2026 Jeonju International Film Festival Closing Film Teaser Poster for “Namtaeryeong” Released & Set for May Release!

A record of a new kind of solidarity crafted as border-region “Twitterians” cross back and forth between the field and the double plaza of X (Twitter). Confirming its release in May, the digital native reality archive 〈Namtaeryeong〉 has unveiled a teaser poster.

The released teaser poster captures the scene of Namtaeryeong Square, packed with crowds between the flags, immediately drawing attention. Countless flags gathered together to form, at last, a unified procession—this image symbolizes that the solidarity of Namtaeryeong was not created by any single heroic action by one person, but rather by the accumulation of innumerable hands that supported one another. The warm yellow light enveloping the poster and the colorful blaze of illumination capture the warmth that once lit up the plaza, and the added tagline, “The place where you crossed the longest night and met the morning first,” recalls the moment when, on the longest night of winter solstice, people who gathered from many places around Namtaeryeong Pass made their body heat into a lantern.

Meanwhile, after news of the screening of 〈Namtaeryeong〉 was released, yet another topic took off on social media—the “original self” showcase of the 2030 digital native generation at the center of Namtaeryeong. From ordinary young female farmer to “Hyang-yeon” (Kim Hu-joo), reborn as none other than “Human Namtaeryeong” itself; “Organism Uncle” (Hwang Seung-yoo), a queer feminist labor worker who came up from South Gyeongsang Province; the “Introvert’s Flag” flag-bearer, met from rock bar to the plaza as a fellow citizen; and even the operator of the civic journalism newspaper “Estelle News Account.” Driven by a desire to revive democracy in everyday life, 〈Namtaeryeong〉 brings together an eye-opening collection of 28 hours—compiled from scattered retweets that broke open the dawn—into the first documentary that will take on that day’s “Namtaeryeong” head-on.

Storytelling from the digital native leads in the place where you crossed the longest night and met the morning first, 〈Namtaeryeong〉, is set to make its first appearance as the closing film of the 27th Jeonju International Film Festival on May 8, and will be released the following month. Ticket reservations will be available starting at 2:00 PM on Wednesday, the 15th, via the Jeonju International Film Festival website.