MAIFF 2026  -

KFFC

The Final Semester

June 9

Cinema Moderne

Fiction

105

minutes

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About the Film

Director

Lee Ran-Hee

Country

South Korea

Year

2025

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Description

Chang-woo, a senior at a vocational high school, wants to be recognized by his mother as a good son. He starts field training at a subcontractor for a large company, hoping to solve the problems of getting into college or finding decent employment. While learning about work and human relations from his senior workers, Chang-woo finds himself siding with the non-contract staff, and fails to get into college, secure a job, or deal with the problem of his military service. However, Chang-woo eventually finds a job that he likes and develops a sense of pride in his work. He moves out of his mother’s home in search of a new life

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About the Director
Lee Ran-Hee
Director
Born in 1971, LEE Ran-hee studied English language and literature and was a member of the theatre company Han River from 1996 to 2004, both as an actor and as a planner. She made her first appearance in a film the Korean War-set drama <Welcome To Dongmakgol> (2005) and was also seen in the award-winning indie film <Daytime Drinking> (2009), of which she was also the first assistant director, and in a segment of the anthology <If You Were Me 6> (2013). She even made a cameo in the critically acclaimed and hit period drama <Masquerade> (2012). Nevertheless, it is behind the camera that she earned most of her repute. Her first short film as a director, <A Perm> (2009), was screened in Berlin and Busan, and later the short <A Tent> (2016) premiered at the Jeonju International Film Festival. LEE’s first feature film <A Leave> (2020) was selected by the Seoul Independent Film Festival and the Busan International Film Festival.
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