The Daughter

Three years since Korean society was first rocked by the MeToo movement, how much has changed? As the title suggests, #AfterMeToo tackles the activism and resistance that remained after the initial Me Too fever cooled. This anthology documentary ties together four shorts, dealing with the ‘School Me Too’ movement amongst teenagers, the fallout of the Me Too movement in the art world, confessions surrounding sexual trauma from long ago and its respective healing process, and the sexual self-determination of women.

A high school girl, Man-bok, who has to walk for four hours every day back and forth between home and her school due to the congenital motion sickness disorder, happens to begin her training as a speed walking athlete unexpectedly. Through the cooperative training with her friend Soo-ji, whom she meets in the school track and field team, Man-bok discovers her path of life in this heartwarming and touching story.

Neighbors quarrel over land. A mother and daughter's bizarre relationship. A bizarre encounter between a desolate young man and a monster. The struggle of a father who intuited the grim future of his son's generation. An unstable society, a fantastic thriller that summons anxious people.

A suspicious taxi is driving on a night road... navigator said: "You're off course" "Mind if I take you home?" An unidentified patient talking to 'Mi Sook' living in a nursing home, "Please take care of my Soyeon". Uncanny and odd English tutoring, a little girl observed in the warehouse... And the mysterious events are happening. The bizarre things that happen inside the house while organizing her mother's belongings. The spine-chilling horror that you can feel even when you close your eyes and cover your ears. The real-life horror ghost story bundles at home, taxi, work, and nursing home. We invite you to five eerie and strange stories.

Mioka, a Korean-American adoptee, has attempted to find her birth family multiple times but failed. During her journey, she discovers ‘Banet,‘ a group of Korean women who help adoptees find and reunite with their birth families. Banet supports Mioka in finding her family based on her adoption documents, and as the journey goes on, they figure out that there is a chance that the documents were fabricated.

Why is there a wedding anniversary and no divorce anniversary? My parents divorced after 15 years of marriage. 2020 marks the 15th year since their divorce. The daughters want to throw their mother a fancy party to celebrate her 15th anniversary of divorce.

To feminists of all generations - is life treating you well?

People struggle living lives because of money, but for soon-a, life was not tough to survive. It was because soon-a received sufficient pocket money from her father every moth. She felt guilty of having a financial support from family even as an adult. therefore, soon-a got a part time job to earn money by her own effort. She realized that life is not easy thing without any aid. Now soon-a starts to concern of "What could I do if my father died?".

A stranger makes one suggestion to Misuk, whose wish is to return home from a nursing home. If Misuk brings a young person’s hair, she will send Misuk home.

During the Chuseok holiday, married friend Dajeong visits Young who lives alone. Dajeong had a fight with her husband about which family to visit first during the holidays. Swamped with work, freelancer Young asks Dajeong to return home.