My Niagara
Helen LEE
- United States, Canada
- 1992
- 39min
- 19 +
- DCP
- color
Synopsis
Shadowed by the death of her mother, Julie Kumagai's life with her widower father is marked by pained, turbulent exchanges. Indifferent to a break-up with her boyfriend and the lure of a long-planned trip, she finds some refuge in her workplace where meets Tetsuro, a young Korean man newly emigrated from Japan who is obsessed with all things American. But together they discover no easy resolutions.
schedule
| Code | Time | Theater | Grade | |
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| Helen Lee: Between Here and Elsewhere Shorts 1 | 2025-08-23 | 20:30 - 22:16 | MEGABOX Sinchon 5 |   |
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Director
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Helen LEEHelen Lee (b. 1965, Seoul) holds degrees from the University of Toronto (BA), New York University (MA), and York University (MA), and completed programs at the Whitney Independent Study Program and the Canadian Film Centre. Her work has screened at major festivals, including Toronto, Busan, Clermont-Ferrand, Oberhausen, Sydney, Singapore, Fukuoka, Chicago, and Thessaloniki. Retrospectives of her films have been held at Pleasure Dome (Toronto), Arsenal (Berlin), and the Taipei Film Archive.