Mother's Place
엄마의 자리 | South Korea | 2022
World Premiere
South Korea | Family | 2022 | 114 minutes | in Korean w/English subtitles
Director: Ryu Hee-jung
Starring: Jung Da-bin, Eum Moon-suk, Oh Yeon-ah
Film Source: M-Line Distribution
Please stay for a post-film discussion led by professor Ron Falzone – an award-winning screenwriter and Associate Professor at Columbia College Chicago as well as an Instructor in film comedy at Second City Film School.
In-Cinema Screening
Saturday, Sept 24 at 4:30 PM
@ AMC Niles 12
SYNOPSIS
I thought we belonged together, or maybe it was just me.
Yuna is a teenage girl who just lost her mother and stepfather in a car accident. Without giving her time to mourn for them, suddenly, the elders of the stepfather’s family claim that Yuna’s mother can’t be buried next to him since she’s not their family member. Even her sister and brother don’t take issue with their decision. Yuna believes all along that they were all a family but now, it looks like they aren’t. If the mother’s place isn’t next to her husband, where should it be?
STILL GALLERY
DIRECTOR
Ryu Hee-jung
RHU Hee-jung graduated from Dongguk University Graduate School of Film and Video. She started as a film director in Chungmuro in her 20s, established a post production company for movie dramas based on her assistant director experience, directed visual effects for dozens of Korean and Chinese blockbuster films, and directed works that can impress based on her many years of film experience. She prepared her first feature(MOTHER’S PLACE) with a screenplay she wrote herself based on the story of her family.
This screening is sponsored in part by
