Film Info
La chica del sur

Film Information

Exhibition Title	La chica del sur
Original Title	La chica del sur
English Title	The Girl from the South
Director	José Luis García
Country
Year	2012
Format	HD
Colour	Color
Duration	94'

Cast:

Intérpretes / Cast: Lim Sukyung, Alejandro Kim

Production:

Guión / Scriptwriter: José Luis García, Jorge Goldenberg
Fotografía / Cinematography: José Luis García
Edición / Editing: Alejandra Almirón, Alejandro Penovi, José Luis García
Producción / Producer: José Luis García, Gabriel Kameniecki

More info:

Days & Times

dates & times ticket

tickets

Synopsis

Chance took photographer and filmmaker José Luis García to North Korea in July 1989 to attend the International Youth and Student Festival in Pyongyang, soon after the Tian’anmen massacre. But what seemed to be just another meeting of socialist delegations from all over the world –through one of the most impenetrable borders of the old communist world– becomes García’s obsession when South Korean peace activist Im Su-kyong shows up and revolutionizes the event by announcing she will cross the border by foot to go back to her country. Twenty years after recording that fascinating period with his Super VHS camera, García decides to go back through the footsteps of that enigmatic woman. Zigzagging and explosive, La chica del sur is marked by a unique life in the middle of the hurricane of history, but also by the eye –and a voice reflecting on its own process– of a filmmaker who sees in one character the condensation of everything he believes to be worth filming.