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  • Director
    BYUN Sung-bin
  • Year
    2022
  • Nationality
    Korea
  • Genre
    Drama
  • Status
    Completed
  • Starring
    Hae-jun, KIM U-gyeom
  • Running Time
    114min
  • Festival & Review
    • 66th San Francisco International Film Festival




    • SYNOPSIS
      There still might be hope in this town where I was born and denied.

      Myung is a transgender who cut ties with her family and hometown because of who she is. Now, all she needs is the surgery but the only way to earn money, by winning the Waacking dance competition, didn’t go well. One day, she receives a call that her father passed away and Myung finds out that her father left a will that he will give her the legacy if she performs Drum Dance during his 49th memorial ritual. With no choice left, Myung goes back to her hometown to perform according to her father’s will.
    • DIRECTOR INFO
      • Biography

        BYUN Sung-bin, born in 1991, started making movies when he was in high school, with his first short <170mm> (2008) winning a few awards at local youth film festivals. An Eastern philosophy and video studies graduate of Sungkyunkwan University, he won the Golden Reel Award at the 2016 LA Asian Pacific Film Festival with (2015), and then received Best Short from the Tel Aviv International LGBT Film Festival for his next short (2019). It is however with his latest, (2020), that he made the strongest impression, earning Best Picture trophies at the Seoul International Pride Film Festival and the Mise-en-scene Short Film Festival.

        Filmography

        Horn (2014) / 30min
        The Chicken of Wuzuh (2015) / 13min
        Hands and Wings (2019) / 18min
        God’s Daughter Dances (2020) / 25min
    • MATERIAL