Film | 00:05:16 | 2026

A bride spends her entire wedding day with her face hidden behind a fan. That night, left alone in her new husband’s house, she kneels before a brass basin to see the face she has kept hidden all day. In the black water, her face slowly begins to disappear.

Seunghyun Lee was born in Gwangju, South Korea. First Night is the director’s first AI film. The earlier short The Tardy was screened in the Gwangju New Films section of the 12th Gwangju Independent Film Festival and won the Special Jury Award in the Youth section of the 7th Chungju Short Film Festival. A graduate of the Department of Film at Chung-Ang University, the director is currently studying film at the Graduate School of Advanced Imaging Science, Chung-Ang University.