Director Jung Yu-mi’s ‘Glasses’, which is garnering attention for its invitation to the Cannes International Film Festival, and ‘Paranoid Kid’, which features Bae Doo-na as its narrator, will be exclusively released on the 11th in a continuous screening format at 31 Megabox branches nationwide.

‘Glasses’ was officially invited to the 2025 Cannes Film Festival Critics ‘Week Short Film Competition, and has garnered attention as the first Korean animation to be selected in that category.This work is a 15-minute animation that depicts the protagonist’s psychological journey of accepting himself while facing the shadows within himself, with delicate pencil drawings and restrained directing.

‘Paranoid Kid’, which will be screened together, is a 7-minute-long work based on the picture book of the same name written by director Jung Yu-mi herself, and is based on the inner diary written during 45 sleepless nights.This work depicts the quiet inner growth through the eyes of the character ‘Paranoid Kid’, who symbolizes modern people’s emotions such as anxiety, self-consciousness, and self-loathing, and is director Jung Yu-mi’s first color animation and first narration-based work.

In particular, actress Bae Doo-na participated in the narration and expressed the main character’s complex emotions in a restrained tone, and the anecdote where she briefly stopped recording because she was really emotional during the recording shows the work’s authenticity.It was also officially invited to the Zagreb International Animation Film Festival, one of the world’s top three animation film festivals, for its special section, ‘Time for the Masters’, and had its international premiere.

On June 12th, the day after the release, at 7:30 PM, a post-screening discussion program with the audience called ‘Mega Talk’ will be held at Megabox COEX.Director Jung Yu-mi and film critic Kim Hye-ri will attend the event and have an in-depth discussion about the artistic sense, production background, and inner character of the film.The talk will be held for approximately 30 minutes after the screening.

Director Jung Yu-mi said, “It is difficult to come across short films outside of film festivals, so I am happy that I have the opportunity to meet many audiences in theaters.I hope that the audience will have more special and precious moments in theaters.”


Reporter Seungmi smlee@donga.com

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