The 36th The Korean Association of Film Critics Award, Rookie of the Year award (2016,Korea)
The 14th Florence Korea Film Fest (2016,Italy)
The 20th Busan International Film Festival (2015,Korea)
The 41th Seoul Independent Film Festival, Grand Prize (2015,Korea)
The 15th Marrakech International Film Festival, Jury Prize (2015,Morocco)

A homeless girl, Ha-dam, stays in empty houses to get by. In the winter, she leaves Seoul and heads to Busan, searching for work. But it's tough to do much without a phone or address. On top of it all, she is often deceived by adults. On the way to her shelter after failing another job interview, suddenly the sound of tap dancing catches her ears. The instant fascination with the rhythm of tap touches her heart like a magic. From that moment, she starts to dance on the street and to love every moment of it. But the cold reality of life keeps coming toward her like roaring currents. 

After finishing ‘Wild Flowers’, which was about the harsh reality of survival on the street, I kept asking myself a question ‘What makes a person survive with dignity?’ I imagined a story of a desperate girl who is struggling to get a job. Then she falls in love with the rhythm of ‘tap dancing’. ‘Steel Flower’ is my second feature but is my first personal film. In the process of making ‘Steel Flower’ I learned how filmmaking can be my dignity in survival on the street, just as tap dancing was for Ha-dam.

- PARK Suk-young