Korean Competition

Sister Yujeong

CHUNG Haeil
Korea 2024 102min DCP Color Fiction 12World Premiere

Schedule

MEGABOX Jeonju Gaeksa 3

Date

2024. 05. 03

Time

10:00

Code

211
K
E
12
GV
MEGABOX Jeonju Gaeksa 3

Date

2024. 05. 05

Time

17:00

Code

446
K
E
12
GV
MEGABOX Jeonju Gaeksa 1

Date

2024. 05. 07

Time

17:30

Code

637
K
E
12

Overview

Yujeong, who works as a night shift nurse at a general hospital's cardiology department, is now told that her 12th-grade younger sister, Kijeong, has been arrested by the police as a suspect in an infant abandonment case. Only then does Yujeong start to make desperate efforts to rescue her sister.

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Review

Sister Yujeong questions the nature of family, with prominent mystery drama elements. It attempts to look into its core by dissecting family relationships with a delicate scalpel, rather than glossing it over. Yujeong and her younger sister, Kijeong, had a relationship akin to that of mother-and-daughter. Their mother died when Kijeong was born, so Yujeong gave her motherly love. However, as time passes, Kijeong grows up, Yujeong becomes busy, and their relationship becomes distant. Moreover, when Kijeong confesses that she has abandoned an infant she gave birth to, their relationship is put to the ultimate test. Yujeong, who thought she knew her sister well, finds herself in a burden of self-reproach. Yujeong’s efforts to find out the reason for Kijeong’s infant abandonment is the process of discovering who her sister really is, and of thinking seriously about her relationship with her for the first time. Sister Yujeong has a great sense of plot structure, most notably in Yujeong’s relationship with a pregnant patient. (MOON Seok)

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Credit

  • DirectorCHUNG Haeil
  • ProducerKANG Gami
  • ScreenplayCHUNG Haeil
  • CinematographyLEE Seongeun
  • GafferPARK Sangwook
  • Production DesignKIM Jinyoung
  • MusicPARK Eunji
  • EditorCHOI Hyeonsuk
  • SoundCHO Minho
  • CastPARK Yeyoung, LEE Haeun, KIM Yikyeong, LEE Changhun, PARK Jonghwan, HAN Haein

Film Source

CHUNG Haeil⎜haeil0224@gmail.com

Director

CHUNG Haeil

He is a PhD candidate in Filmmaking at Chung-Ang University. He has made several short films, and his short Capsule Coffee (2018) was invited to the 19th JEONJU IFF, and his short Jooyoung in Wonderland (2022) was invited to the 27th BUSAN IFF. Sister Yujeong is his debut feature film.