South Korea/2022—directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda | 129 minutes

Five years after winning the Cannes Film Festival’s highest award for Shoplifters (DFT 2017), the Oscar® nominated Hirokazu Kore-eda returns with Broker, the tale of two men who – under the radar of the legal system – accept custody of unwanted infants which they then sell to affluent childless couples.

Circumventing the bureaucracy – and accountability – of legal adoption, these “brokers” try in their limited way to act morally by matching the children with responsible families. But after one infant’s mother surprises the duo by demanding to supervise her baby’s placement, the three unlikely partners embark on a search for the perfect couple, while unintentionally building an unlikely “family” of their own. Thoughtful, powerful, surprisingly witty, and deeply, generously humane, Broker is the gift of a master storyteller at the height of his powers.

Parasite’s Song Kang Ho won the Best Actor Prize at Cannes for Broker, the first South Korean actor to receive the honor. In Korean with English subtitles.

“Five Stars! Big-hearted and directed with impeccable skill, delicacy and compassion as secret motives are revealed, sympathies shift, and dangers multiply.” – Nicholas Barber, BBC Culture