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DIRECTOR: SEUNGHWAN KIM
RUNTIME: 24 MIN
GENRE: DRAMA
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4TH 2021
ASIAN CIRCLE, 4:30PM
LOCATION: STUART CINEMA
LOGLINE: Young-eun returns to Jeju for her mother’s death anniversary and meets her old friend Seung-hwan on a beach where he is beachcombing.
SYNOPSIS: The main character, Young-eun, lives with her mother, a haenyeo(female divers in the Korean province of Jeju island) diver, in a smal fishing village on Jeju Island. Young-eun, lives an ordinary life until she begins to learn photography from her old friend Seung-hwan. Young-eun uses an eco-friendly photo-development method that uses coffee powder, washing soda, vitamin C powder and seawater instead of conventional film developing chemicals. Young-eun‘s mother has been diving for decades, but recently the amount of conch and sea urchins in the sea have declined; so, she starts diving even during rough weather.