To Kill Alice
Eunmi, South Korean woman living in United States. She lives a placid life dedicated to music. A vacation to North Korea inspires her to write a book about her tourist experiences and hopes for unification. However, her life changed drastically during her South Korean book tour.
Original title: To Kill Alice
International title: To Kill Alice
Country: South Korea
Duration: 58/78
Language: Korean, English
Director: Sangkyu Kim
Production company: Sangkyu Kim
Eunmi, South Korean woman living in United States, lives a placid life dedicated to music. Her life changes drastically, however, after a vacation to North Korea. She writes a book about her tourist experiences in North Korea and hopes for unification. Eunmi receives a Citizen Journalist Award in South Korea and travels in South Korea for a promotional book tour, where she’s suddenly accused of having a communist agenda and spreading propaganda. Public outrage, a media circus and threats of violence erupt all around her.
Eunmi loses her voice as a spokesperson of peaceful unification and cultural exchange between the two Korea’s and becomes an object of hate for South Korean far-right representatives. She has to fight her way out of South Korea, just to discover that meanwhile her stigma has reached U.S. too.
2018 Hot Docs – World Showcase
2018 Seoul Independent Documentary Film Festival – Audience Award
2018 Diaspora Film Festival, South Korea
2018 Seoul Human Rights Film Festival, South Korea
2018 Indie Forum Film Festival, Aouth Korea
2017 DMZ International Documentary Film Festival – Korean Competition Brave New Docs Award