Merely Known as Something Else

Jo Heeyoung / Korea

Screening

Institut français Barcelona

06-11-2025 / 18:00 h.

Film Information

Year: 2024

Duration: 120'

Language: VOSE

Genre: Drama

Synopsis

Soojin, Inju, and Yoojung each have unique connections with Jungho. In the wake of his sudden disappearance, the lives of these three women unravel and intertwine. Soojin, Jungho’s current girlfriend, is having an affair with Hoonsung. Inju, who secretly admires Jungho, discovers she may have a terminal illness which prompts her to confess her feelings. Yoojung, Jungho’s ex-girlfriend, struggles with unresolved guilt over Jungho’s past suicide attempt, causing dissonance in her current relationship with Wooseok

Director

Jo Heeyoung is a South Korean filmmaker that began her career directing short films such as Memory Under Memory (2018), Two Water and a Lighter (2020), and The Owners (2022), all screened at the Seoul Independent Film Festival. Her feature debut, The Continuing Land (2022), was selected for the Vision section of the Busan International Film Festival. In 2024, she returned to Busan with her second feature, Merely Known as Something Else.