Elbowroom

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• Movie: elbowroom
• Revised romanization: Soom
• Hangul: 숨
• Director: Ham Kyoung-Rock
• Writer: Ham Kyoung-Rock
• Producer:
• Cinematographer:
• Release Date: September 1, 2011
• Runtime: 106 min.
• Language: Korean
• Country: South Korea

Plot

When Su-Hee (Park Ji-Won) was 5-years-old she was abandoned by her mother and left to live in a Christian run institution for the disabled. Su-Hee is physically disabled. She has lived in the institution all her life and is now a young adult. Su-Hee meets a man named Min-Soo who also lives in the institution and is disabled. They shared a close bond and fall in love. Su-Hee and Min-Soo have their own secret room where they spend time together. The couple also have sex there.

One day In the bathroom, a volunteer notices Su-Hee's swollen stomach and realizes she is pregnant. Everything will change for Su-Hee. Welfare authorities assume Su-Hee was raped and she is taken away to live in another shelter for young women. Su-Hee feels uncomfortable surrounded by non-disabled teens and feels loneliness ...

Notes

1. Korean title "숨," which is pronounced "soom," means literally "breathe".

Cast

• Park Ji-Won - Su-Hee
• Sin Yeon-Sook
• Lee Won-Seop
• Hong Suk-Youn

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Film Festivals

• 2010 (39th) International Film Festival Rotterdam - January 27th-Feb. 7th - Bright Future * World Premiere
• 2010 (11th) Jeonju International Film Festival - April 29-May 7 - Cinemascape: Feature Films
• 2010 (4th) Cinema Digital Seoul Film Festival - August 18-24 - Butterfly
• 2010 (5th) Korean Film Festival In Paris - November 9-November 16 - Feature Films

Awards

• Butterfly Award - 2010 (4th) Cinema Digital Seoul Film Festival - August 18-24

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