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In the wake of a scandal involving several of her students, Jeonim (Kim Min-hee), an artist and lecturer at a women’s university, asks her uncle Chu Sieon (Kwon Hae-hyo) to step in and direct a short play for the skit festival put on by her department. Her uncle is an actor-director, recently blacklisted after a scandal of his own. He decides to direct the short play because of a similar experience directing a play at the same university 40 years earlier.

It doesn’t take long before Sieon develops feelings for Jeonim’s colleague, Professor Jeong (Cho Yunhee), a textile professor. Meanwhile, the circumstances surrounding the scandal grow more complicated, the moon waxes in the sky each night, and every morning Jeonim goes to the stream and sketches to grasp its patterns.

— Cinema Guild

One year on from our first new release screening with Hong Sang-soo’s A Traveler’s Needs, we’re thrilled to say we’re running it back with Hong’s other film from 2024, By the Stream! Receiving a limited theatrical run in late 2025, this is the Virginia debut of Hong’s 32nd film.

As always, we’d like to thank our friends at Cinema Guild for their help in bringing this film to Richmond!

— Jay Wilson, Hard Light Cinema