The time of Jeju

2025

KIM Da-woon | 2025 | Documentary | Color | DCP | 110min (E) World Premiere

TIME TABLE
SYNOPSIS

Jeju authorities felled about 900 cedar trees on Bijarim-ro for a road expansion project. Citizens exposed the project's flawed environmental impact assessment, leading to its suspension. They continued efforts to protect Seongsan, slated for the second airport, and Bijarim-ro. This documentary follows the journeys of five women involved in this movement.

DIRECTING INTENTION

Amid the turmoil of repeated suspensions and resumptions of the Bijarim-ro expansion project, the film follows the daily lives of 30-something Jeju residents, centered around the ‘Citizens’ Group Trying to Do Something,’ who have rooted themselves in Jeju. Having settled in Jeju for different reasons, they navigate both inside and outside the system, confronting anxieties. The networks of relationships and collective actions they create in their respective positions raise questions about the structural issues we face today—development, ecology, and the dignity of life.

FESTIVAL & AWARDS

World Premiere

DIRECTOR
KIM Da-woon

KIM Da-woon

2023 This is the Forest Where We Live

STAFF

Director KIM Da-woon
Production Culture Space Yang
Producer KIM Youn-joo
Cinematographer LEE Yun-tack, KIM Da-woon
Editor KIM Da-woon
Music KIM Dong-wook , JEONG Ye-Ji, JIN Sa-ron
Recording KIM Hyejeong
Cast KANG Da-mi, KIM Hyeon-ji, EUN Young, LEE Yu-jin, HYUN Sung-mi