Films
3 films
#01Life on Foreign Land: Burmese in Japan
이국에 살다 — 일본 속의 버마인
- Director
- 도이 도시쿠니 (Doi Toshikuni)
- Country
- 일본
- Year
- 2012
- Runtime
- 100분
A film by Japanese director Doi Toshikuni, who spent 14 years accompanying Myanmar refugee Chaw with a camera. Separation from and reunion with family, the rigid walls of Japan’s refugee policy, a democracy struggle with no end in sight — within all of this, what does it truly mean to "live"?
#02Please Answer Me
대답해줘
- Director
- 김연실
- Country
- 대한민국
- Year
- 2015
- Runtime
- 75분
Three children born and raised in Korea — yet asked everywhere they go where they came from. Between Congo, their parents’ country, and South Korea, the country of their birth, the three children are searching for their own world. The first film to shed light on the lives of refugees in South Korea.
#03The Good Lie
뷰티풀 라이
- Director
- 필리프 팔라도 (Philippe Falardeau)
- Country
- 미국
- Year
- 2014
- Runtime
- 110분
Sudan, 1987. Five siblings who lose their parents to civil war make their way to a refugee camp in Kenya. Four survive thanks to the sacrifice of their eldest brother Theo, and 13 years later they are given the chance to resettle in America — helped by employment counselor Carrie as they adapt to an unfamiliar country. A film that illuminates how refugee resettlement programs work.