• Tiger and Ox

    Directed by Seunghee Kim
    South Korea | 8 minutes |

In Korean patriarchal society, what does divorce mean to women? Is a fatherless family a failure? In order to find the answer to these questions, a single mother and her daughter start a conversation.

In competition for Best Documentary Short

film synopsis

film details

Director: Seunghee Kim
Producers: Seunghee Kim
Screenwriter: Seunghee Kim
Editor: Seunghee Kim
Cast: Yeonsuk Kim, Seunghee Kim
Original Language Title: 호랑이 와 소
Country: South Korea
Language: In Korean with English subtitles.
Year: 2019
Running Time: 8 minutes

director biography

Seunghee Kim, born in 1985 in South Korea, has pursued her career as animation filmmaker since 2014. Her first film Mirror in Mind and second film SimSim(The Realm of Deepest Knowing) won awards and screened at numerous international film festivals, such as Florida, Slamdance, Annecy and Dok Leipzig. Both films were featured on Vimeo as staff-pick after the festival circuits. Also, She is an invited artist for Cité internationale des arts in Paris, France where she produced her latest animated documentary short Tiger and Ox in 2018, and Samsung Foundation of Culture supported her residency. 

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