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En Route To

Generation 14plus 2026
A seemingly typical day unfolds at an all-girls’ boarding school in the countryside. When form teacher Jong-sung fails to turn up for class, most of the pupils remain indifferent – only the pregnant Yun-ji, a quiet outsider, is increasingly filled with unease. The situation escalates when Jong-sung’s angry wife storms into the classroom. Driven to desperation, Yun-ji leaves the school premises to buy illegal abortion pills. In order to pay for them, she has plundered the savings of her sharp and outgoing roommate, Kyung-sun, who has been putting the money aside from her underground liquid vape business to finance a year abroad in Australia. When Kyung-sun discovers the theft, she embarks on a search for Yun-ji which leads her to uncover a shocking truth. A story about the abuse of power and the right over one’s own body, about love and responsibility, society and community.

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by Yoo Jaein (Director, Screenplay)
with Sim Subin, Lee Jiwon, Jang Sun South Korea 2025 Korean 106' Colour International premiere | Debut film recommendation: 14 years and up

With

  • Sim Subin
  • Lee Jiwon
  • Jang Sun

Crew

Director Yoo Jaein
Screenplay Yoo Jaein
Cinematography Baek Jaeryung
Editing Yoo Jaein
Music Lee Eunjoo
Sound Design Kim Soohyun
Production Design Ahn Dukjin
Costumes Lee Yunjung
Make-Up Kim Soyun
Producer Kim Jihyong
Executive Producer Kim Jihyong

Produced by

KAFA (Korean Academy of Film Arts)

South Korea

World Sales

Hive Filmworks Inc.

Seoul, South Korea

Photos

Yoo Jaein

Born in South Korea in 1985, she graduated from the Department of Printmaking at Hongik University, worked as an artist in Seoul and participated in several film workshops. Ghwa The Last Name won the Chung Jung-won award for Best Short Film at the Blue Dragon Film Awards. En Route To is her graduation project from the pre-production and feature film production programme run by the Korean Academy of Film Arts.

Filmography

2017 HAPPYHAPPY COOKINGTIME; short documentary 2019 Hey, How Are You?; short film 2021 return to sender; short film 2023 Ghwa The Last Name; short film 2025 En Route To; Berlinale 2026

Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2026