The Singaporean screenwriter, director, and current DAAD fellow Yeo Siew Hua (1985), has chosen another contemporary Asian cinema film alongside his third feature STRANGER EYES (2024): POETRY (2010) by Lee Chang-dong. Both films boast renowned performances by leading actresses: Lee Kang-sheng, the star from Tsai Ming-liang’s films in STRANGER EYES, and the legendary Yun Jung-hee, who has returned from retirement for her role in POETRY.
The presentation of fellows from the Berlin Artists Program of the DAAD, which has traditionally taken place at the Arsenal cinema for decades, will continue as part of Arsenal on Location at fsk Kino at Oranienplatz.
Poetry / Shi
Wed 15.10., 20 Uhr, Introduction (in English): Yeo Siew Hua
SHI (Poetry) • Lee Chang-dong • South Korea 2010 • DCP • OmeU 139′
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The importance of seeing, of looking at the world, is at the heart of POETRY. The 66-year-old widow Mi-ja (Yun Jung-hee) works as a caregiver, while also raising her teenage grandson. After being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, she enrolls in a poetry class — she wants to write a poem before she loses her words. “To write poetry, you have to be able to see well. The most important thing in life is seeing,” says the instructor. But Mi-ja’s search for beauty and inspiration is abruptly interrupted by the cruelty and indifference of an ignorant society: her grandson is involved in the death of a classmate, which plunges Mi-ja into a moral dilemma. It is her pain that ultimately allows her to see and write. (bik)
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