Movies by Jeong Ae-hwa

Family Portrait
Despite never seeing eye to eye, Minjung's family always gathers for a family portrait on members' birthdays. Minjung's father passed away last year and the family decides to meet on his birthday for the keepsake tradition.

Bring Me Home
Jung-yeon receives a tip-off that her son who went missing six years ago is in a fishing village. Local officers get in her way, trying to cover up a secret that might be related to her case.

Hansel: Two School Skirts
Shortly before the start of music class, where the teacher forces the students to sing as a punishment, Hansel, a high school student, realizes that she has forgotten to bring her recorder. For Hansel, the idea of singing in front of her classmates is worse than death, so she rushes home to get her recorder.

My Little Brother
Soo-kyung works as a reporter. She has an older brother, Sung-ho, and younger sister, Joo-mi. She thinks of her two siblings as burdens. One day, Nak appears in front of them. He is their youngest sibling.

Gull
O-bok’s eldest daughter is about to get married to an educated, well-off young man, but she’s far from happy. It’s not just hot weather, hot flushes, her daughters’ materialism, her mother’s dementia, her husband’s drinking, or the impending gentrification of the food market where she sells fish – although all of that will push her to take a stand. After trying to cover it up, O-bok reveals to her daughter that she was raped by a fellow stallholder, the man organising the traders against their landlords. Increasingly furious, O-bok eschews t...

The Insect Woman
A high school student thinks disgust is the real feelings she can feel. Before the election of the school president, she is looking for her classmate who has been abused by her and quit middle school.

The Lee Families
The country house, the only inheritance from the grandfather, was bequeathed to the eldest grandson. Upon hearing this news, the mother cannot simply stand by and allow it to happen.

The Land of Morning Calm
Feeling stuck, young fisherman Yong-su sees no hope in his future - like a fish in a net. As a last resort, he plans an insurance scam by staging his disappearance, hoping to provide a better life for his Vietnamese wife and his ageing mother. At the centre of this scheme is his captain, Yeong-guk, who reluctantly reports Yong-su missing. However, when Yong-su’s mother refuses to connect her son’s disappearance with his death, the white lie snowballs into something harder to chew.