SISTER J

By Soojung LEE

CINEMA DAL - as SALES

Drama - Completed 2020


Festivals
& Awards

Busan IFF 2020
Wide Angle BIFF Mecenat Award
    • Year of production
    • 2020
    • Genres
    • Drama, True Story
    • Countries
    • KOREA (South)
    • Languages
    • KOREAN
    • Duration
    • 97 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Soojung LEE
    • Synopsis
    • Lim Jaechun, who worked as a factory worker for 30 years and was suddenly laid off, spent 10 years in a tent as a sit-in. Director Lee Soojung calls her ‘sister J’. 10 years into the fight for reinstatement, Jaechun now writes, plays guitar, and sings while living in a tent. She says her personality has changed after 7 years of being laid-off from “originally timid” to being very lively. Sister J deals with a struggle for reinstatement, but it is actually a film about a single person, as stated in the title. This documentary brings artistic vitality to the ‘4,464 days’ Sister J spends on the site, with lines and music driven from the forms of the play into the cinema.