Silenced

This screening forms part of Preston Sejong Institute's first Korean film festival. This year's festival pays homage to Squid Game director Hwang Dong-hyuk and includes two of his earlier titles. Silenced (2011), is based on a real scandal that took place at the Gwangju Inhwa School for the hearing impaired in the early 2000s. Directed by Hwang Dong-hyuk, the film follows Kang In-ho (Gong Yoo), a new teacher at Gwangju Inhwa who discovers that faculty members are repeatedly abusing their deaf students. The film is a powerful reminder of our unfair bias towards authority figures and the danger of failing to act.