House of Hummingbird (2018)

Year: 2018 Director: Kim Bo Ra Runtime: 138 min Country: South Korea, USA Language: Korean with English and Chinese subtitles Rating: M18 Synopsis House of Hummingbird is a coming-of-age drama centered on the quiet, unexceptional eighth-grader Eunhee. It is 1994 in Seoul. The South is in the grips of World Cup fever, while the North mourns its recently-deceased dictator. Euhee registers all of this only in passing. Drifting through her days, she feels like an outsider everywhere: at school, where she struggles to find meaning in the friendship of her peers, and at home, where family life consists of putting up with her parents’ constant quarreling and her brother’s bullying. Yet, through it all, nothing really moves her— that is, until she encounters her cram school’s new Chinese tutor and, with unexpected intensity, an unlikely friendship develops between them.