edge of an existential crisis, forcing her to confront why she has isolated herself all these years.
Riffing on the Korean ‘honjok’ – a phenomenon of young people who live alone and skirt social interaction – to examine the personal traumas of loss and alienation, Aloners is a “stirring portrait of the cages we build for ourselves and questions how and when we may want to be free of them,” (Ms. Magazine).
A New York Times Critic’s Pick and Certified Fresh at Rotten Tomatoes with a 98% score, ALONERS also captured critical acclaim at festivals around the globe, including capturing the NETPAC Award for Best Asian Film at the 2021 Golden Horse Film Festival and the Jury Award for Best Film at the CinemAsia Film Festival in 2022. Additionally, Gong Seung-Yeon was nominated for Best Newcomer at the 2021 Asian Film Awards and won the Best Actress Award at the 2021 Torino Film Festival.
BONUS FEATURE
- Bonus Short Film — The Moths Will Eat Them Up (Directed by Luisa Martiri and Tanya Modini | Australia | 14 minutes) — A woman’s normal train ride home at night turns into a terrifying game of cat and mouse with a stranger until an unforeseen force emerges.
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Aloners arrives on Digital/DVD on August 11, 2023
