These are twelve short films you shouldn’t miss at the Film Festival for Women’s Rights which will take place from September 20 – 24, 2023 at ARTNINE, Seoul, Korea.

BOARDING INSTITUTE by PARK Yongjae – Korea | 2022 – 30 minutes
Minyeong is teaching at an illegal boarding institute when one of her students passes out. Minyeong begins to suspect that the student passed out not because of fatigue but because she has been using drug, and finds herself conflicted. (FIWOM 2023)

Borderline by Ko Eunsang – Korea | 2022 – 18 minutes
Yoonsung, who is a radical feminist, works as a waitress for a part-time job. One day, her position was suddenly changed from hall to kitchen, and the newcomer, Jihee unintentionally replaces her. (FIWOM 2023)

Framily by KIM In-hye – Korea | 2022 – 30 minutes
Having recently called off her wedding, Seon-ji prepares ritual food with her friend Jin-hee, who is now her sister-in-law after marrying Seon-ji’s older brother. Before long, Jin-hee’s senseless behavior begins to irritate Seon-ji. (FIWOM 2023)

Leave at Door, Bell X by Jooyoung LEE – Korea | 2022 – 19 minutes
Ji-ho takes the electric bike that needed the fortune to buy and goes on delivery like any other day. Yet, as Ji-ho gets involved in a delivery accident, Ji-ho tries to rectify the error, but once the situation goes wrong, it snowballs. Ji-ho’s way home from work, after having an unexpectedly difficult day, is indeed not rosy at all. (FIWOM 2023)

Love, Barbara by Brydie O’Connor – USA | 2022 – 16 minutes
Pioneering experimental filmmaker Barbara Hammer centered her own body, community, and love to create performative documentations of her lived experience as a lesbian. Her imprint on the art world, on women artists, and on the lesbian community is profound and indelible. However, her greatest love of all – Florrie Burke, who was her partner of over 30 years – was left largely visually unexplored in her public work. In LOVE, BARBARA, the viewer witnesses Burke’s enduring love and grief as she discovers artwork inspired by their relationship, much of it previously unseen, that Hammer left for her to find only after she was gone. (FIWOM 2023)

SandStorm by Seemab Gul – Pakistan, UK | 2021 – 20 minutes
Zara, a schoolgirl in Karachi (Pakistan), shares a sensual dance video with her virtual boyfriend, who then blackmails her. Caught between his manipulative behaviour and the desire to experience love on her own terms, Zara searches for the strength to reject the confines of a patriarchal society. (FIWOM 2023)

See You by LEE Ju-yong – Korea | 2022 – 15 minutes
Hyun-jung, a convenience store manager who has been suffering from operational difficulties for more than a year, finally decides to close the store. The part-timer, who quit his job overnight due to the sudden closure, is embarrassed, but heads back to the convenience store to get his retirement allowance. (FIWOM 2023)

See-Saw by LEE Hyun-Kyung – Korea | 2023 – 14 minutes
Taeyeon’s 13-month-old daughter Siyeon cries all day. Tired of parenting, Taeyeon dreams of killing her own daughter, Siyeon. Waking up from her dream, Taeyeon puts Siyeon in a stroller and heads to the park, where she learns to skateboard from a boy she meets. (FIWOM 2023)

Still Waters by Aurora Brachman – USA | 2022 – 13 minutes
“I think I know what happened, but we’ve never really talked about it.” In Still Waters, filmmaker Aurora Brachman asks her mother a question she’s always suspected but never known the answer to. When her mother confirms she was sexually abused as a child, they are forced to face its reverberating effects throughout their lives. This intimate, confronting, and cathartic conversation charts a mother and daughter’s relationship as they navigate the intergenerational forces of secrecy and silence that have shaped them both. (FIWOM 2023)

The LEE Families by SEO Jeong-mi – Korea | 2023 – 26 minutes
The country house, the only inheritance left by the grandfather, was bequeathed to the eldest grandson. The mother cannot just stand by and let it happen. (FIWOM 2023)

To my Unnie by KIM SHIN Ho-san – Korea | 2022 – 21 minutes
*Unnie: Korean word used by females for addressing an elder sister Yeon is a free spirit basking in music and smoking. When her little sister Daon comes her way with bruises all over, Yeon must face what she had tried to look away from. (FIWOM 2023)

When You Grow Up by KIM Eun-hee – Korea | 2022 – 34 minutes
Junghee goes to the newlywed house of Soyeon, a friend of hers since high school. While waiting another friend, Bo-yeong, who arrives late, Junghee, Soyeon, and Soyeon’s husband(Kangseok) have a conversation while talking. (FIWOM 2023)

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