BEYOND DISTANCING

Director

김정근

Country

한국

Year

2017

Runtime

17분

Omar, told on his very first day of work that his start date has been postponed. Adnan, unexpectedly cast in an indie film. Askha, a "refugee kickboxer" facing his first match in Korea. A film about one precious — perhaps seemingly ordinary — day in the lives of three Yemeni asylum seekers on Jeju Island.

Director

양재영

Country

한국

Year

2019

Runtime

69분

Ghana Joti Srama and Mukta Chakma, a couple from Bangladesh’s indigenous Jumma people, live quietly in South Korea on daily wages. When violence breaks out far away in their homeland, they join other Jumma people at rallies, their calm daily lives shadowed by a distant but ever-present grief.

Director

채의석

Country

한국

Year

2017

Runtime

70분

"A" is a refugee who fled Pakistan — a country scarred by Sunni-Shia conflict, Taliban armed struggle, and the Balochistan crisis. Recognized as a refugee in South Korea, he lives here — yet his face never appears on screen. Only his voice drifts through the space.

Director

폴 우 (Paul Wu)

Country

유엔난민기구

Year

2020

The story of Jamila and Ismail, Iraqi internally displaced persons forced to start new lives in a refugee camp. Narrated by UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Jung Woo-sung, with on-the-ground documentation by protection officer Kim Ha-young.

Director

폴 우 (Paul Wu)

Country

유엔난민기구

Year

2019

Runtime

23분

Nine-year-old Hoda, a deaf girl living in the Hassan Sham camp in Iraqi Kurdistan. Director Paul Wu returns to the camp to explore the desperate situation of Hoda and other displaced persons with disabilities — people left even further behind by aid and support systems.

Director

폴 우 (Paul Wu)

Country

유엔난민기구

Year

2017

Runtime

20분

In Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley, home to over a million Syrian refugees created by the civil war, UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Jung Woo-sung follows the story of Hassan — once a pastry chef in Aleppo — and his wife Zurie and their family as they speak calmly about their situation and their uncertain future.

Director

폴 우 (Paul Wu)

Country

유엔난민기구

Year

2019

Runtime

32분

In the spring of 2018, around 500 Yemeni refugees arrived on Jeju Island, South Korea, having fled their war-devastated homeland. The film traces their long journey — from Yemen to Djibouti, from Djibouti to Malaysia, and finally to Korea — the story of people who gave up everything in search of safety.