Urban Diary is an 18-minute and 28-second short film that Jonghoon and Kosan directed, based on a poem written by the high school student character, Min-hae. The story quietly observes the rhythms of a family’s daily life in the city: a stay-at-home father, a mother who teaches at a private after-school academy, and their teenage daughter, Min-hae. One day, when the father begins working again, Min-hae is left alone at home—a shift that quietly unveils her fear of abandonment and the weight of loneliness. The film transforms Min-hae’s written poem into moving images, interpreting her emotional landscape where absence feels like death, and a quiet house becomes a place haunted by what is no longer present. Through subtle gestures and mundane routines, the film explores grief, routine, and the fragility of family connection in modern urban life.
Urban Diary
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When a high school girl is left alone in her apartment after her stay-at-home father returns to work, her quiet routine unravels into a haunting meditation on absence, loneliness, and the fragile rhythms of family life in the city.
