The Girl from the South

Fate made it so that the photographer and filmmaker, José Luis García, travel to North Korean in July, 1989, soon after the Tiananmen, to attend the International Festival of the Youth in Pyongyang. However, what appear to be only a meeting between socialist delegations around the world, becomes an obsession for García to find that militan pacifist, Im Su-kyong, from South Korea, appears and revolutionizes the event annoucing that she will cross by foot the border that separates her from her country. Twenty years after recording that fascinating period withs Supr VHS camera, García decides to look fot the enigmatic footprints of the enigmatic woman. Weaving and explosive, The Girl From the South is maked by the peculiarity of a life set in the eye of the hurricane of history, but also by the eye, and the voice that reflects upon the process itself, of a filmmaker that sees in a character the condensation of what he thinks is worth filming. (Interior XIII)