The?23rd JEONJU IFF will screen director LEE Chang-dong’s newest shortfilm,? Heartbeat?(2022)!?

Eight-year-old? Chul runs home during class because he is afraid that his mother, who is suffering from depression, might kill herself while she is alone at home.

Deliveryman Jongsu is out on a job when he runs into Haemi, a girl who once lived in his neighborhood. She asks if he’d mind looking after her cat while she’s away on a trip to Africa. On her return she introduces to Jongsu an enigmatic young man named Ben, who she met during her trip. And one day Ben tells Jongsu about his most unusual hobby...

Mija lives with her middle-schooler? grandson in a small suburban city located along the Han River. By chance, she takes a “poetry” class at a local community center and is challenged to write a poem for the first time in her life. She tries to discover beauty in her everyday life, but she learns the world is not that beautiful when she encounters an urgent incident.

Following her husband’s death, Shin-ae and her son move to the late husband’shometown. Helping her out is Jong-chan, a good-intentioned but bothersome car mechanic. Her fate again takes avicious turn when she loses her son. As her search for comfort in Christianity comes with no result, she wages a war against God.

Jong- du, who has three previous convictions, pays a visit to the family of the victim in the hit-and-run accident for which he served time and meets Gong-ju, the victim’s daughter, who has cerebral palsy. Jong-du is fascinated by her at first sight and visits her again when he knows she is alone. Over a series of clandestinemeetings, the handicapped young woman and the feckless young man come to fall in love with each other. However, their love is not the one that is understood by anyone else.

Spring in 1999. A group of middle-aged working- class friends meets for the 20th year reunion of their old factory worker’s association. While they sing and dance up a storm, their long-lost friend Yongho shows up, disrupting the party. He climbs on top of a railroad track and refuses to budge despite the danger of an approaching train. When he shouts, “I am going back,” time runs forward as the train goes back.

Mak-dong comes across Mi- ae, the girlfriend of gang boss Tae-gon, and gets a job as a parking attendant through her. Soon Mak-dong is admitted as a full-fledged member of the gang. When Tae-gon’s former boss Yang-gil arrives on the scene, however, Mak- dong has to make a final commitment by getting rid of him.