Winter in Sokcho - Expat Cinema Rotterdam
Miss seeing international films because you can’t yet keep up with the Dutch subtitles? Want to meet fellow expats and new Dutch folks? Love cinema? Then this is the event for you! Join Expat Cinema Rotterdam for the best international art house cinema with English subtitles.
In this feature film debut by Japanese-French filmmaker Koya Kamura, the life of a young Korean woman in a small guesthouse is disrupted when a French artist takes up residence.
Sooha works at a guesthouse in the snowy coastal town of Sokcho, South Korea. Her routine life is disturbed when a French guest books a room. The guest, an artist, is seeking inspiration. He wants to experience authentic Korea and asks Sooha to help him with this. Through his perspective, Sooha discovers a new side of her country and of herself. Meanwhile, she increasingly reflects on her own identity and that of her father, a French man about whom she actually knows very little.
With its picturesque imagery and melancholic rhythm, Koya Kamura’s film feels like an intimate secret that gradually reveals itself — mysterious, subtly unsettling, and lingering long after the credits roll.
Kamura adapted the acclaimed debut novel by Elisa Shua Dusapin into a stunning blend of animation and live-action, as well as an unconventional love story, featuring beautiful performances by Korean actress Bella Kim and French actor Roschdy Zem.
- 19:00
Kies tijdstip
- filmspecial
Miss seeing international films because you can’t yet keep up with the Dutch subtitles? Want to meet fellow expats and new Dutch folks? Love cinema? Then this is the event for you! Join Expat Cinema Rotterdam for the best international art house cinema with English subtitles.
In this feature film debut by Japanese-French filmmaker Koya Kamura, the life of a young Korean woman in a small guesthouse is disrupted when a French artist takes up residence.
Sooha works at a guesthouse in the snowy coastal town of Sokcho, South Korea. Her routine life is disturbed when a French guest books a room. The guest, an artist, is seeking inspiration. He wants to experience authentic Korea and asks Sooha to help him with this. Through his perspective, Sooha discovers a new side of her country and of herself. Meanwhile, she increasingly reflects on her own identity and that of her father, a French man about whom she actually knows very little.
With its picturesque imagery and melancholic rhythm, Koya Kamura’s film feels like an intimate secret that gradually reveals itself — mysterious, subtly unsettling, and lingering long after the credits roll.
Kamura adapted the acclaimed debut novel by Elisa Shua Dusapin into a stunning blend of animation and live-action, as well as an unconventional love story, featuring beautiful performances by Korean actress Bella Kim and French actor Roschdy Zem.
