Details
Directed by: SEUNG-JUN YI
Country:
South Korea
Runtime: 1hr 49min
Year: 2019
Topics:
Sociopolitical
Last Screened:
Wed 29th Jun 2022
Revealing a rarely discussed but strongly enforced law in South Korea, a North Korean woman who finds herself trapped in South Korea, unable to return to her family in the North.
Shadow Flowers follows Ryun-hee Kim, a North Korean woman, who finds herself trapped in South Korea, from where it is illegal to cross to the North.
Desperate to return to her family and loved ones, Kim tried to smuggle herself out and even sought political asylum at the Vietnamese Embassy, but she has become a South Korean citizen and the ban on crossing the border is absolute. Over seven years of struggle, increasing political absurdity hinders her journey back home.
