Corydoras

Corydoras

RYU Hyung-seok • 2021

Duration: 01:27:22
Language: Korean
Subtitles: English
Country/Region: South Korea

After leaving the disability facility where he began writing poetry, Park Dong-soo lives independently but struggles to write. He buys corydoras fish, falls asleep while watching them, and dreams of his former home. He then returns to those places, searching for traces of his poems.

Non-Fiction
Disability Poetry IndependentLiving

AWARDS & FESTIVALS

Jeonju International Film Festival

South Korea

2021

Seoul International ALT Cinema & Media Festival

South Korea

2021

DMZ International Documentary Film Festival

South Korea

2021

Grand Prize

Persons with Disabilities Film Festival

South Korea

2021

Audience Award

Beautiful Hapcheon Independent Film Festival

South Korea

2021

Festival du Film Coréen à Paris

France

2021

Florence Korea Film Festival

Italy

2022

Seoul Human Rights Film Festival

South Korea

2022

London Korean Film Festival

United Kingdom

2023

CAST & CREW

RYU Hyung-seok RYU Hyung-seok

Director

DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT

RYU Hyung-seok

RYU Hyung-seok

Director

Park Dong-soo, who has a disability but still writes poems, gets praised by people. However, he finds it difficult to express his feelings in language. This difficulty gets worse after coming out of the facility. The film shows how he finds his own “poetry”, exploring what “poetry” means to a human being, and that it is not just written letters, but an art that can be expressed with the whole body in various moments of daily life.

TRAILER

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FILM STILLS

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