Soup and Ideology

2023・South Korea・Japan・118 minutes

Since the death of her father, the director of this film, Liang Yingji, traveled between Tokyo and Osaka to take care of her elderly mother. As the mother ages and suffers from Alzheimer's disease, the director's figure enters the frame and talks to the mother. Despite ideological conflicts with their pro-North Korean mother, they lived together. In 2018, the director and her husband took their mother to Jeju Island to attend the memorial ceremony for the Jeju April 3rd Incident. However, her mother had gradually lost her memory. The cruel and contradictory war history was about to be buried deep in the hollow body etched by the years, and her daughter became a mother. The continuator of memory.

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2021
山形國際紀錄片影展

最佳紀錄片提名

2021
DMZ 國際紀錄片影展

國際競賽大獎

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Director

梁英姬