Paranmanjang

Night Fishing

Berlinale Shorts Special Programme 2025

Deep in the woods, cutting through the fog, a man appears, carrying a fishing bag. He arrives at the edge of a river. The man leisurely goes about setting up his fishing rods and starts fishing. Hours later, night has fallen on the quiet riverside. The man has not caught many fish and just sits, waiting. Just then, something big is caught on the fishing rod. It is not something he can put on his dinner plate, but a mysterious young woman in a white funeral dress, crying in a little girl’s voice, calling him “daddy”…

Trailer/Film Excerpt

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by PARKing CHANce (Director), Park Chan-wook (Screenplay), Park Chan-kyong (Screenplay)
with Oh Kwang-rok, Lee Jung-hyun, Uhuhboo Project South Korea 2011 Korean 33' Black/White & Colour

With

Oh Kwang-rok (Man)
Lee Jung-hyun (Woman)
Uhuhboo Project (Band)

Crew

Director	PARKing CHANce
Screenplay	Park Chan-wook, Park Chan-kyong
Cinematography	Ju Sung-lim
Editing	Kim Woo-il
Music	Jang Young-gyu
Sound Design	Kim Suk-won, Kim Chang-sub
Production Design	Jo Hwa-seong
Producer	Wonjo Jeong

Produced by

Moho Film

Gyeonggi-do, South Korea

World Sales

CJ Enm

Seoul, South Korea

PARKing CHANce

“PARKing CHANce” is the name used by the Park brothers, film director Park Chan-wook and contemporary artist Park Chan-kyong, when they work together. It is inspired by the idea that the opportunity to work freely as an artist without worrying about genre, medium or profits is about as likely as finding a parking space in Seoul – but is truly welcome when it occurs. Since Paranmanjang, which won the Golden Bear at the 2011 Berlinale and which is being rescreened in the “You and I Are Not Alone – Berlinale Shorts Revisited” programme in 2025, they have made a number of other short films.

Filmography (short films)

2011 Paranmanjang (Night Fishing) · Odal Slow 2012 Day Trip 2013 V; music video 2014 Bitter Sweet Seoul 2017 Decades Apart 2018 Believe It or Not 2022 Life is But a Dream

Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2025