Birthday Boy

This evocative animation follows a solitary boy around his nearly deserted village during the Korean War in 1951.

Playing among ruins, forging new toys and acting out his fantasy of being a soldier, little Manuk is completely caught up in his own world and oblivious to the realities of the war around him. When Manuk mistakes a parcel found on his doorstep for a birthday present, what he finds within lays bare - to the audience at least - the terrible price of war.