FILMS > FEATURE
2022, Color, 80'39", Live Action |
Dir: CHOI Chang-hwan |
Keyword: Drama, Romance, Omnibus, Family | Release: 2023-03-29 |
A flight departing from Incheon to New
York JFK is cancelled due to engine problems. The passengers bound to the
replacement flight following day are staying at a layover hotel provided by the
airline.
During the unexpected stay at the same
hotel, they experience anything but expected – a surprising encounter, unwanted
cutoff of a relationship, and so on. This is a story of three lives, which look
back on their own past during the temporary overnight stay.
What is a layover? That refers to a temporary stay.
An unexpected night at a layover hotel
is like a reflection from human life in general.
That is a metaphor to life of human
being.
Everyone plans their own life. There are
long-term plans for important future life events as well as brief and
short-term plans. Nevertheless, it does not take long before we learn that life
does not go on as planned like a building is finished as the floor plan or
blueprint has indicated.
2008 [Life on Call] 28min.
34th Seoul Independent Film Festival(2008,Korea)
10th Dae-gu Short Film Festival(2009,Korea)
3rd Cinema Digital Seoul (2009, Korea)
14th Indieforum(2009, Korea)
2011 [Even no shadow], 36min
17th Indieforum(2012, Korea)
12th Daegu Short Film Festival(2011, Korea)
2018 [Back from the Beat] 67min
19th Jeonju International Film Festival, CGV Arthouse Award (2018, Korea)
13th The London Korean Film Festival (2018, UK)
18th JeonBuk Independent Film Festival(2018, Korea)
44th Seoul Independent Film Festival(2018, Korea)
2020 [Plant Cafe, Warmth] 75min
22th Jeonju International Film Festival, Korean cinema (2021. Korea)
2022 [The Layover] 81min
23th Jeonju International Film Festival, Korean cinema (2022. Korea)