Festival

A novelist lives in the city. His new book is waiting to be published. It is a fairytale drawn from his own mother. The mother is past eighty and living with dementia. One day word comes that she has died. The writer returns to her village. Preparations for the funeral begin. Relatives gather for it. The preparations go on for days. The writer meets his family again. Old matters open up at that gathering. Mourning and ordinary life run into each other. The title of the film comes from that overlap. The film shows death as a collective event. Ahn Sung-ki and Oh Jung-hae appear in the one hundred seven minute film, a South Korean production Im Kwon-taek finished in 1996.