About the Film
Director
Park Huiju
Country
Korea, Canada
Year
2025
Program
KFFC 4
Curated by
MAiFF Pgramming Team
Description
Synopsis | For the first time in four years, a daughter returns to Daegu, South Korea, determined to end the domestic war that plagued her childhood. They have been hurting each other for years as they never learned to live harmoniously. Despite their efforts to find peace, the scars of the past remain unresolved. Through conversations with her parents, she uncovers a pattern of domestic violence deeply ingrained in her family's history. At last, she realises that only she can break this cycle.
Programmer's note | Is home a place we return to or a time that must be made again? The film follows the footsteps of a daughter returning home and slowly reveals how the air and silence of childhood can cling to a body and a life for years. The home she faces again 4 years later comes toward her like a living thing, layered with repeated wounds that were never spoken out loud. Within it, violence seeps into tone of voice, into breath, into the distance between people, and into silence, shaking even the next step she takes. What the film holds is this invisible grain of time. The daughter’s gaze does not stay with the work of revisiting the past. It gradually turns toward another direction, shaped by her resolve to cut off the flow of pain that has reached her. That resolve begins with protecting her own life and grows into a force that can hold even the time that has not yet arrived. The film captures the moment when one person stands before a world long hardened and begins to write the first sentence of another life. As the time frozen beneath the name of home begins to move again, we are finally left to ask whether home was the place that held us captive or the first sentence of a life we might still remake.



