Concrete Utopia

Concrete Utopia (콘크리트 유토피아, 2023) is a South Korean post-apocalyptic thriller you can watch online on iFILM. Director Um Tae-hwa examines what ordinary people are willing to do when a single apartment block becomes the last functioning shelter in a destroyed city.

Seoul is gone — levelled by an earthquake. One building, Hwang Gung Apartments, is still standing. Survivors pour in from the ruins, and the residents face a choice: share what little they have, or lock out everyone who doesn't belong. They vote. They elect a leader named Yeong-tak. They form supply teams and security patrols. A working society in nine floors. The rules keep everyone alive. The rules also keep changing.

Lee Byung-hun plays Yeong-tak with coiled authority; Park Seo-joon and Park Bo-young are the couple trying to stay decent as the building's internal logic grows darker. South Korea submitted the film as its Oscar entry for Best International Feature Film. Stream Concrete Utopia (2023) online on iFILM.