Pascha

Ahn Seong-kyoung : 2013

Gaeul is forty-something and a screenwriter. She is vegetarian, a cat owner who feeds the neighbourhood strays, and is living with her 17-year-old lover. Joseph, her boyfriend, is a high school dropout who works in a dead-end job for a delivery service. They choose to live an unconventional life and despite being social outcasts and broke, they have found true happiness together. But the lovers face opposition from a society that pushes them to eat meat, to find someone who suits your age and to generally conform. An unplanned pregnancy and a resulting abortion almost undoes the lovers. Their courage is constantly put to the test: standing against such a world, there are just too many things for them to fight against. A finely observed study of forbidden love and of choices made in the face of overwhelming opposition. Ahn Seong-kyoung's film, her second feature, was winner of the New Currents Award at Busan International Film Festival 2013.