Coincidences strike us unexpectedly and thicken into memory. Yul rescues a kitten at a stray cat feeding station in an apartment complex. Tracing circumstances of its abandonment leads her to climb the apartment fence for the first time. Beyond lies land where plump golden pears once ripened each autumn. Though massive apartments have risen and pear orchards vanished, she encounters the four seasons of lives still inhabiting this space. The film overlays urban landscapes, traces of pear trees, and cat movements in observational, poetic rhythms, revealing disappearing sense of place and subtle vitality.

* Each Critics’ Choice screening will be followed by a Critics’ Talk—a one-on-one conversation between the director and a critic. 

* Note: This talk will be conducted in Korean without interpretation.​ 

In Byeollae-dong, Namyangju—where the natural world collides with the frenzy of urban development—Yul, mostly confined to her apartment, takes in an abandoned kitten. Tracing the kitten’s past draws her beyond the fences of her home, where she spots a white cat and, almost entranced, follows it into an unfamiliar place. There, she encounters seven chickens and a lone pear tree. Director Shin Yul studies the living beings that shape our world with patient attention, urging us to rethink the human-centric scale by which we measure life. The slow inertia of a space shaped by quiet things opens our senses to vibrant lives we might otherwise overlook, while the diversity of nonhuman existence subtly reshapes the landscape of our daily world. The result is a quiet essay film that lets us glimpse the secluded worlds of trees, flowers, and insects—lives modest in scale yet expansive in meaning.

Two worlds, divided by a fence, share the same small space. From my apartment window, I see a feeding station for stray cats tucked into a corner. Beyond it lies a pear orchard. These quiet, steadfast presences often go unnoticed. And yet, on this single patch of earth, small lives still grow, and unlikely connections still form.

• Producer김수정 Kim Sujeong
• Cinematography 신율 SHIN Yul
• Edit 신율 SHIN Yul
• Sound 길민서 Kil Minseo
• Music 임영빈 Lim Youngvin

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