A BRAND NEW LIFE

Saturday, March 5th, 19:00, J.A De Sève Concordia
Sunday, March 6th, 21:30, J.A De Sève Concordia
Ounie LECOMTE, Korea/France, 2009, 92min, Korean with English subtitles

SYNOPSIS
1975. It's early autumn, in a small town in South Korea. Jinhee is 9. She sets off on a journey. She doesn't know where she is going. But she has to obey. Somewhere near Seoul, her father entrusts her to an orphanage for girls run by Catholic nuns in the hope that she will be adopted. Jinhee resists. She cannot believe that this father whom she loves so much has abandoned her. She tries to make him come back. She attempts to run away. In vain, she finally accepts her fate, forced to hope and wait for her possible adoption.

Bio
Born in Seoul in 1966, Ounie LECOMTE left Korea for France at the age of 9 when a Protestant family adopted her. Her adoptive father was a minister. After studying dress design, she worked on a number of films. In 2006, she enrolled at the Fémis Screenwriting Workshop run by Eve Deboise where she wrote "A Brand New Life".

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