The 57th Baeksang Arts Awards has announced its nominees for the television and film categories! The candidates were chosen among dramas, shows, and films that aired or were released between May 1, 2020 and April 11, 2021. However, works that were released during last year’s screening period were also included in this year’s pool. 40 industry experts were surveyed ahead of
The South Korean independent film “Moving On, which is set in Inchon (a port city near Seoul), mainly revolves around a young adolescent girl named Ok-joo (Choi Jung-woon) and her little younger brother Dong-joo (Park Seung-joo). The opening scene shows them on a bright summer day, moving out from their shabby apartment building along with their divorced father. We then see an effortlessly long shot as the camera patiently observes their minivan going along the alleys and streets of Inchon for several minutes.
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Because his current financial situation is quite poor due to some recent business failure, the father of these children has decided to stay at his father’s house for a while, and the grandfather does not have much problem with that. Not that well at present, this fragile old man remains mostly silent and unresponsive even when he meets his son and grandchildren again, and we come to sense the considerable gap between him and them even when they later