Co-directed by South Korean director Park Chan-wook and his brother Chan-kyong, "Night Fishing (Paranmanjang)" won the Golden Bear Award for best short film at the 61st Berlin International Film Festival, organizers said Sunday.
The movie, starring Oh Kwang-rok and Lee Jung-hyun, is about a man who transcends his current and former lives after catching a woman while fishing in a river in the middle of the night. The film was shot completely on an iPhone.
"The film we chose is nothing but a small miracle. Throughout the multi-layered original story of a simple man who is forced to confront his life and death through his shape-shifting, we experienced transformation, judgment and deep forgiveness," wrote the jury of the festival's Shorts Section on its Web site.
"This is the great imagination of an intimate cooperation between the Korean brothers Park Chan-wook and Park Chan-kyong."
Another South Korean director, Yang Hyo-joo, won the Jury Prize, or Silver Bear, with her short "Pu-Seo-Jin Bam (Broken Night)."
In the competition section, meanwhile, the Golden Bear Award for best film went to the Iranian film "Jodaeiye Nader az Simin (Nader And Simin, A Separation)" directed by Asghar Farhadi.
South Korea's "Come Rain, Come Shine" was invited into the competition section but failed to win a prize. (Yonhap)