Director of Photography
In the ranks of the Japanese army during WWII, there existed what was known as comfort women. In the present, that term was replaced by a definition that is closer to reality—they were women who had been kidnapped and turned into sex slaves. After a long period of humiliation, the victims remained quiet, but some of them built up the courage to write about their ordeals in a series of letters. Cecilia Kang’s new documentary recovers those testimonies in order to talk about the way in which History and social mandates affect the lives of Korean women in Argentina, from the perspective of a young acting student who, after coming into contact with this correspondence, allows herself to reflect on the community she lives in and understand more about the traditions of her people as well as her own family history.
Assistant Camera
아르헨티나 북부 코리엔테스 지방, 라스밀(Las Mil)이라는 작은 마을을 배경으로 펼쳐지는 우정, 사랑, 힘의 관계를 보여준다. 감독은 영화 배경이 되는 지역의 역사나 정치적 상황을 전면에 드러내거나 일절 설명하지 않는다. 하지만 부재를 통해 실제 부재했던 힘을 묘사하는 방식으로, 영화 속에 어떤 공적인 힘도 등장하지 않게 함으로써 실제 정치권력이 수년간 주민들을 방치한 결과를 약물과 빈곤을 통해 드러낸다. 시나리오는 지방 생활의 관습을 보여주는 많은 이야기 속에서 이리스와 레나타 사이의 사랑 이야기를 탄생시킨다.
Assistant Camera
Ulysses is a hundred-year-old man, he lives alone and is on the verge of death. The last night of his life, he will experience something that will force him to rethink his past, his present and his sight about his reality. Tortured by remorse of guilt, confused by his senile dementia, he must make a last effort to reach his death in freedom or to become a soul in sorrow in eternal return.
