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A Woman Dancing on the Waves

CHOI Sedam
Korea 90min 4K Color Documentary
GenreDocumentary
Project StatusProduction
JEONJU Project GoalMentoring/Feedback, Networking
Total Budget150,800,000 KRW
Budget Required60,800,000 KRW
LOGLINE

As the memories of an aging female shaman scatter, her life approaches its final requiem.

SYNOPSIS

As her dementia deepens, Yoon Young-ja, who has spent her entire life as a shaman, moves between a nursing home and her family home. Her words drift between conversations with the dead, memories of her youth, and the confusion of the present. Amid her repeated wandering and anxiety, the family prepares a final ritual to close the long-shuttered shrine. When the doors finally open and the ritual begins, with family and disciples gathered around her, her body rediscovers a rhythm it seemed to have forgotten. Different times collide, and long-buried emotions begin to surface.

DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT

This documentary follows my grandmother, a shaman living with dementia, documenting the gradual disappearance of the world she sustained throughout her life. As the language of shamanism and dementia intertwine, the film questions the standards of normality we take for granted and the ways we understand human beings. It reflects emotional traces among family members and across generations, capturing moments when different times and states of mind meet within the ritual of the gut.

DIRECTOR
CHOI Sedam
Directed the short film Deul (2022). Interested in memory and oblivion, and the boundaries of the unseen world.
Deul (2022)
PRODUCER
KIM Ilkwon
He is the CEO of Cinema Dal, an independent film production and distribution company.
He has participated as a producer of numerous independent films, including the documentaries Taxi Blues (2005), Annyoung, Sayonara (2005), Tour of Duty (2012), The Omnivorous Family's Dilemma (2014), Sanctuary (2022), and the feature films Milky Way Liberation Front (2007), White Night (2012), Night Flight (2014), Lime Crime (2020), and Nobody′s Lover (2021).
Sanctuary (2022), Nobody′s Lover (2021), Lime Crime (2020), The Omnivorous Family's Dilemma (2014), Night Flight (2014), White Night (2012), Tour of Duty (2012), Milky Way Liberation Front (2007), Annyoung, Sayonara (2005), Taxi Blues (2005)
CONTACTsedamee@naver.com
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