Directed by:
Bora KimScreenplay:
Bora KimCinematography:
Kook-Hyun KangComposer:
Matija StrnišaCast:
Ji-hoo Park, Sae-byeok Kim, In-gi Jung, Seung-yeon Lee, Sang-yeon Son, Soo-yeon Park, Min-young AhnPlots(1)
Korea, 1994. The South is in the grips of FIFA World Cup fever, while the North mourns its newly deceased dictator. Eunhee registers all of this only in passing. Drifting through her days in Seoul, the eighth-grader feels like an outsider everywhere: at school, where her classmates bore her even more than the schoolwork, and at home, where her parents are always at each other's throats and her brother beats her. She tries to fall in love, has to go to hospital after an inconclusive biopsy, and has a falling-out with her best friend – yet nothing moves her with the same unexpected intensity as when a new Chinese tutor enters her life. With visual precision, Kim Bo-ra weaves a dense narrative around a regular summer that leaves nothing unchanged. (Berlinale)
(more)Cast
Ji-hoo Park
South Korea
Best movies:
Little Women (2022) (series)
House of Hummingbird (2018)
Vanishing Time: A Boy Who Returned (2016)
Sae-byeok Kim
South Korea
Best movies:
Sunny (2011)
House of Hummingbird (2018)
Tazza: The Hidden Card (2014)
In-gi Jung
South Korea
Best movies:
Dawn (2010) (series)
Crossing (2008)
Secret Garden (2010) (series)
Seung-yeon Lee
South Korea
Best movies:
Wedding Dress (2010)
SKY Castle (2018) (series)
Miracle in Cell No. 7 (2013)
Sang-yeon Son
South Korea
Best movies:
Chicago Typewriter (2017) (series)
Suspicious Partner (2017) (series)
House of Hummingbird (2018)
Soo-yeon Park
South Korea
Best movies:
House of Hummingbird (2018)
Min-young Ahn
South Korea
Best movies:
The Net (2016)
House of Hummingbird (2018)
Asura: The City of Madness (2016)