This Film starts with a diva of a tragic family history related to a history of migration. This is a testimonial – a witness to injustice and tragedy, but it is also a declaration of survival – a survival that is not static but transformative. The trains that displace, the deserts that separate form one harsh horizon but within that limit, against it and across it are people, are a culture, not escaping but flourishing unofficially, with the affective majesty of a melody, a rhythm, an Arirang.

This Film is the second of Exile Trilogy on the survivors and descendants of Stalin’s forced transfer of the Korean population of far eastern Russia into Central Asia. The Koryo people are victims of history, as they settle into lives and rebuild communities in central Asia, they reenter history as agents. They become the historical memory and the historically described present. This documentary engages in a dialogue with the found footage which reanimates the sound and image of the nomadic past of Koryo people.

2016 제18회 서울국제여성영화제
2016 제13회 EBS국제다큐멘터리영화제
2016 제08회 DMZ국제다큐영화제