OVERSEAS
ABOUT
In the Philippines, women get deployed abroad to work as domestic workers or nannies. In order to do so, they frequently leave their own children behind, before throwing themselves into the unknown. In one of the many training centers dedicated to domestic work that can be found in the Philippines, a group of trainees are getting ready to face both homesickness and the possible abuses lying ahead. During role playing exercises, they alternatively play both the roles of the employee and that of the employers. Bordering on fiction, OVERSEAS brings to light the question of modern servitude in our globalized world, while emphasizing these women’s determination, their sisterhood, and the strategies they find to face the ordeals that awaits them in the near future.
Yoon Sung-A is a French-Korean artist and filmmaker based in Brussels. In the 2000s, she made about ten videos, shown mainly in the contemporary art field (Jeu de Paume museum, Busan Biennale, Palais de Tokyo, Bernard Anthonioz Art Center, etc). Her graduating short fiction film "ET DANS MON CŒUR J’EMPORTERAI" (2008) was selected at Cannes Film Festival and then screened internationally. In 2012, she went to South Korea in search of her long-lost father and ended up with her first documentary feature: "FULL OF MISSING LINKS". Her second documentary feature film “OVERSEAS”, shot in the Philippines in a training center for domestic work, world premiered at Locarno Film Festival (Cineasti del presente) in 2019. Multi-awarded, it was screened in more than 80 film festivals worldwide such as MoMA-Doc Fortnight, Busan International Film Festival, BFI London FF, Camden IFF, Atlanta Film Festival, etc. She is currently developing her debut fictional feature film.
CREDITS
Quentin Laurent
Hanne Phypo
Sébastien Andres.
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