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Forest

UM Tea Hwa

Korea201233min

Synopsis

There is always a hot friend around us. Most of the time, however, we make them hot, and not because they are hot. With this inherent inferiority complex in ordinary people, director Um Tae-hwa has created an interesting work through a simple relationship between two men and a woman. Like a thick forest, we can’t tell what’s inside a person until it’s revealed. (Martin LEE)

Diretor

UM Tea Hwa

Born in 1981, Um Tae-hwa graduated from the Advertising Design Department of Hongik University. He was awarded in the Mise-en-scène Short Film Festival for his short film Forest (2012). Later, he started to be called ‘Super Rookie’ because of his independent film INGtoogi: The Battle of Internet Trolls (2013). Vanishing Time: A boy who returned (2016) is his first commercial film.