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Tiger Spirit
Min Sook Lee 2007
Categories: Canadian Spectrum, Featured
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Run time: 90 min. | Canada | Language: English
Millions of Korean families were separated from one another in the 1950s when war broke out between the Soviet-occupied North and the American-controlled South. For more than a generation, families have not been able to visit, speak on the phone or even write each other. Tragically, the last survivors to remember a unified Korea are dying without ever having seen their grandchildren. Filmmaker Min Sook Lee examines the political reality with a journalist's eye and keen personal insight. To better understand the country she left as a child, Lee examines the consequences of history through the extraordinary experiences of ordinary Koreans. At a war memorial site, she meets a woman who has the fate of earning her livelihood by daily transforming her harrowing escape from North Korea into a story for tourists. Lee meets with elderly Koreans who yearn to see their loved ones just once before they die. One lucky family, the Kims, are winners in a surreal mass state-sanctioned family reunion in a facility in the North. Their meeting profoundly illuminates the cost of 50 years of separation and the challenges ahead for those who dream of reunification.
-Gisèle Gordon
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6:30 PM     Sun, Apr 20
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12:45 PM     Sat, Apr 26
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About the film
Cast & Crew
director
Min Sook Lee
 
producer
Anita Lee (NFB)
Ed Barreveld (Storyline Entertainment)
Min Sook Lee
cinematographer
Mark Ellam
Michael Grippo CSC
Stan Barua CSC
editor
Ricardo Acosta
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Tiger Spirit took me on a surprisingly emotional journey. I didn't expect to get so caught up in the vignettes of people's lives and their struggles and expectations for a home and nation that we all as audience members ... know is still divided. The director carefully presents us with characters and stories about a people who are still (i suppose surprisingly) dealing with the aftermath of war that is 50 years + and going strong. An important story that demonstrates the lines of casaulity in the everday lives of koreans in canada and abroad. Bring extra tissues.
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