HOMESICK
South Korea, Denmark, Finland | Danish, Korean | Film: 90min, TV: 52min | DCP | Color+B&W
Logline
HOMESICK follows the director's story, as an adoptee. Set between Denmark's windswept west coast and the mountains of Korea, it traces the story of a life lived and imagines the lives lost.
Synopsis
The director, an adoptee, traces the story of her Danish family, that hides domestic violence, divorce, and a suicide attempt behind it’s facade. And imagines the other lives that could have been in Korea. Through interviews, haunting landscapes and a reflective VO, she pieces together her perspective as the only adoptee in a Danish family and a life-long erasure from Korea. The film weaves the personal story with the political realities of a crumbling transnational adoption system.
Director Taekyung Tanja In Wol SØRENSEN
Taekyung Tanja is a film director, researcher, and visual anthropologist. She has directed two award-winning documentaries and is currently in production with her third film HOMESICK. The feature-length documentary A Colombian Family ('80) received, among other honors, an honorable mention for Emerging International Filmmaker at HOTDOCS 2020, as well as the main prize at the RAI Film Festival 2021.
Producer Jo Sona
Jo Sona has worked as a documentary producer on various projects. Her recent work, Free Chol Soo Lee (2022), won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Historical Documentary.
Producer Rikke Tambo ANDERSEN
Tambo film a Copenhagen-based production company founded by Rikke Tambo Andersen, producing fictional, documentary and hybrid films. Since 2017, Tambo film is endeavouring on innovative storytelling which crosses various genres and films, discovering talents around the world.