"Adventure, action, romance, horror and comedy of the darkest kind … worth seeing for its thrills, scrupulous tension-building and mischievous genre twists that will have you gasping one second, and laughing the next." – Indiewire

Desperate to pull himself out of debt, world-weary cargo ship captain Kang (Kim Yun-seok, as mesmerising here as he was in MIFF 2011 film The Yellow Sea) decides to take on one last project: smuggling a boatload of ethnic Koreans fleeing persecution in China. It seems like easy money, but with a storm rolling in and tensions riding high, it's only a matter of time until catastrophe threatens to push Kang and his crew over the precipice of their own humanity.

Produced and co-written by prodigal Korean talent Bong Joon-ho (Snowpiercer) and helmed by first-timer Shim Sung-bo, Haemoo ("sea fog" in Korean) is a pulsating, claustrophobic journey into a darkness both literal and metaphorical. Based on a real-life incident in 2001, Haemoo is a debut of rare confidence: whip-crack smart, ravishingly shot and definitely not for the faint of heart.