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IFF Message to Man > 2024 > International Competition: Short animation > Circle

Circle

Information about the film

Genres: Animation, Short-length

Director: Joung Yumi

Producer: Kim Kihyun

Producer company : Match Cut

Year: 2024

Country: South Korea

Duration: 7 min.

Languages: no dialogue

Description

The girl draws a circle on the ground. Passersby step into it, one by one. Soon the circle is full of people, struggling to stay within. Once the girl returns and erases the circle, people start heading their way.

About the director:

Joung Yumi
Filmmaker, animation artist, and illustrator. Studied animation directing at the Korean Academy of Film Arts. A participant and award-winner at leading global festivals, her films Dust Kid (2009), Math Test (2010), Love Games (2013), House of Existence (2022), The Waves (2023) have been selected for Cannes, Berlin, Locarno, and Zagreb film festivals. In addition to animation, she works in book illustration. For her illustrations in the books “Dust Kid” and “My Little Doll’s House”, she was awarded prizes at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair. In 2019, Yumi became a member of the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

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