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서울국제여성영화제

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Korean Panorama, Here & Now

New CurrentsPolemics: Digital Sexual Politics and Transformative Thinking

Dear you, unrelated

KIM Taeyang, SOHN Koo-yong, LEE Mi-rang, LEE Jongsu

  • South Korea
  • 2025
  • 50min
  • G
  • DCP
  • color, b&w

Synopsis

Dear you, unrelated is a contemporary project that dares to believe in the potential of fiction. Directors Lee Mi Rang and Lee Jongsu attempt to imaginatively restore the lost ending of The Widow. In The Widow: Rewoven, Lee Mi Rang reimagines the protagonist Shinja making a radically different decision from the original. Her film captures the inner turmoil and determination of a woman once dismissed as an Après-girl, tracing her hesitant yet resolute steps toward a new path. In Bearer of Dawn, Lee Jongsu presents a fictional scenario in which Shinja seeks revenge by finding a blacksmith. A newly added sequence in which she chooses a sword shifts the film’s tone from drama into one infused with the suspense of a thriller.
Kim Taeyang transforms the second short film from his 2024 project Mimang into black-and-white, weaving it together with scenes from The Widow to create a new cinematic piece through montage. Sohn Koo-yong, in The Invisible Face(s), explores the imagined relationship between actress Kim Shinjae, whom director Park Nam-ok admired throughout her life, and Lee Minja, the actual star of The Widow. His work traverses the boundary between potential faces that existed outside the frame and those captured as images within it, fictionalizing the tension between representation and presence.​

Director's Statement

Park Nam-ok’s final work, The Widow (1955), guides us toward a site of (im)possibility. This single film left behind by the director serves as a cornerstone for reestablishing the lineage of Korean women filmmakers. Through one female director, we rediscover a new potential within Korean film history. Yet The Widow, a film that has reached us with its ending lost, also presents us with the impossibility of a complete reading. In other words, while Park Nam-ok and her film The Widow unlocked a long-sealed door as Korea’s first woman film director, we who have stepped through that door still find ourselves lingering in unfamiliar territory. Kim Taeyang, Sohn Koo-yong, Lee Mi Rang, and Lee Jongsu—the four directors participating in this project—attempt to imaginatively restore the missing ending of The Widow or explore its production process through fictional reimaginings. In some cases, they intercut scenes from existing films with The Widow, narrowing the temporal and cinematic distance between two fictions. In doing so, they have engaged in a speculative joining of their own work with that of a director from a previous century.

schedule

Code Time Theater Grade
Dear you, unrelated042 2026-08-22 | 16:10 - 17:00 MEGABOX Sinchon 4 GV
Dear you, unrelated X The Widow120 2026-08-25 | 20:30 - 22:35 MEGABOX Sinchon 8

Director

  • KIM Taeyang

    Kim Taeyang was born in 1988 and studied film at Konkuk University. actors (2015) won the DMC Konet Best Film Award at the DMC Short Film Festival. Snail (2020) received a Special Mention at the Busan Intl. Short Film Festival, Best Director at the Cheongju Intl. Short Film Festival, and the Excellence Award at the Daegu Independent Short Film Festival. Seoul Cinema (2022) won the Audience Award at the Seoul Independent Film Festival.​

  • SOHN Koo-yong

    Sohn Koo-yong studied media and communication at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies and film at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His films A Walk (2017), Winter in Seoul (2018), Afternoon Landscape (2020), and Night Walk (2023) were invited to festivals including the IFFR, Yamagata Intl. Documentary Film Festival, Visions du Réel, and Taiwan Intl. Documentary Festival. Night Walk (2023) won the Documentary Award at the 24th JEONJU IFF.

  • LEE Mi-rang

    Lee Mi Rang studied creative writing and film at the Seoul Institute of the Arts and Yonsei University Graduate School of Communication & Arts. She worked as script supervisor on Poetry (Lee Chang-dong, 2010) and A Quiet Dream (Zhang Lu, 2016). She directed the short films Getting Married to a Vietnamese Girl (2005), The Bath (2007), and Chunjung (2013), as well as the feature film Concerning My Daughter (2023).

  • LEE Jongsu

    Lee Jongsu was born in 1990 and studied contemporary art at university. His feature debut, Heritage (2023), was selected for the New Currents section of the 28th Busan IFF.​

Credit

  • Producer〈무관한 당신들에게〉 노하정 〈미망인: 다시 맺음〉 김지룡, 이미랑 〈보이지 않는 얼굴(들)〉 손구용 〈이신자(異晨者)〉 정보라
  • Cast 〈무관한 당신들에게〉 이명하, 박봉준 〈미망인: 다시 맺음〉 하윤경, 정동근, 하성국, 이다니 〈보이지 않는 얼굴(들)〉 윤세현, 한새연 〈이신자(異晨者)〉 황현빈, 윤혁진, 김기태
  • Screenwriter 〈무관한 당신들에게〉 김태양 〈미망인: 다시 맺음〉 이미랑 〈이신자(異晨者)〉 이종수
  • Cinematographer 〈무관한 당신들에게〉 김진형 〈미망인: 다시 맺음〉 김지룡 〈보이지 않는 얼굴(들)〉 문용훈 〈이신자(異晨者)〉 김유민
  • Editor 〈무관한 당신들에게〉 이호승 〈미망인: 다시 맺음〉 이미랑 〈보이지 않는 얼굴(들)〉 손구용 〈이신자(異晨者)〉 이종수
  • Music 〈무관한 당신들에게〉 이지성
  • Others 〈무관한 당신들에게〉 문주화(기획), 포스트 사운드잇 김주현, 김준용, 양혜진(믹싱) 〈미망인: 다시 맺음〉 문주화(기획), 박수환(스틸촬영) 〈보이지 않는 얼굴(들)〉 문주화(기획), 박수환(스틸촬영) 〈이신자(異晨者)〉 문주화(기획), 박수환(스틸촬영)
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Dear you, unrelated X The Widow

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