Korean Competition for Shorts

Significant findings about separation and some subsequent anxieties

JEON Chanwoo
Korea 2024 20min DCP B&W Fiction 12World Premiere

Schedule

CGV Jeonjugosa 6

Date

2024. 05. 03

Time

21:00

Code

262
K
E
15
CGV Jeonjugosa 6

Date

2024. 05. 04

Time

10:30

Code

307
K
E
15
GV
CGV Jeonjugosa 6

Date

2024. 05. 05

Time

21:00

Code

459
K
E
15
GV
MEGABOX Jeonju Gaeksa 3

Date

2024. 05. 09

Time

17:00

Code

830
K
E
15

Overview

As a man finds out his lover is pregnant, a random boy comes to their house, asking them to fix his television. While the man silently fixes the boy’s television, the woman calls the police. Late at night, the boy’s mother comes to the lovers’ house. The lovers talk about each other, and the boy and the mother talk about the television they left behind.

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Review

Films are usually born from darkness. With wit, some films reconstruct what are, at most, a blackout wall with a flat screen into an "open door". Many signs of deliberation show how Significant findings about separation and some subsequent anxieties has clearly tried to test this mysterious place of power that films find themselves in. A young couple who handles an unwanted pregnancy, a boy who turns up at this couple’s house out of the blue, and his mother who searches for him. Through their anxieties, the film expertly connects and cherishes the beautiful moments that unexpectedly come to being. (LEE Bora)

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Credit

  • DirectorJEON Chanwoo
  • ProducerKIM Minji
  • ScreenplayJEON Chanwoo
  • CinematographyKIM Beomsu
  • GafferYOON Seol
  • Production DesignYOO Inseon
  • EditorJEON Chanwoo
  • SoundCHOI Donghui
  • CastLEE Dahye, MOON Soung, NOH Geonu, KANG Bogyu

Film Source

JEON Chanwoo⎜asdz444@naver.com

Director

JEON Chanwoo

He directed several films, including his most well-known work, Present (2022). He won the Audience Award of the Persons with Disabilities Film Festival(PDFF).