Decision To Leave

Part of: YFP: Electric Hearts | Chester International Film Festival 2025 (CIFF25)

Directed by Park Chan-wook
Starring Tang Wei, Go Kyung-Pyo, Park Hae-il

From legendary director Park Chan-wook (Oldboy, The Handmaiden) comes a Hitchcock story which Hitchcock never could’ve told. Following a relationship between a detective and his suspect, which leads both down a thrilling path of forbidden intimacy, Decision to Leave uses the advancements of the smartphone age – GPS, messaging apps, voice memos, machine translation and more – in combination with cutting-edge CGI and effects to craft its twisted love story. Understood through the protagonists’ relationships with the technology around them as much as their relationships with each other, Decision to Leave is one of the defining films of the digital age.