Coming Soon to
Ely's Historic State Theater
Coming Soon to
Ely's Historic State Theater
Screening Followed by Q&A with Filmmaker. Be sure to head to Insula Restaurant before or after the screening to try their Disputed Island burger, which has a thematic relationship to Dokdo, the disputed island in the film. Flash your festival pass or ticket stub for a free side of kimchi between 11am - 3pm on Saturday 2/11.
A Korean farmer protests the Japanese government in Tokyo over its claims of the disputed island territory of Dokdo after he finds out his father was abducted and enslaved in a coal mine during the Japanese occupation of Korea. A Korean woman who lived on Dokdo with her father struggles to keep his legacy alive after the Korean government mysteriously erased their history of being pioneering residents. Set in the unresolved trauma of
the Japanese occupation of Korea, Land of My
Father (아버지의땅) is a story about two individual's lives that are intertwined with a remote disputed island.