ACF
Asian Cinema Fund
Asian Network of Documentary(AND) Fund
2019 Asian Network of Documentary (AND) Fund
LIST Letters to Buriram
| Category | BIFF Mecenat Fund |
|---|---|
| Project | Letters to Buriram |
| Director | OH Minwook |
| Country | Korea |
| Director's Profile | Capitalism and the Cold War, cities and development. What is included and what is excluded along the edge of these concepts? That is what I am questioning through this documentary. Works on the June Democracy Movement, the Busan American Cultural Service building arson, the rocks that formed during the Cretaceous period, the military camp town in Busan, and the Geochang massacre are the results of my pondering. |
- Synopsis
- On September 26, 1958, cannonballs fell like rain into the strait between China and Taiwan. That night, Byung-woo Choi, a journalist from Hankook Ilbo, disappeared into the strait. Why did he end his life in this strait so far away from home? Fifty eight years later in 2016, I met Hsiao Kaitzu in Tainan, the opposite side of the strait where journalist Byung-woo Choi had disappeared in. Two years later on February 6, 2018, an earthquake occurred in Hualian. This earthquake reminds Hsiao of the fear she felt from the Tainan earthquake exactly two years ago, and she thinks of her mother who lives in Buriram, Thailand. She begins to write a letter to her mother about her apprehension and longing.
- Director's Note
- Along with the end of World War II, a civil war broke out in East Asia. This civil war continues to advance without any declaration of an end. China reveals their ambition to occupy Taiwan, and chaos breaks out between North and South Korea as well, following the Panmunjom Declaration. Only the battle has ceased, and the two countries continue to be in an odd situation. We call this odd situation “peace”. The regions that the Taiwan Strait and Korea Strait flow through are under this odd peace, where the citizens live through all sorts of apprehension. This apprehension is the source of group consciousness that can be seen at Kinmen, the borderland, Busan, the capitalistic city, as well as Kyoto, the core of Japanese culture. The documentary Letters to Buriram illustrates these odd sights and stories through the image of a daughter sending a letter to her mother across East Asia.
- Festivals
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2019 Busan International Film Festival - Wide Angle_Documentary Competition
2019 Seoul Independent Film Festival
2019 Busan Independent Film Festival
2020 Seoul Independent Documentary Film Festival
- Still Cut
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