Butch Up!
South Korea, 2022
Directed by
Lee Yu-jin
Lee Yu-jin
Running time
12 mins
12 mins
Mi-hae, the lead vocalist in a band, has just been dumped by her girlfriend and band. Miserable, she cannot get herself to sing her old band’s most popular hit, Oppa’s Girl, but then she meets Chaechae, a transgender TV celebrity.
Director Bio
Born in 1991, Lee Yu-jin majored in film directing in Korea National University of Arts. In 2020, her first short film, A GOOD MOTHER, became the most talked about queer film of the year in Korea. Lee has been working on projects of various genres with LGBTQ+ themes. BUTCH UP! is her third short film.
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