BIG HAPPINESS | Haru Haru: Day by Day | Seattle Asian American Film Festival 2021

Seattle Asian American Film Festival 2021

Haru Haru: Day by Day

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Telling stories that span continents and decades, this program highlighting Korean American experiences touches on themes of immigration, memory, and familial relationships. These short films run the gamut of navigating transracial families shaped by adoption, to presenting darkly humorous perspectives on the history of Japanese colonialism. As a whole, this program examines how many meanings Korean American identity can contain, while addressing culturally defining ideas in inventive ways.

Co-presented by Korean American Coalition Washington (KAC WA)

In 1988 co-director, Da Hee Kim, was adopted from South Korea as a baby, and was raised by a white family in the suburbs of Minnesota. BIG HAPPINESS centers around two dinner conversations, one with Da Hee's adoptive parents in Minnesota, and the other with Hojung Audenaerde, another Korean adoptee in Seoul. Big Happiness is a meditation on transnational adoption, identity, and colorblindness growing up in a transracial family.

Year
2020
Runtime
14 minutes
Language
English
Country
United States
Premiere
PNW Premiere

Director
Da Hee Kim, Matthew Koshmrl

9 films in package

Stuck in standstill traffic, a young boy tries to spark a connection with a girl in the next lane over.

This meditative film centers around dinner conversations that dive into overlooked topics of growing up in a transracial family as a Korean adoptee.

A Korean immigrant with a severely scarred face visits a black market hospital in Queens to seek plastic surgery.

Generational differences emerge while a Korean American granddaughter tries to connect with her grandmother over the story of how she escaped from North Korea and survived the Korean War.

A story of a woman who struggles with depression after delivering her first baby.

IN LOVING MEMORY

Kaylie has grown up fatherless. After the recent death of her dad, she is forced to attend his wake, where she faces a sudden surge of grief, pent-up emotions, and secrets that challenge her composure.

A woman living with Alzheimer’s disease takes the day to fulfill her desires and embrace her last joys before being sent to a nursing home.

FUCKING JAPANESE

A woman is interrupted at an inconvenient time.

Haru Haru: Day by Day Q&A

Moderated by Hyunjae Shin with Christina Yoon (director, Mirror), Huieun Park (director, Unpot), Aaron Field (director, Haengsyo), Amanda Lynn Kim (director, Haeju), and Mayumi Yoshida (director, In Loving Memory).

This virtual screening is eligible for audience awards! Unlock it to cast your vote.

Protected ContentThis content can only be viewed in authorized regions: United States of America.

Telling stories that span continents and decades, this program highlighting Korean American experiences touches on themes of immigration, memory, and familial relationships. These short films run the gamut of navigating transracial families shaped by adoption, to presenting darkly humorous perspectives on the history of Japanese colonialism. As a whole, this program examines how many meanings Korean American identity can contain, while addressing culturally defining ideas in inventive ways.

Co-presented by Korean American Coalition Washington (KAC WA)

In 1988 co-director, Da Hee Kim, was adopted from South Korea as a baby, and was raised by a white family in the suburbs of Minnesota. BIG HAPPINESS centers around two dinner conversations, one with Da Hee's adoptive parents in Minnesota, and the other with Hojung Audenaerde, another Korean adoptee in Seoul. Big Happiness is a meditation on transnational adoption, identity, and colorblindness growing up in a transracial family.

Year
2020
Runtime
14 minutes
Language
English
Country
United States
Premiere
PNW Premiere

Director
Da Hee Kim, Matthew Koshmrl