Winning at a huge list of film festivals
including Cannes, Busan, Seoul GLBT
and Asiana International Short Film Festival, Neighbours features Park Hee-von
starring as Su-yeon a lowly community
officer. Her office have created a creative writing contest called the “Neighbours Story”and with so many entries
the job of reading through all submissions and choosing a winner has fallen
onto Su-yeon. She has one night to get
through all the entries so a local public
servant,Tae-jun, who has a crush on Su-yeon, decides to stay behind and help.
Thanks to an energy conservation cam-
paign the two have to read the stories
under lantern light and they discover all
the stories about neglected neighbours
they had no idea existed.

Neighbours is directed by three separate filmmakers in collaboration, all
award winning short filmmakers. Kim
Hee-jin whose admirers include Gyeo-
ngju director Zhang Lu has previously
directed the short film A Brand New
Journey which won top prizes at the
Asiana Awards and Jeonju Film Festival and is currently screenwriting for
director Chung Ji-woo (Eungyo). Son
Tae-gyum is famous for his series of
short films based on a bestselling comic
called Incomplete Life while Shin So-joeng, the youngest of the three, has won
awards for best directed and best actress at the Sapporo International Short
Film Festival.