Homecoming
Director MOON Hae-jun | Korea | 2023 | 17’49” | Fiction

Lunar New Year’s Eve arrives around the contract renewal season. Kim Young-ju, a corporate contractor, does not receive the usual holiday gift from work so dearly prized by her parents: the luxurious layered cake from Patisserie Lee Jong-yeh. She struggles to secure the coveted cake during the holiday season. With no particular plan, she heads straight to the boulangerie and runs into Choi Hee-ji, an apprentice patissier who just got kicked out. 

The Coldness
Director KIM Seol-yeong | Korea | 2023 | 25’22” | Fiction

In 2052, South Korea has implemented a waste quota system. So-yeon, who is disposing waste to receive supplies for living, finds a shepherd's purse seed in a pile of waste and hides it, knowing that she must return it to the government. When this is discovered by Chae-won, a waste ration government official, So-yeon reveals that she is planning to grow from the seed to make shepherd’s purse soybean paste stew.

A Tedious Girl
Director SONG Ye-chan | Korea | 2023 | 22’50” | Fiction

A couple who lives a little faster and a little slower than others. They are so different that they often pester each other and get bored these days. They try to reduce the time difference, but it is not easy to understand the other person’s time.