Kim Ho-jeong Movies

A Korean teen attempts to balance his troubled personal life with his raging hormones in Kim Ki-Duk protégé Cho Chang-ho's edgy and innovative tale of adolescent yearnings. Life as a teenager isn't easy, and when your mother is lying in a coma following a suicide attempt, your father has abandoned the family, and your swimming coach puts the weight of the world on your shoulders, sometimes it's easy to get overwhelmed. Of course, not having a father to provide for the family means that finances aren't what they should be either, and as the medical bills pile up, sometimes it's better to just sit back, let the worries fade, and bask in one's fantasies about the beautiful woman who lives next door. Though a relationship with the lovely neighbor's daughter could provide a glimmer of joy in a life that seems to have spun out of control, it could also complicate things as her troubled past slowly comes into focus. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

Jeonjaeng (After War) is a compilation film featuring three short movies. A Letter From Hiroshima, directed by Nobuhiro Suwa is a documentary in which the director abandons a woman in a hotel room so that she learns about his hometown. Survival Game, directed by Moon Seung-wook, is a fictional film about a businessman who has the tables turned on him during a game of paint-ball. The New Year is a documentary from Wang Xiaoshuai about a dying man whose daughter finally arrives to be with him after she has experienced bureaucratic troubles in America. After War was screened at the Locarno Film Festival. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide