ELDER SON

By Cecilia KANG

LES CINEMAS DU MONDE - LA FABRIQUE CINEMA DE L’INSTITUT FRANÇAIS - as PROMO

First film - Development 2021

The film draws an emotional cartography based on a family’s migration from post- war South Korea to Argentina. They break traditions to go against what is expected of them, delineating unexplored paths through painful acts of freedom.

    • Year of production
    • 2021
    • Genres
    • First film, Drama
    • Countries
    • ARGENTINA
    • Languages
    • SPANISH, KOREAN
    • Director(s)
    • Cecilia KANG
    • Producer(s)
    • Juan PABLO MILLER (Terea Fina)
    • Synopsis
    • A generational tale of a Korean family’s settling in Argentina, when the foolhardy Antonio gambles all for the promise of an immigrant’s dream. His wife decides to leave everything she loves behind, in search of a man who left her waiting for eight long years. Their grown-up teenage daughter has to navigate her displaced identity in a country of the free, but yet can never choose to belong.