My Mother, the Mermaid

Na-young doesn´t have a good relationship with both of her parents. She lives in a different town, works in a post office and wishes to travel abroad. One day, she gets to know that her father is lost and nobody knows where he could be. Na -young immedietely travels back home to search for her father and there she meets a very unexpected person. Some sort of family comedy focused on relationship between parents and their children Director Park Heung-shik creates a tone that deftly mixes aching romantic yearning with magical realism to produce something beyond reality, yet it feels absolutely authentic. Not to mention heartbreaking. Film was awarded with several awards for astonishing lead performance of Jeon Do-yeon.

Park Heung-shik was born in 1965. He graduated from Yonsei University, Majored in Astronomy and from Korean Academy of Film Arts. He made several shorts. My Mother, the Maremaid is his feature debut.