Kani Releasing has released the trailer for The Fin, Park Syeyoung’s (The Fifth Thoracic Vertebra) dystopian science fiction feature, ahead of the film’s limited theatrical release. The film will kick off its North American rollout this month, with Park in person for screenings at Roxy Cinema New York on November 27 and November 29 and at Toronto’s Revue Cinema on December 1, and a video-on-demand release will follow in January.

The film is set in a dystopian post-war “United Korea” where mutated mermen called Omegas are society’s outcasts; exploited as cheap labor in an ecologically decimated, water-poor landscape. As one of these pariahs dies, he tasks a cohort (Goh-woo) with finding his daughter Mia (Yeon Yeji) hiding among humans, intent on her receiving his fin in a rite of passing. Meanwhile, Sujin (Kim Pureum), a young civil servant, begins doubting the state’s ideology as she pursues the Omega for her own purposes.

Co-produced by Coproduction Office, The Fin marks the first collaboration between director Park and Philippe Bober’s company, best known for Ruben Östlund’s Palme d’Or winners Triangle of Sadness and The Square, as well as for championing and producing a generation of arthouse talents, including the films of Ulrich Seidl (the Paradise trilogy), Lars Von Trier (Europa), Michelangelo Frammartino (Il Buco), Roy Andersson (A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence), Jessica Hausner (Little Joe), Lou Ye (Suzhou River), and more.