ND/NF 2009 Program Overview Amreeka We Live in Public $9.99 Autumn Barking Water Birdwatchers Can Go Through Skin Cold Souls The Cove Every Little Step The Fly Give Me Your Hand Harmony and Me Home Louise-Michel The Maid Mid-August Lunch The Milk of Sorrow Ordinary Boys Paper Soldier Parque vía The Shaft Stay the Same... Treeless Mountain Unmade Beds Teaming Up Ticket Info About Submissions Past ND/NF Festivals

Treeless Mountain Series: New Directors/New Films 2009 Director: So Yong Kim, Country: USA/South Korea, Release: 2008, Runtime: 89 A "neo-realist gem" -New York Times In the filmlinc blog, Jessica Loudis writes: "While [the New York Times' A.O.] Scott is right in locating Treeless Mountain among the ranks of contemporary realist film, where Kim succeeds is in surpassing the genre’s limitations, allowing her characters to quietly reflect the depth of their surroundings, as opposed to the other way around." Read the whole review>> Unable to cope with the responsibility of raising her children alone, a woman parks six-year-old Jin and her younger sister Bin with her alcoholic older sister while she goes off to find her estranged husband. “Big Aunt” isn’t a bad woman, just completely self-centered. But when a letter arrives saying that the mother won’t be back for a while, Big Aunt takes the girls to live with their grandparents far off in the countryside. Few recent films have been less sentimental yet more perceptive of childhood experience than Treeless Mountain. Ably aided by cinematographer Anne Misawa, director So Yong Kim (In Between Days) effectively brings us into the world of her two young subjects, allowing us to feel their fear and even pain while also sharing moments of joy and extraordinary resilience as they learn to adapt to whatever comes their way. An Oscilloscope Pictures release.

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