SKFF 2021
Swedish Korean Film Festival is an online film festival promoting Korean and Swedish short films taking place from August 26 to 29 august 2021.
A SMALL, GOOD THING
아무것도 아니지만
by Hwang Ji-eun / 2016 / 15 min / South Korea / Korean - English subtitles
Mingun's mother would like to meet her ex-teacher. The mother goes to the school where the teacher transferred to. She has something to give to her.
AWAITING DEATH
I väntan på döden
by Lars Vega & Isabelle Björklund 2019 / 12 min / Sweden / Swedish - English subtitles
A son arrives at the hospital to watch over his father's death bed. When the son wants to have a last memorable moment all his father would like to do is find out what will be done with the two opened cans of mustard.
BARGAIN SALE KILLER
바겐 세일 킬러
by Hyung Seulwoo / 2019 / 10 min / South Korea / Korean - English subtitles
An assassin with 0% failure standing on a rooftop of a building waiting for another target that doesn’t show when the client calls: "The target is going to be late. I'm really sorry, but can you give me a discount?"
BATH HOUSE
Simhall
by Niki Lindroth von Bahr
2014 / 14 min / Sweden / Swedish - English subtitles
Six characters meet in a bath house. The pedant bath house manager, a couple with a strange way of communicating and a gang with shady intentions. Something goes wrong.
ELSA AND THE NIGHT
Sigrid och Natten
by Jöns Mellgren / 2019 / 19 min / Sweden / no dialogue
Elsa who is afraid of the dark and has never been able to sleep at night, meets the Night in person. Elsa tells the Night of her life, and of her best friend, an elephant named Olaf, as the Night accompanies her on a moving journey.
FIRST LOVE
깊고 오랜 사랑
by Kang Ji-sook / 2016 / 29 min / South Korea / Korean - english subtitles
Two girls attending the same school fell in love with each other and their love lasted for forty years. They couldn’t express their love openly to the world but they lived a happy life. One day, however, a sudden death strikes their relationship.
GAMES
Spel
by Amanda Kernell / 2009 / 14 min / Sweden / Swedish - no subtitles
It's Friday night. Emma gets angry when her father tells her to be home by midnight. From the collectors who then knocks on the door Emma and her little brother gets to know that their father is evicted and has to be out the next morning. Emma is packing a bag to leave her father behind..
LADIES OF THE FOREST
산나물 처녀
by Kim Cho-hee / 2016 / 29 min / South Korea / Korean - english subtitles
Soon-shim, a 70 year old bachelorette from a different planet, visits Earth in search of a lover. However, instead of discovering a new lover, she finds Dal-rae, who is picking herbs all alone.
LAS PALMAS
Las Palmas
by Johannes Nyholm /2011 / 13 min / Sweden / no dialogue
A middle-aged lady on a holiday in the sun tries to make new friends and have a good time. The role is played by a one year old girl, the rest of the cast are marionette puppets.
SHADOW ANIMALS
Skuggdjur
by Jerry Carlsson / 2017 / 21 min / Sweden / Swedish - english subtitles
A young girl follows her parents to a party where she experiences assorted grown-up rituals. As the evening progresses, she finds the adults' behaviour increasingly strange. Everyone tries to fit in, but not everyone succeeds.
SUMMER NIGHT
여름밤
by Lee Ji-won / 2016 / 30 min / South Korea / Korean - english subtitles
Soyoung, a woman in her 20s struggling to make a living and getting a job, begins tutoring a high school senior Minjeong. One day, Minjeong asks Soyoung if they could reschedule a session and the story takes an unexpected turn.
TAIL
꼬리
by Kim Hu-jung / 2018 / 29 min / South Korea / Korean - english subtitles
Jong-hak works as a consultant helping refugees from North Korea and at the same time as a spy betraying the names of refugees’ to the North Korean regime. Jong-hak’s mundane daily life is upended when his watch breaks and everything changes.
THE GHOST
역귀
by Lim Seung-hyeun / 2016 / 17 min / South Korea / Korean - english subtitles
A mortician steals gold-capped teeth from corpses for extra cash. One night, an unidentified body is carried to the funeral parlor and the nightshirt turns into a nightmare.
THE SOUND OF LIGHT
어둠에서 빛이 흘러나오는 소리
by Lee Kyung-sub / 2016 / 15 min / South Korea / Korean - english subtitles
At the director’s request, the film’s sound engineer Mr. Jung and his staff set off on a journey to find the sound of light flowing out of darkness. Their effort to find the sound within the flow of time grows more and more persistent and their passion for the movie becomes another movie in itself.
THE TRAFFIC SEPARATING DEVICE
Spårviddshinder
by Johan Palmgren / 2018 / 14 min / Sweden / Swedish - English subtitles
In order to rectify the poor bus accessibility at Slussen station, the city council, as per the municipal board’s recommendation, erects so-called ‘bus traps’ on the street. The ensuing chaos gives rise to a tragi-comic societal satire no one saw coming.
THE TURK SHOP
Turkkiosken
by Bahar Pars / 2017 / 7 min / Sweden / Swedish - English subtitles
The Turkish Kiosk is a short film about how the clueless use of a small word creates uncomfortable feelings in a modern workplace.
Swedish Korean Film Festival 2021 was arranged by
the Embassy of the Republic of Korea in the Kingdom of Sweden
in collaboration with Asiatiska FilmFestivalen and Östasiatiska Museet in Stockholm.