The 21st Seoul Independent Animation Festival

Seoul Indie-AniFest202518. SEP(THU).2025 ~ 23. SEP(TUE).2025

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Seoul Indie-AniFest2024 First Flight
Forever
  • KANG Hanbi
  • 2024
  • 0:04:57
  • Drawing, Cel
Screening Schedule
DateTimeVenue
2024. 9. 29(SUN) 16:00 GV CINEMA 6
2024. 9. 30(MON) 17:00 CINEMA 5
Synopsis

The child who sings a lullaby to the lying old man leaves the room after checking that the old man is asleep. After the old man wakes up, the room is filled with water, and a butterfly is waiting for the old man. The butterfly flies around the old man's notebook as if it were telling something. The old man sees it and writes something in his notebook and follows the butterfly toward the door In the space beyond the door, parents are waiting, and the old man becomes a child and returns to his parents' arms. After that, there was a child left in the room, and when tears fell on the floor, the notebook came out The child learns that the love of the old man remains forever through the writings in the notebook and the butterflies in the notebook.

Director's Comment

Through the difference between the characters facing death in the work, death means reunification with the family for the elderly and separation from the parents for the child, and it is directed in the direction of relieving the sadness of separation and showing both sides of death by showing separation and reunion. And it focused on the relationship between parents and children regardless of gender by obscuring the gender of the elderly and children so that anyone can empathize and empathize.

Staff

Producer/Scenario/Storyboard/Character/BG/Lay Out/Animation/Camera/Effect/Sound/Editing KANG Hanbi

Program Note

The woman’s hand gently pats the grandmother lying in bed as if putting a baby to sleep. The grandmother is roused from sleep and writes something in a notebook, then departs for her destination. When the woman is left all alone, she sits in the empty bed and weeps while thinking about the departed grandmother. Birth and death happen at the same time. Such is our fate, and we are helpless before it. But we endure it and live each day with love that transcends time. This neatly directed film with its simple imagery captivates the heart. KANG Minji

Filmography
감독
  • KANG Hanbi 
  • 2024 [Forever]