Korean Competition for Shorts

Grade Apeals

KIM Geon
Korea 2023 33min DCP Color Fiction GWorld Premiere

Schedule

CGV Jeonjugosa 6

Date

2024. 05. 03

Time

14:00

Code

225
H
KE
15
CGV Jeonjugosa 6

Date

2024. 05. 04

Time

17:30

Code

345
H
KE
15
GV
CGV Jeonjugosa 6

Date

2024. 05. 05

Time

10:30

Code

406
H
KE
15
GV
MEGABOX Jeonju Gaeksa 3

Date

2024. 05. 09

Time

20:30

Code

841
H
KE
15

Overview

There is a student who cannot accept her grades. She cancels plans with friends and waits for the professor.

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Review

Grade Apeals diligently shapes out the three-dimensional curves of a situation. In short, the story is about a very strongly motivated student who goes to a professor to change their grade, just as the title suggests. The moments of highs and lows on the way toward the ending are structured to create unique tension. We learn two answers through this process. First, changing something isn’t as easy as one thinks. Second, even if something isn’t changed, whether this can truly be called a “correction” is an entirely different problem. What does it mean for something to be “corrected”? The fact that this film, which is shaped by external triggers and throbs with life, exists within a sea of incredibly refined and almost fake-looking films will be exciting for moviegoers. (LEE Bora)

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Credit

  • DirectorKIM Geon
  • ProducerPARK Kyuhoon
  • ScreenplayKIM Geon
  • CinematographyHWANG Woohyun
  • GafferPARK Cheonhee
  • Production DesignLEE Gaeun
  • SoundMichael KIM
  • CastKO Kyungseo, KIM Dongwook, PARK Gaeun, JO Hyein

Film Source

KIM Geon⎜cllin@hanmail.net

Director

KIM Geon

Born in Korea, 1976. He directed short film Coincidence (2002), Pig and Shakespeare (2007).