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Whether through the kindness of a stranger, the support of friends, or the connection of community, these stories show how we find the strength to heal, the courage to rebuild, and the hope to carry on.
A year after her father's funeral, a Korean American daughter returns home for the first time, only to find her immigrant mother has erased every trace of him and has chosen faith over memory.
Director Biography - Youil Kim
Youil Kim is a Korea-born director and producer studying filmmaking in Los Angeles. His films center on solidarity and social voices. While attending university in South Korea, he livestreamed a campus protest on his iPhone and learned firsthand that documentation can move people. Since then, he has followed the lives of those who endure pain and those whose stories are easily erased, continuing the work of turning them into cinema. His short film Embrace portrays the fractures and acceptance that emerge between a Korean American daughter and her first-generation immigrant mother, with culture, faith, and memory between them.
Whether through the kindness of a stranger, the support of friends, or the connection of community, these stories show how we find the strength to heal, the courage to rebuild, and the hope to carry on.
A year after her father's funeral, a Korean American daughter returns home for the first time, only to find her immigrant mother has erased every trace of him and has chosen faith over memory.
Director Biography - Youil Kim
Youil Kim is a Korea-born director and producer studying filmmaking in Los Angeles. His films center on solidarity and social voices. While attending university in South Korea, he livestreamed a campus protest on his iPhone and learned firsthand that documentation can move people. Since then, he has followed the lives of those who endure pain and those whose stories are easily erased, continuing the work of turning them into cinema. His short film Embrace portrays the fractures and acceptance that emerge between a Korean American daughter and her first-generation immigrant mother, with culture, faith, and memory between them.