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My Dear Enemy (Meotjin haru) My Land (Mi chacra)
SOUTH KOREA
South Korean director Lee Yoon-ki has a sure feel for the pangs of
USA
Heavy mist hangs over the towering Peruvian mountains as a young sub-
Director: Lee Yoon-ki young hearts, and in this offbeat comedy he reveals the exquisite fric- Director: Jason Burlage sistence farmer, Feliciano, his wife Locrecia, and their small son Royer till
Producers: David Cho, Cho Kwang-hee, tion between a no-nonsense realist, Hee-soo (Jeon Do-youn), and her Cinematographer: Jason Burlage
their fertile land. Farming the fields above the Sacred Valley in southern
Oh Jeong-wan
dreamy ex-boyfriend, Byoung-woon (Ha Jung-woo), from whom she is
Editor: Jason Burlage
Peru is all the indigenous people of Mullacas know – that and the taste
Screenwriters: Lee Yoon-ki, trying to collect an old debt.
2009 / color / 102 min.
of the local fermented corn beverage, chicha. Though theirs appears
Park Eun-young
at first glance to be a peaceful life, isolation and lack of schooling have
MS: A to Z
Cinematographer: Choi Sang-ho
In the course of one eventful day, the two traverse the teeming streets given rise to feelings of social inequality and an increase in alcoholism.
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of Seoul as the penniless charmer tries to drum up the funds from
JaSon BurLaGE
So while he values the beauty of their surroundings, Feliciano wants his
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Cast: Jeon Do-yeon, Ha Jeong-woo, friends under her watchful, if not stern, gaze. But as day wears on into Born in Waterloo, Iowa, Jason Burlage
son, as his father wanted him, to move to the city so he can get an edu-
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Oh Ji-eun
night, the one-time couple gingerly begins to come to terms with their
was raised in a small town in southeast
cation and have a better life. Marking director Jason Burlage’s feature
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2008 / color / 124 min. checkered romantic past.
Idaho and studied at Montana State
debut, this moving documentary chronicles the young family’s struggles
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University, where he majored in media
through the planting season and Feliciano’s more lucrative work as a
and theatre arts. My Land is his first
The sheer talent of Jung-woo and Do-youn – who won Best Actress at
feature documentary.
porter along the Incan trails to Machu Picchu.
LEE Yoon-Ki Cannes in 2007 for her work in Secret Sunshine – comes to light as the
After graduating from the University
pair shares virtually every scene in close proximity. But My Dear Enemy These days, only a small percentage of indigenous Peruvians farm,
of Southern California with a degree
also makes a star of Seoul itself – a fascinating city that Lee renders as as one in three members of the population now lives in Lima – sixty
in business administration, Lee Yoon-ki
returned to his native South Korea to
vividly as Woody Allen does New York or Barry Levinson does Baltimore. percent of whose residents occupy the slums. Yet among mountain com-
pursue filmmaking. His first feature film,
munities, the belief that life is better in the city is widely held – and thus
This Charming Girl (2005), screened at
Sponsored by:
the traditions of “planting according to the stars,” as their fathers and
Sundance and the Berlin Film Festival.
their fathers’ fathers taught them, are slowly disappearing. The crucial
practice known as ayni, for instance, or communal reciprocity in the
Filmography
form of such acts as plowing one another’s fields, is being lost. Through
Ad Lib Night (2006)
Love Talk (2005)
such unsettling details, Burlage paints a vivid portrait of the complexi-
This Charming Girl (2005)
ties facing the future of rural communities throughout Peru.
In cooperation with: Denver Justice & peace Committee
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