A young man returns to his hometown, a coastal town in decline, boasting of his success in the big city. However, the film gradually reveals that he is just another evicted person, on a par with the rest of his ruined family and his old friends, the latter of whom are doomed to the most pitiful economic hardship. As in other great films from Southeast Asia that FILMADRID has been fortunate enough to show, Ohong Village - previously screened successfully at the Jeonju and Torino film festivals - is a careful study of the scars caused by unbridled capitalism in rural areas, but also of the consequences of so-called progress on the younger generations, who find no place in either the new order or the old traditions. Using subjugating images, with a fragile format but undeniable aesthetic power, Lim Lunying makes an epic and intimate debut feature, in which documentary and fiction go hand in hand, and where the bitter vision of the present gives way to a hopeful expectation of tomorrow. In the spectacularity of its forms and the minimalism of its plot, Ohong Village announces not only a filmmaker with a formidable creative pulse, but also a filmmaker with a deep humanist spirit. GABRIEL DOMÉNECH