- Overview
- 2013 Film and Public Schedule
- Films A-Z
- Films by Director
- Films by Strand
- Films by Country
- Short Doc Programmes
- Howard Street Screen
- Mobile Homestead
- Shohei Imamura Retrospective
- The Special Jury Award
- The Sheffield Innovation Award
- The Sheffield Green Award
- The Sheffield Youth Jury Award
- The Sheffield Student Doc Award
- The Sheffield Short Doc Award
- The Sheffield Doc/Fest Audience Award
- The Sheffield Inspiration Award
- The Tim Hetherington Award presented by Doc/Fest and Dogwoof
- AWFJ Award
- Videotheque
Planet of Snail
Young-Chan is a dreamer, who spends most of his life reading and writing. Deaf and blind since childhood, Young-Chan’s fingertips constantly skim his braille keyboard, through which he studies and exercises his literary ambitions. His lifeline to the outside world is his wife Soon-Ho. Afflicted with a disability herself – a spinal deformity which make her half his height – they are very much in love. In rising star Seungjun Yi’s sensuous feature, the camera lingers on the richly textured life that this unusual couple has forged together. Their friends look on them with envy, an understandable emotion when watching the couple’s openness to sensual experience of all kinds – from tree hugging, to kite flying to winter tubing, to the more mundane task of changing a light bulb. Young-Chan’s incisive metaphors provide a worthy literary soundtrack to a film which manages to be life affirming without being sentimental.
Strands
- Official Website:
- www.planetofsnail.com
- Festivals:
- IDFA 2011
Credits
- Co-Producer:
- Janne Niskala
- Editor:
- Simon El Habre
Director Filmography
- 2008, Children of God
- 2007, Like Wildflowers, Two Women’s Story
- 2002, Breathing, in a Wasteland
Contact
Oli Harbottle
Head of Distribution
Dogwoof
oli@dogwoof.com
+44 2078317252
Screening
14 Jun 12:45
- Showroom 2
- ( Seats)
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