Na Young-kil

A man wakes up, hearing a knock on the door. Something familiar is wrongly connected. When he opens the door, the light in the bathroom is turned on. When he turns on the light of the bathroom, the television is turned on.

Hosanna is an ancient cry of jubilation and entreaty, which according to the New Testament, was used by the crowds greeting Jesus when he rode into Jerusalem on a donkey. In a remote village in Korea lives a boy with the power to heal. He can resurrect the dead. And that is exactly what he does. Curing people of death, he gives them back life. However, the new life doesn’t cure them, on the contrary. Rejecting the chance proffered by rebirth, the fighting, killing and murder continue. They punish, spit upon and antagonise the boy. Refusing to be deterred, he goes his own way. The boy and the villagers move about in rigorously framed shots, practically devoid of emotion. There is no cry of jubilation.

Sang-yun, a boy who lives alone in the same village, visits Pastor Kang, who is carrying the funeral of his only son, “Mit-eum,” who has been brutally murdered by someone.