Director Jin Mi-song, left, poses with other participants of the La Cinef section of this year's Cannes Film Festival in this photo taken from the festival's website, Friday. Yonhap
"Silent Voices" by Korea's Jin Mi-song has won Second Prize in the La Cinef section for student films at this year's Cannes Film Festival, organizers said Friday.
The 17-minute film follows a day in the life of a family who settled in New York after immigrating to the United States from Korea. It delicately portrays how the parents and their two daughters quietly hide their emotions after their different daily struggles.
Lucas Acher's "Laser-Cat" won First Prize, while Third Prize jointly went to Julius Lagoutte Larsen's "Never Enough," and Roozbeh Gezerseh and Soraya Shamsi's "Growing Stones, Flying Papers," according to the organizers.
Jin said she did not expect the win, thanking the jury for recognizing the genuineness of her work, and the cast and crew who took part in "Silent Voices."
