Paris to Pyongyang
Helen LEE
- Canada, South Korea
- 2024
- 32min
- 12 +
- DCP
- color, b&w
Synopsis
In the 1950s, a group of Parisian elites, led by experimental filmmaker Chris Marker and documentarian Claude Lanzmann, visit the newly formed DPRK (Democratic People's Republic of Korea). It is the communist state to which the director's grandmother had pledged allegiance during the Korean War. The film explores transnational identity and its ruptures from multiple perspectives, through the intersection of ciné-roman and diasporic essay film.
schedule
| Code | Time | Theater | Grade | |
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| Helen Lee: Between Here and Elsewhere Shorts 2 | 2025-08-24 | 16:00 - 17:31 | MEGABOX Sinchon 2 |   |
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| Helen Lee: Between Here and Elsewhere Shorts 2 | 2025-08-26 | 14:30 - 16:01 | MEGABOX Sinchon 4 | |
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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.