Film

A Boat Departed from Me Taking Me Away

2023 · 1h 20m · Documentary

In the ranks of the Japanese army during WWII, there existed what was known as comfort women. In the present, that term was replaced by a definition that is closer to reality—they were women who had been kidnapped and turned into sex slaves. After a long period of humiliation, the victims remained quiet, but some of them built up the courage to write about their ordeals in a series of letters. Cecilia Kang’s new documentary recovers those testimonies in order to talk about the way in which History and social mandates affect the lives of Korean women in Argentina, from the perspective of a young acting student who, after coming into contact with this correspondence, allows herself to reflect on the community she lives in and understand more about the traditions of her people as well as her own family history.

Melanie Chong

Hae Kyung Jeon

Alex Chong

Eunice Cho

Mora Lestingi

Julio Chávez

Él mismo

• Cecilia KangProducer · Director
• Virginia RoffoWriter
• Martín Rodríguez RedondoProducer
• Victoria PeredaDirector of Photography
• Geraldina RodríguezEditor

Release date

November 7, 2023

Status

Released

Original language

Spanish

Runtime

1h 20m

Genres

Documentary