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Country/Region: South Korea

Release Year: 2017

Story:

An old white dog lives in a vacant lot in a quiet Seoul neighbourhood. Carrying her camera, the director asks residents what they know about it. As locals and passers-by share scattered observations and memories, the dog’s story gradually reveals traces of the lives each person has led.

Casts & Crews:

KIM Bo-ram
Directors

Runtime: 82 minutes

Language: Korean

Subtitles: English

Douban: https://movie.douban.com/subject/27005963/

Festivals & Awards:
2017 Jeonju International Film Festival, South Korea
2017 Seoul Eco Film Festival - Grand Prize, South Korea
2017 Independent Film & Video Makers, South Korea
2017 Seoul International New Media Festival, South Korea
2017 DMZ International Documentary Film Festival, South Korea
2017 DOK Leipzig - Next Masters Competition Golden Dove, Germany
2018 Taiwan International Documentary Festival (TIDF) - Asian Vision Competition Grand Prize, Taiwan
2018 Diaspora Film Festival, South Korea
2019 Busan Independent Film Festival, South Korea
2024 Seoul Animal Film Festival, South Korea

Tags: #StrayDog #UrbanLife #Memory #Relationships

Stills:

Director‘s Statement:
Very often, life in a city deletes certain existence. Everything easily leaves you and becomes forgotten just as easily. Here, it is hard to notice something that naturally becomes extinct.
All the misunderstandings and distortions taking place in life perhaps begin with the moment of such severances.
In the urbanized life where “relationships” have become scarce, I wanted to examine the sense of emptiness through the life of Baekgu, the dog.
What are the elements of life we are missing, and what are the values that should not be forgotten among us? These are the things I wished to examine.