Seattle Asian American Film Festival 2021

Haru Haru: Day by Day

Expired March 15, 2021 6:59 AM
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9 films in package
HAENGSYO
Stuck in standstill traffic, a young boy tries to spark a connection with a girl in the next lane over.
BIG HAPPINESS
This meditative film centers around dinner conversations that dive into overlooked topics of growing up in a transracial family as a Korean adoptee.
MIRROR
A Korean immigrant with a severely scarred face visits a black market hospital in Queens to seek plastic surgery.
HAEJU
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.
MOTHER, FLOWER
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.
UNPOT
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).
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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)

A Korean immigrant with a severely scarred face visits a black market hospital in Queens to seek plastic surgery. Addressing themes of precarity in immigrant communities and the lengths individuals go to align with our identities, MIRROR encapsulates a specific and harrowing personal experience. (Content Warning: Medical Procedure, Body Image Issues)

  • Year
    2020
  • Runtime
    12 minutes
  • Language
    Korean
  • Country
    United States
  • Premiere
    PNW Premiere
  • Note
    English Subtitles
  • Director
    Christina Yoon
  • Cast
    Spring Kim, Taeho Kwak, MeeWha Lee
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