Seattle Asian American Film Festival 2021

Haru Haru: Day by Day

Expired March 15, 2021 6:59 AM
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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