2014 CNEX 國際華人紀錄片影展

北緯38° Tiger Spirit     [台灣首映]
 

北韓 North Korea 南韓 South Korea & 加拿大 Canada / 2008 / 75 min / 導演 Director：李敏淑　LEE Min-sook

2008 加拿大Hot Docs紀錄片影展

誠品信義11/1,14:30   誠品信義11/4,18:00

1950年韓戰結束，自此南北韓以北緯三十八度線為界，數百萬個家庭被迫分離。

近年南北韓政府開放申請，讓極少數的家庭有尋親與會面的機會，而這些被「批准」的會面，其實像探監一樣被嚴格監督著。

六十二年的離別，老先生想念著的那個六歲兒子已經過世；老太太只希望在死之前能見到自己的兄弟姊妹……一切無關政治，而是令人鼻酸的家庭親情。

Korea is a divided nation. The psychic scar shared by families divided during the Korean War in the 1950s is symbolized by the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) dividing communist North from capitalist South. Along this infamous border, filmmaker Min Sook LEE begins a revelatory, emotion-charged journey into Korea’s broken heart, exploring the rhetoric and realism of reunification through the extraordinary stories of ordinary people.

LEE joins one man’s quest to prove the tiger, a symbol of resilience in Korean mythology, still lives in the DMZ. But Lee delives deeper than symbols, asking the crucial question—how will the two Koreas be put back together? In the South, we meet elderly Koreans waiting for news of relatives and young defectors haunted by memories of escape. In the North, we visit an inter-Korean economic project and gain unprecedented access to a state-sanctioned family reunion.

An eloquent tale of longing and hope, Tiger Spirit is an unforgettable portrait of Korea at a crossroads.