Motherland

Motherland

Directed By Christina Yoon

South Korea, USA | Narrative | 18 min

Leah, a Korean adoptee raised in America, returns to Korea to search for her birth mother. Leah is met with secrecy from the adoption agency as well as her own family, but remains relentless on her solo journey, driven by her longing to discover the truth of her origins.

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    Film Details

    1. Korean, English

    2. English

    3. 2022

    4. 18 minutes

    5. Drama

    6. Narrative

    7. South Korea, USA

      8. Christina Yoon


      Christina Yoon is an award-winning writer, director, and editor. She is a graduate of Columbia University School of the Arts and an alumna of NYU Tisch, often making dramatic and genre films about trauma, alienation, and identity. Christina has written for Apple TV+’s Pachinko. Her films have screened at the Palm Springs International ShortFest and the Hamptons International Film Festival, and won Best Narrative Short at the Oscar-qualifying Provincetown International Film Festival.

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        Grace Merriman

      10. Christina Yoon

        Minkyu Kang

      11. Tiffany Chu

        Kyung Hong

        Taewoo Kim

        Minae Oh

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