30/5 — 5/6/2024
64th International Film Festival
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Section: Panorama

A Boy and Sungreen (2018) 14

South Korea | 2018 | 99 min.

There is a fragile and sensitive boy in a tough world. His mother named him Bo-hee, but others have given him an unusual nickname. There is a seemingly unbreakable girl. Her name is Nok-yang (Sungreen) and she is Bo-hee´s best friend. Bo-hee finds out that his mother has a boyfriend, and that his supposedly-dead father is alive. He sets out to find his father with Sungreen. His life is suddenly flooded with new people; his father´s friends, his cousin and her boyfriend. Tracing him down through the clues given by those people, Bo-hee gets closer to his father.

CountrySouth Korea
Year2018
Duration99 min
Rating14
LanguageKorean
SubtitleEnglish, Czech
Directed by AHN Ju-young
Screenplay AHN Ju-young
Director of Photography LEE Seong-yong
Music Juno LEE
Edited by AHN Ju-young
Contact M-Line Distribution

Biography

Beginning Korean director. She initially studied French literature, film and media, then film directing at the Korean Film Academy. Here she shot, e.g. Pig Riding Hood (2016). She made her feature debut with the drama A Boy and Sungreen (Bo-hee-wa Nok-yang, 2018).

Teenagers, Family, Friendship, Positive Choices, Teamwork