Subrosa
Helen LEE
- Canada, South Korea
- 2000
- 23min
- 19 +
- DCP
- color
Synopsis
Subrosa traces a young woman's journey to Korea, the land of her birth, to find the mother she's never known. This exquisitely-crafted drama probes the idealized, often false constructions of cultural and material identities wrought by the adoptee's return.
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.