Beol-sae | House of Hummingbird
Generation 2019
KOR 2018
by: Kim Bo-ra
Jeong In-gi, Lee Seung-yeon, Son Sang-yeon, Park Ji-hu , Park Soo-yeon
Beol-sae | House of Hummingbird
Generation 2019
KOR 2018
by: Kim Bo-ra
Kim Sae-byuk, Park Ji-hu
Beol-sae | House of Hummingbird
Generation 2019
KOR 2018
by: Kim Bo-ra
Park Ji-hu
Beol-sae | House of Hummingbird
Generation 2019
KOR 2018
by: Kim Bo-ra
Park Seo-yoon, Park Ji-hu
Beol-sae | House of Hummingbird
Generation 2019
KOR 2018
by: Kim Bo-ra
Feb 12, 2019Lee Seungyeon, Park Ji-hu, Kim Saebyuk, Kim Bo-ra
The director (right) with her actresses.
Generation – Beol-sae | House of Hummingbird
Feb 12, 2019Film team
The team with the director (third from the right).
Generation – Beol-sae | House of Hummingbird
Feb 12, 2019Lee Seungyeon
The actress at the premiere.
Generation – Beol-sae | House of Hummingbird
Feb 15, 2019Film team
The International Jury with the winners after the award ceremony.
Generation – Beol-sae | House of Hummingbird – The Grand Prix of the Generation 14plus International Jury for the Best Film
Feb 15, 2019Zoe Sua Cho, Kim Bo-ra, Matija Strniša
The producer, the director and the composer after the award ceremony.
Generation – Beol-sae | House of Hummingbird – The Grand Prix of the Generation 14plus International Jury for the Best Film
‘What's the right way to live? Some days I feel like I know, but I really don't know for sure. I just know that when bad things happen, good things happen too.’
Korea, 1994. The South is in the grips of FIFA World Cup fever, while the North mourns its newly deceased dictator. Eunhee registers all of this only in passing. Drifting through her days in Seoul, the eighth-grader feels like an outsider everywhere: at school, where her classmates bore her even more than the schoolwork, and at home, where her parents are always at each other's throats and her brother beats her. She tries to fall in love, has to go to hospital after an inconclusive biopsy, and has a falling-out with her best friend – yet nothing moves her with the same unexpected intensity as when a new Chinese tutor enters her life. With visual precision, Kim Bo-ra weaves a dense narrative around a regular summer that leaves nothing unchanged.
by
Kim Bo-ra
Republic of Korea 2018
Korean
138’ · Colour
Park Ji-hu (Eunhee)Kim Sae-byuk (Youngji)Lee Seung-yeon (Mother)Jeong In-gi (Father)
The South Korean filmmaker studied directing at Columbia University in New York. Her short film The Recorder Exam won numerous prizes including a Student Film Award from the Directors Guild of America. Her debut feature film, Beol-sae (House of Hummingbird), received production support from the Korean Film Council, the Seoul Film Commission and the Busan International Film Festival’s Asian Cinema Fund, as well as post-production support from the Sundance Institute’s Feature Film Program. It premiered at Busan where it won the NETPAC Award and the KNN Audience Award.
Filmography2002 Another Wonderland; short film 2003 The Girl with Red Shoes; short film 2004 The Earring; short film 2011 The Recorder Exam; short film 2018 Beol-sae (House of Hummingbird)
Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2019
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