SYNOPSIS

Actress Sori arrives at the funeral of a film director she
 had once worked with. Apart from the wife and young
 son of the deceased, the only person present at the
 funeral parlor is Jeong-rak, who had co-starred with
 Sori in the director\'s film. He is more than happy to see
 Sori in a long time, but tensions brew when a budding
 actress, Seo-young, joins the gathering.

Program Note

 
 
 These are the three short films produced by
 MOON So-ri, one of Korea\'s most renowned actresses. Recipient of the Venice
 International Film Festival\'s Marcello Mastroianni Award in 2002, MOON So-ri
 was named a jury member of Swiss Locarno Film Festival in 2015 and is currently
 establishing her worldwide reputation as an intelligent actress. MOON So-ri
 demonstrates her intellect through her productions of her three short films The
 Actress, The Running Actress, and The Best Director, which were her
 graduation film projects. These three films, all of which feature Moon So-ri as
 the film\'s director and leading actress, are all self-introspective black
 comedy films that capture MOON So-ri\'s personal perspective and story. The
 films all begin with a scene inside the actress\' van, where the actress is
 waiting. In these films, MOON So-ri is playing the role of an actress (also
 named MOON So-ri) who is facing a severe lack of good acting roles for
 actresses like her – a mother in her 30s. With her unique ability to seamlessly
 transform into her character, MOON So-ri shows us the casual and off-screen
 life of an actress, who is always charismatic on screen. The stories take place
 at a drinking party in The Actress, the actress\' house in The Running
 Actress, and a funeral in The Best Director. Within these films, director
 and actress MOON So-ri takes her perspective on a filmdom which judges an
 actress solely based on her age and appearance, the narcissism of a director
 who wants to create art, and the struggles of fulfilling her roles as an
 actress, mother, daughter-in-law, and wife, and uses it to create it a series
 of black comedy films, all of which are intertwined with both self-contempt and
 self-pity. [Sunah KIM].