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Korean Competition for Shorts

Aurora

PARK Hyeong-jin

Korea 2023 31min DCP Color Fiction 12World Premiere

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Schedule

Code	Date	Time	Theater	Info	Ticket
107	2023. 04. 28	10:30	CGV Jeonjugosa 6	KE12GV	Ticket Wish
308	2023. 04. 30	14:00	CGV Jeonjugosa 6	KE12GV	Ticket Wish
516	2023. 05. 02	13:30	CGV Jeonjugosa 6	KE12	Ticket Wish
932	2023. 05. 06	17:00	CGV Jeonjugosa 6	KE12	Ticket Wish

Overview

Nina works as a multi-level marketer to raise medical expenses for her mother's surgery. On the day she quits the job, she sees an aurora shining in her place. The next day, she bumps into siblings who ask for a refund for a multi-level item on the way to pay for her mother's hospital bills.

Review

This film unfolds from a worker's perspective in a multilevel marketing scheme. She has reasons for being in this business, so she cannot easily drop it. More importantly, the reality this film depicts does not have perfect villains. All the trickery, fraud, and lies are coincidental consequences of each of their stories colliding. This film quietly gazes at the moment of distortion where the trouble of others that previously seemed distant and irrelevant suddenly arrives in your present. While the title, Aurora, is ironic in the face of the reality that cannot be as dazzling, this film makes you gladly look into the spectacle. (KIM Yesolbi)

CREDIT

DirectorPARK Hyeong-jin
ProducerCHOI Jeong-min
ScreenplayLEE Sang-jin
CinematographyLEE Yun-gyu

GafferLEE Yun-gyu
Production DesignJO Yul-min
EditorWON Chang-jae
SoundHAN Ji-yeong, HONG Seong-jun

CastKIM Ni-na, KIM Su-hui, YUN Seong-uk

FILM SOURCE

INDIESTORY Inc. ㅣ shorts@indiestory.com

DIRECTOR

PARK Hyeong-jin

Born in 1997. He had field experience, instead of a film educational background. He is participating in most of the indie film productions based on Changwon.

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