K-SARAM I:

Tale of the pig head

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2021, 28 min, experimental documentary, 

Director: Alisa Berger 

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Centered around the Koryo-saram community in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, the film displays a shamanistic memorial ancestral ritual „Jesa", encompassing the collective memory of Korean diaspora, the wish of the Koryo-saram for a unification of South and North Korea, and showing the real appearance of the ghosts of migrants whose transformation to spirits was not succeeded.

 

 

Festival History:

World Premiere: Lublin Film Festival 2021