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The Girl from the South

Year
2012
Country
Argentina
Duration
94’
Director
José Luis García

In 1989, José Luis García participated in the World Youth and Students Festival taking place in Pyongyang, North Korea. A political event sponsored by the USSR, just three weeks after the massacre at Tiananmen Square and four months before the fall of the Berlin Wall. He meets Lim Sukyung, a young activist, who arrived clandestinely from Seoul representing the students of South Korea, demanding the peaceful reunification of her nation. Twenty years later, the collapse of youthful illusions guides the quest of the filmmaker, fascinated by the memory of the ‘Flower of Reunification’. Always beset by the onslaught of a society still at war, Lim ends up revealing the unexpected and profound link that bonds her to a complete stranger who has arrived from the far ends of the earth.

Production
Taskovski Films, 7 Granard Business Centre, Bunns Lane, London UK NW7 2DQ, [email protected], www.taskovskifilms.com
Director
José Luis García
José Luis García was born in Buenos Aires in 1965. He studied at TERCINE (Workshop of Studies and Cinematographic Direction), which was set up by professionals of the Argentine cinematography industry between 1982 and 1985. From 1984 to 1987 he studied under director Ricardo Becher, and the director of photography Félix Monti from 1985 to 1988. He worked as a DoP and director in advertising and music promos. He has won numerous professional awards.
Selected Filmography
(selected): Cándido López, the Battle Fields (2005), The Girl from the South (2012)
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