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In Between Days
Content:Feature Film
Available From:YesAsia.com
Media Type:DVD
Release Date:2006
Audience:Higher Education
Secondary Education
Running Time:82 min.
Physical Description: 1 videodisc (82 min.) :; sd., col. ;; 4 3/4 in.
Language:English and Korean with English subtitles
Author:Directed by So Yong Kim
Written by So Yong Kim and Bradley Rust Gray
Soandbrad Productions

Resource Library Number:AADVD 2
Subject:Anthropology and Sociology
Education
Subheading:Children and Youth
Identity
Secondary Education
Region:East Asia
Immigration/Diaspora
Country:South Korea



Abstract:

"'A quiet specimen of personal storytelling at its most exciting,' (Entertainment Weekly), In Between Days intimately portrays the joys and risks of first love and burgeoning adulthood with bracing and undeniable honesty.  Aimie (Jiseon Kim) is a teenager recently transplanted from her native South Korea to a snowbound North American city.  Disconnected from her single mother and bored at school, she struggles to find her way in a strange land of new faces, only to encounter a strange age of new feelings.  Aimee's sole meaningful connection is to her best and only friend Tran (Taegu Andy Kang), a Korean boy a few steps ahead of her on the path to assimilation.  But as Aimie's feelings for Tran grow in complexity and depth, her sole source of comfort and stability begins to cause her unease.  On the threshold of maturity, Aimie struggles to find a place outside herself where past and future connect, and a place within herself where love and friendship don't cancel each other out. 

In her 'thrillingly self-assured' (New York Times) feature debut, director So Yong Kim uses intricately framed handheld DV photography and a naturalistic soundscape to lucidly render her non-actor cast's performances with 'remarkably unforced believability.' (Time Out)." --DVD Container  

Awards: Winner, Special Jury Prize, Sundance Film Festival






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