Motherland Memories (2022)
장르 : 다큐멘터리
상영시간 : 1시간 4분
연출 : Moses Parlindungan O.
시놉시스
Ompung Putra Boru, a sixties indigenous Batak woman from Humbang Hasundutan, North Sumatra, retraces her life stories through photographs that interweave her past and present as a wife, mother, healer and indigenous land defender in two neighboring villages. Her multi-layered stories are juxtaposed with visual records of everyday life in the two villages, where people’s living space is still increasingly threatened by a giant pulp expansion.
1964년 아일랜드의 시골마을, 네 명의 여성이 교회와 가족으로부터 버림받고 잔혹하고 비인간적인 막달레나 수녀원으로 보내진다. 그곳에서 그들은 자신의 죄를 참회할 것을 강요 당한다. 하지만 그들의 죄라는 것은 미혼모거나 너무 예쁘거나 못생겼다는 것, 너무 똑똑하거나 멍청하다는 것, 순결을 잃어버린 강간의 희생자라는 어불성설의 것들이다. 그들은 죄 값을 치러야 한다는 이유만으로 비인간적이며 부당한 노동을 강요 당한다. 소녀들은 재치를 발휘하여 위협으로부터 잠시 벗어나지만, 과연 노예와 별반 다르지 않은 상황에서 모든 것을 이겨낼 수 있을지는 의문이다. 분노와 절망 속에서 그들은 마침내 탈출을 꿈꾼다.
한 남자의 아내이자 두 아이의 엄마로 영국에서 평범한 삶을 살던 아웅 산 수 치는 위독한 어머니의 병간호를 위해 미얀마로 돌아간다. 하지만 오랜만에 찾은 고국에서 자유를 탄압받고 있는 끔찍한 상황을 목격하게 되고, 자신을 지지하는 국민들의 바람을 받아들여 아버지가 못다 이룬 조국의 민주화를 실현시키기로 결심한다. 그러나 독재적인 군사정권에 의해 오히려 가택연금을 당하는 신세가 된다. 외부와 차단된 길고 외로운 나날이 계속되던 그녀에게 남편이 암에 걸려 죽음을 앞두고 있다는 소식이 전해진다. 그녀만을 바라보며 희망을 보는 국민들과 사랑하는 남편의 마지막 모습, 둘 중에 하나만 선택해야 하는 가혹한 현실 앞에서 지금껏 꿋꿋하게 잘 버텨왔던 그녀의 마음이 처음으로 흔들리기 시작하는데……
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