After a few months of social adjustment training, the North Korean refugee Jina moves to a small flat in Seoul and starts her new life. To bring her father to South Korea, she needs money but no matter how hard she works, the discrimination doesn't let her save enough money. One day the broker introduces her to a boxing gym cleaning job. Seeing young and confident female boxers, Jina feels something burning inside.

The film FIGHTER is a story about a woman. It is a narration about searching for her values and identity, in between harsh conditions and the confrontation with the reality that’s given to her. If you expand the message that this film implies a little bit more, it would be forgiveness, courage and reconciliation.
While shooting this film, I thought about what Thomas Merton said: "LOVE IS OUR TRUE DESTINY. WE DO NOT FIND THE MEANING OF LIFE BY OURSELVES ALONE. WE FIND IT WITH ANOTHER."

2020 제25회 부산국제영화제