SKFF 2022
Swedish Korean Film Festival is an online film festival promoting Korean and Swedish short films taking place from August 25 to 28 august 2022.
A SILENT NIGHT
자매들의 밤
by Kim Boram / 2020 / 22 min / Republic of Korea / Korean - English subtitles
Five sisters gather at the big sister's house in memory of their late mother. Hyejung, the eldest sister, suggests they send their half brother on a trip to Hawaii for his 70th birthday. But Junghee, the youngest, has a long kept secret to tell.
BARGAIN
몸값
by Lee Chung-Hyun / 2015 / 14 min / Republic of Korea / Korean - English subtitles
A man and a virgin school girl get together to have a sexual relationship. He continually bargains a ransom for her.
BEFORE I GROW UP
어른이 되기 전에
by Lee Jun sup / 2020 / 26 min / Republic of Korea / Korean - English subtitles
Someone put up banners all over the town. The banners read: “The asshole living in room 302 in Rainbow villa has carried on with my wife for five years. I will kill him.” A boy asks his first love if she would like him to remove them. She answers: “Fuck you.”
BEFORE THE SUMMER PASSES
아마 늦은 여름이었을 거야
by Kim Sohyoung / 2020 / 26 min / Republic of Korea / Korean - English subtitles
Jeongyeon decides to celebrate her 60th birthday by visiting her daughter who’s been married and living in Japan. At her arrival, she expected to be greeted by her daughter, but instead it is her granddaughter Uekusa An who comes.
EDITH & ALJOSJA
by Ann Holmgren / 2015 / 8 min / Sweden / Swedish - English subtitles
A Sami woman, staying at one side of the river, and a Swedish man, living on the other side, become attracted to each other.
THE FEAR
Fruktan
by Olivier Guerpillon / 2014 / 10 min / Sweden / Swedish - English subtitles
A short thriller on the psychological consequences of violence against women.
FIGHT ON A SWEDISH BEACH
by Simon Vahlne / 2016 / 14 min / Sweden / Swedish - English subtitles
EPIC BEACH FIGHT!! This is what happens when you yell "Sieg Heil" sieg heil and call someone's wife a whore. He had it coming.
HELLO
안부
by Jin Seong-moon / 2015 / 26min / Republic of Korea / Korean - English subtitles
Joo-young tries to call a friend on her birthday, only to find out that her number is not in use anymore. She spends all day looking for her and learns some things she never knew about her lost friend. Soon, the forgotten memory of that day comes back to her.
HIGH SKY LOW LAND
Alvaret
by Maria Eriksson-Hecht / 2021 / 20 min / Sweden / Swedish - English subtitles
Under the summer high sky, on the low land of a barren island, a young girl tries to force her father not give up on what’s left of their family.
IN/OUT
In/Ut
by Olivier Guerpillon / 2014 / 21 min / Sweden / Swedish, English, Arabic - English subtitles
A young Swedish boy and his family come to Morocco for a day trip on a tourist bus from Spain. They visit Tangier, the famous harbour city by the strait of Gibraltar, at the doorstep of Europe. Mehdi is a street kid from Tangier with dreams of his own. Their paths will cross during some hot summer hours.
MAN OF NATIONAL MERIT
국가유공자
by Park Chan-woo / 2020 / 33 min / Republic of Korea / Korean - English subtitles
The lifelong dream of Yeongchun, a Korean war veteran, is to be buried in the National Cemetery. But the nation he fought for is unwilling to give him that honor. Inspired by a true story from the director's family.
MOONWOLVES
Månulvarna
by Nima Yousefi, Co-directors: Oskar Gullstrand, Jonas Lindman / 2016 / 12 min / Sweden / no dialogue
The Moonwolves like everything that glitters and shines. But most of all, they love the moon. Every night they sit and stare dreamily towards it. One night, their longing grew so intense that they decided to try to go to the moon.
NONI & ELIZABETH
by Nanna Blondell / 2016 / 15 min / Sweden / Swedish - English subtitles
Noni is 10, and during the week she lives with her mother in Vasastan and at weekends with her father in Skärholmen. With her stepsister Elizabeth, one weekend Noni sees the world for what it is - upside down.
RISING STAR
기대주
by Kim Seon-kyong / 2019 / 23 min / Republic of Korea / Korean - English subtitles
A middle aged lady, Myung-ja becomes one of the candidates for an amateur swimming competition. Myung-ja doesn’t want to let Ji-gyu, a teenage girl, get the chance.
ROBOT AND THE WHALE
Roboten och Valen
by Jonas Forsman / 2018 / 6 min / Sweden / No dialogue
A long time ago humans left the planet Earth. Lobo, a cheerful robot who loves animals and plants, one day meets a stranded whale on the beach. Lobo will have to overcome his fear of water in order to save her, but it’s not easy, especially since a single drop of water can make him rust.
SCHOOLYARD BLUES
Skolstartssorg
by Maria Eriksson-Hecht / 2017 / 17 min / Sweden / Swedish - English subtitles
It's John's first day at school. Unexpectedly his eleven-year-old big brother Mika shows up to follow him to assembly. But Mika has plans other than just taking John to school. Mika sees it as his mission to teach John the hard facts of the world, starting with the merciless demands of the schoolyard.
STUMBLING FAMILY
반신불수가족
by Ryu Yeon-su / 2021 / 25 min / Republic of Korea / Korean - English subtitles
A disharmonious family decides to visit a theater with a partially paralyzed father. In the crowded theater, the family struggles to move ahead.
TEN METER TOWER
Hopptornet
by Axel Danielson, Maximilien Van Aertryck / 2016 / 16 min / Sweden / Swedish - English subtitles
A ten meter diving tower. People who have never been up there before have to choose whether to jump or climb down. The situation itself highlights a dilemma: to weigh the instinctive fear of taking the step out against the humiliation of having to climb down. Ten Meter Tower is an entertaining study of the human in a vulnerable position.
THE TRANSFER STUDENT
전학생
by Park Ji-in / 2015 / 23 min / Republic of Korea / Korean - English subtitles
The day just before her transfer. Soo-hyang practices her intonation to hide her origin.
Swedish Korean Film Festival 2022 is arranged by
the Embassy of the Republic of Korea in the Kingdom of Sweden
in collaboration with the Korean Film Council, Asiatiska FilmFestivalen and the Embassy of Sweden in Seoul