18 minutes. One phone call. You'll need to sit with this one.
Jae-in ("JANE"), a counselor for an anti-suicide hotline, is smitten with Jon-young, a man she befriended on Facebook. But there are parallels between him and a clinically depressed man who calls her hotline.
Acting
Hong Se Young's face when she realizes — devastating restraint.
Direction
Godwin turns a desk and headset into claustrophobic horror.
Writing
The Facebook/phone call parallel — cruel, elegant structure.
Director
Andhika Godwin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
South Korea has the highest suicide rate among OECD nations; this short emerged from a wave of indie cinema confronting the crisis directly. The hotline setting isn't metaphor—it's documentary-adjacent.
Godwin shot this in actual single takes for the phone conversations, forcing Hong to sustain emotional revelation without cuts. Her real-time unraveling is unperformable without that pressure.
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