서울국제여성영화제

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Portal Pari

Soyoung Kim

South Korea
2026
8min
12 +
DCP
color

World Premiere

Synopsis

Amidst the epoch of necrocene, non-human actors—the archaic women of the waters—converge upon the portal Pari in pursuit of the animating elixir.

Director's Statement

Ever since the days of Bariteo, the women's visual media collective, Baridegi has always been in my heart. I wanted to take the tale of Baridegi—the abandoned girl who journeys toward another world in search of the water of life, laboring alongside Mujangsaeng and giving birth to children in an interspecies symbiosis—and, borrowing the power of AI imagery, turn it into a speculative narrative. This is the birth story of Portal Pari.

Code	Time	Theater	Grade
Polemics Shorts 1048	2026-08-22 \| 18:30 - 19:39	MEGABOX Sinchon 4
Polemics Shorts 1095	2026-08-24 \| 17:30 - 18:39	MEGABOX Sinchon 8

Director

Soyoung Kim

Kim Soyoung’s cinematic practices materialize through the fiction film Kyoung (Viewfinder) (2009), alongside the Women's History Trilogy and the Exile Trilogy. Operating as a theorist of postcoloniality and gender, she has authored a rigorous corpus of bilingual texts. Her institutional affiliation includes serving as the Founding Program Director for the SIWFF, Co-programmer for the inaugural JEONJU IFF, and many others. She is a professor at the School of Film, TV & Multimedia, Korea National University of Arts.