Floating

At the turn of the millennium, Yunbeom, a print shop worker, takes his family to their hometown for one last visit before emigrating to the United States. Twenty-four years later, Yunbeom and his daughter Yiyoung return alone, drifting through memories and tracing what remains.

began with memories of my parents - the faces I was too young to fully recognize on the eve of our immigration to the United States in the early 2000s.

Divided between past and present, the film spans a vast passage of twenty-four years shaped by choices once made and the resulting weight of regret. The years spent in America remain unseen, left as a blank space, a lost time.

Yunbeom and Yiyoung echo my father and myself. Some things cannot be undone; we continue by carrying what remains. In the end, all I could do was offer them, us, a brief moment of rest beneath the gentle waves.

Director: June Jiyun Lee

Country: Korea, Republic of