The 12th Korean Film Festival in Paris (2017,France)
The 22th Vilnius International Film Festival (2017,Lithuania)
The 19th Buenos Aires Int'l Independent Film Festival (2017,Argentina)
The 12th London Korean Film Festival (2017,UK)
The 1st Marianas International Film Festival, Best Original Music (2017,USA)
The 52th Karlovy Vary Int'l Film Festival (2017,Czech Republic)
The 10th LICHTER Filmfest Frankfurt International (2017,Germany)
The 5th Muju Film Festival (2017,Korea)
The 42th Seoul Independent Film Festival (2016,Korea)
The 21th Busan International Film Festival, NETPAC Award (2016,Korea)

MO Geum-san is a barber living in the rural area, who once aspired to be an actor. He starts to have doubts about his humdrum life after the village health center advises him to be examined at a larger hospital. He comes up with a plan to give a gift to his beloved ones in the coming Christmas. The plan is to invite everyone to the local culture center and to screen his self-made comedy movie based on his own tragic life. For this, he brings over his son Stephan, an aspiring film director, and his long-standing lover Ye-won from Seoul. They wander around shooting a silent film with an 8mm camera parodying Charlie Chaplin’s silent movies. Meanwhile, as he follows his father, Stephan is seized with an ominous premonition and ends up facing the worst truth he couldn’t ever imagine.

I wished to restore a certain period of time and space from our past. I intended to return some of the essential human emotions back to where they used to be, which are discarded as something outdated and sentimental in today’s society. One could call these as the remnants of ‘romanticism’.
The protagonist of this film ‘MO Geum-san’ represents a generation of paradox. This is a generation that ran away from home in the periods of industrialization, a generation that jumped over the time lag between the rural area and the city. Facing his imminent death, he is presented with a new perspective on life. Yet, for some reason, this perspective does not seem to fit into modern times. It is somehow tacky, unnatural, and even ridiculous. Of course, living in this ‘cool’ society, we could merely sneer at this character, or perhaps we could be affected a little. 

- LIM Dae-hyung