Park Syeyoung’s Locarno-Premiering Korean Dystopian Sci-Fi ‘The Fin’ Acquired by Kani Releasing for North America (EXCLUSIVE)

By Naman Ramachandran

Naman Ramachandran

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Kani Releasing has picked up North American rights to Park Syeyoung‘s “The Fin” from Coproduction Office, with plans for both theatrical and home video release in 2026.

The film unfolds in a speculative future where the Korean peninsula has been reunified following a war, only to find itself environmentally gutted. In this world, a subspecies of mutated mermen known as Omegas are relegated to the lowest rungs of a water-starved society, pressed into menial labor and denied basic rights. The story is set in motion when a dying Omega asks a companion to seek out his daughter Mia, who has concealed her identity among the human population, so she can inherit his fin through a sacred rite. Running parallel is the arc of Sujin, a government worker portrayed by Kim Pureum, whose certainty in the ruling order begins to fracture as she hunts the Omega for reasons of her own.

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