25th(2023)
Opening Film (1) | Discovery (12) |
Asian Shorts (20) | I-Teens (5) |
New Currents (25) | Korean Panorama, Here & Now (19) |
Polemics: Images, Describing to Resist (16) | Queer Rainbow (6) |
SIWFF 25 Special - RE:DISCOVER (7) | Feminist Collective (0) |
Women Making Art: Shouts and Whispers (9) | PARK Nam-ok's 100th Anniversary (5) |
In Memory of YOON Jeong-hee (2) | Documentary Ock Rang (1) |
Film X Gender (2) | Barrier Free (1) |
KWON Ohyeon, NAM Arum, TANZAWA Chifumi, NOKA Nana
Kitty and Tommy live in Korea, Mia and Emma in Japan. COVID-19 prevents them from meeting in person. However, they form a special friendship through video calls, AR avatars, and an automatic translation function on chat apps. Through screens, they teleport into each other¡¯s lives, transcending language and distance.
Nothing is unreachable if the mind is open. Teleporting pleasantly and delightfully draws the daily lives of Korean and Japanese women who constantly communicate in the virtual world of the Internet in the era of the pandemic. Although their lifestyles and personalities differ, the discrimination and fear they have experienced as Asian women who live in the same period intersect. It is also notable that the film not only points out bias but stands out for its attempt to strengthen solidarity beyond physical barriers. [KIM Jung-eun ]
KWON OhyeonKWON Ohyeon
Born in Seoul, South Korea in 1995. She is studying documentary film at the Korean National University of Arts. She became documentary filmmaker after the feminism reboot after #Me_Too movement. Queer feminism is the aesthetic and practical method of her documentary works.
NAM ArumNAM Arum
A documentary director based in Seoul, South Korea. She is doing a master's degree in documentary at the Korea National University of Arts. Her previous short documentary, Pink-Femi (2018), was screened at several film festivals. Her first feature film Patriot Girl is on the production stage.
TANZAWA ChifumiTANZAWA Chifumi
Born in Yamanashi, Japan in 1999. She studied cultural studies at university and made her first film about sexual violence in Japan. Issues that she is concerned about involve human rights, especially gender discrimination.
NOKA NanaNOKA Nana
Born in Toyama, Japan, in 1998. Nana studied Cultural studies at university and wrote a graduation thesis about Japanese-Korean politics and K-POP. She is interested in politics, K-POP, feminism, lookism and religions. She is working in a commercial production company in Japan.