The Sonje Award is given to exceptional Korean and Asian short films in Wide Angle Competition. Each winner is awarded KRW 10,000,000 as funding for their next production.
TOE’S reveals the structures of exploitation and suffering in our society with sharp insight and symbolism. Delivering an engaging narrative, a rich blend of humor and emotional resonance, along with profound questions, it is a truly distinctive and standout short feature film.
For its tender portrait of a young woman navigating the boundaries between the life she is given by society and the life she quietly imagines, finding in a fleeting smile the beauty of a freedom not yet fully hers.
For its poetic imagination and distinctive cinematic language, this film transforms a boy's loneliness into an otherworldly universe, where even gravity becomes an act of longing.