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Our Bodies

LEE-KIL Bora

  • Korea, Netherlands
  • 90min
  • DCP

Synopsis

 begins with a question asked by Lee-Kil Bora, a protagonist and also the director of the documentary. The axis of the film is a story of 3 generations of women; Grandmother, Mother, and the director herself. Lee-Kil Bora comes to meet a variety of people and events via eugenics surrounding the female body, which was introduced to Asia in the 1960s, involving discourses on capitalism growth, and demography. In the process, Lee-Kil Bora meets Fujiki Kazuko. FUJIKI is the director of SODA (Siblings of Deaf Adults), has a deaf sibling herself, and is the attorney in a national compensation lawsuit for forced sterilization for the deaf. Lee-Kil Bora also meets Hwang Jisung. She is a child of deaf adults herself and also studies and works as a researcher for Past History Committee for Truth and Reconciliation. Both of them let director Lee-Kil Bora know the extent of forced sterilization on the national level committed across Asian regions including Korea and Japan and listen to the stories of the victims. Fujiki Kazuko does her best as a lawyer leading the lawsuit, but says she cannot have any child for fear that she might have a disabled baby. This conversation with her makes the director ask herself a question. The film began with the question, ¡°why can't we talk about this together?¡± This question expands to ask about normality and then comes back again to the director. 

Director

  • LEE-KIL Bora

     

Credit

  • ProducerÁ¶¼Ò³ª JO Sona