Sung-a Yoon

Sung-a Yoon

Birth : 1977-01-01, Seúl, Corea del Sur

History

Sung-A Yoon is a French cinematographer and artist born in South Korea and living in Brussels. She graduated from the National Superior School of Fine Arts of Paris-Cergy in 2005, and from the INSAS, a cinema school from Brussels, in 2008. Between 2001 and 2011, she directed ten short movies mostly shown in exhibitions. Switching to fiction, she finished her short movie And I'll Keep In My Heart in 2008, and it was selected for the Cannes Festival - cinéfondation, before traveling to a few international festivals. In 2012, she left to look for her dad, absent since her childhood, and ended up with her first documentary feature Full Of Missing Links, which traveled through festivals around the world. Overseas (2019) is her second documentary feature.

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Sung-a Yoon

Movies

Overseas
Overseas
Screenplay
In the Philippines, women get deployed abroad to work as domestic workers or nannies. In one of the many training centers dedicated to domestic work, a group of trainees are getting ready to face both homesickness and the possible abuses lying ahead during a series of role-playing exercises.
Overseas
Overseas
Director
In the Philippines, women get deployed abroad to work as domestic workers or nannies. In one of the many training centers dedicated to domestic work, a group of trainees are getting ready to face both homesickness and the possible abuses lying ahead during a series of role-playing exercises.
Full of Missing Links
Full of Missing Links
Director
A documentary revolving aroung a girl that travels to Korea to meet her biological parents and get to know the country.
The Dreamed Films
The Dreamed Films
Belgian filmmaker Eric Pauwels' meditation on dream, travel and film.