ARTE Film Festival (2014,Indonesia)
The 1st Asian Film Festival (2014,Germany)
Sonoma County Museum Symposium Screening (2014,USA)
Tripoli International Film Festival, Jury Special Prize (2013,Lebanon)
Five Flavours Film Festival in Warsaw (2013,Poland)
The 3rd Guam International Film Festival (2013,USA)
The 19th Athens International Film Festival (2013,Greece)
The 13th INDIE FESTIVAL in Brazil (2013,Brazil)
The 37th Montreal World Film Festival (2013,Canada)
The 42th International Film Festival Rotterdam (2013,the Netherlands)
The 29th Sundance Film Festival (2013,USA)
The 11th Asian Film Festival of Dallas (2013,USA)
The 29th Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film & Video Festival (2013,USA)
The 46th SITGES – International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia (2013,Spain)
The 33th Hawaii International Film Festival (2013,USA)
The 5th CPH:PIX - Copenhagen International Feature Film Festival (2013,Denmark)
The 67th Edinburgh International Film Festival (2013,UK)
MOOOV – films facing the world festivals (2013,Belgium)
The 2nd Sakhalin International Film festival (2013,Russia)
The 30th Jerusalem Film Festival (2013,Israel)
The 10th Yerevan International Film Festival (2013,Armenia)
The 35th Moscow International Film Festival (2013,Russia)
Korean Film Festival D.C. (2013,USA)
The 32th Istanbul Film Festival (2013,Turkey)
The 42th New Directors/New Films Festival (2013,USA)
CAAMFest(The Center for Asian America Media Fest) (2013,USA)
The 17th Busan International Film Festival (2012,Korea)
Odessa International Film Festival

In 1948, as the government issued the communists’ eviction to the Jeju Island, the military invaded a calm and peaceful village. Running away from the military, the townsfolk get into the cave. They try to hide to survive but there seems no hope like the dark cave. As time goes by, people are suffering from severe cold and hunger staying in the cave.

One day, it still seems nothing changed. And a man who worries about his pigs at home, is trying to get back home to feed them but the rest strictly stop him. With nothing but frustration, people start fall apart debating if they should move to the higher mountain or just stay in the cave.

There is one incident that exists in this Jeju Island, consciously and unconsciously in peoples’ heart. Jeju 4.3 Incident; it was the story that I have tried to ignore. However, I realized that the event was something I can’t avoid through my life like meeting my parents when I get back to the hometown. The Jeju 4.3 Incident was natural encounter for me. Still, there are lots of hidden stories and they could be vanishing someday by people who want to forget. This story could be the same. Telling this story about the people who lived here in Jeju Island and tried to survive in the dark and cold cave, I wanted to soothe the pain deep inside our heart living the present time and the dead souls by Jeju 4.3 Incident. And I wanted to let people know and share that this event is the assignment for this society not for just one individual and that this is the one we need to solve in life.

- O Muel