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A block of independent artists and short films, as well as film-history curiosities. In 2023, the section offers five captivating short films, including an animation, and whose ideas are sure to be remembered.
Selection of Short Movies
1. Stop and Go / 스탑 앤 고
A broken pedestrian traffic-light in the city. Inside the pedestrian traffic-light machine, there live two small people working day and night. Stop and Go. Stop wears a red jacket and Go wears a green one. For their entire lives, they have been working inside the traffic light making postures. Stop stands still and Go pretends to walk. All day long. As the traffic-light becomes broken, for the first time in their lives, Stop and Go gets to sit down and rest, and talk about their life and dreams.
Director:
Jun-yong Kim
Cast:
Sang-hyeon Park
Joon Kang
2021
19 minutes
English and Hungarian subtitles
2. Three Friends in Substructure / 하부구조의 친구들
Three friends attend the same university, but their ideas about the society we live in differ. One morning, they find themselves in a strange situation, spinning around an open manhole.
Director:
Se-hyung Lee
Cast:
Yo-hoon Jang
Seul-ah Kwon
Seung-chan Kim
2023
25 minutes
English and Hungarian subtitles
3. The Lee Families / 이씨 가문의 형제
A country house, the only inheritance left by the grandfather of a family, is bequeathed to the eldest grandson. However, the mother cannot just stand by and let that happen.
Director:
Jeong-mi Seo
Cast:
Ae-hwa Jeong
Yoon-ji Cho
Joo-hyup Lee
2023
25 minutes
English and Hungarian subtitles
4. Persona / 각질
This animation explorers the process of being encroached by the ‘persona’. A naked woman in a bathroom. In front of the mirror, persona and self become enmeshed, mangled, until one takes over, annihilating the other.
Director:
Su-jin Moon
2022
Animation
5 minutes
5. Yours Truly / 재희에게
Jungnam, recently hospitalized, meets Yeonsu, who it turns out likes the same kinds of drama as him. The two are thrown out of the hospital ward because of an argument which breaks out over TV show channels, but continue to develop a friendship while watching a drama in the lounge together.
Director:
Ji-woo Lee
Cast:
Ja-young Kim
Yoon-ji Cho
Yoon-young Park
2023
25 minutes
English and Hungarian subtitles
SCREENING
Budapest, Corvin Mozi | 10/19/2023, 20:30 | Booking |