TREELESS MOUNTAIN

Year: 2008
UK: Soda Pictures
Cast: Hee Yeon Kim, Song Hee Kim, Lee Hyun Seo, Ha Min Woo, Kim Mi Jung, Jung Gil Ja, Hee-yeon Kim, Soo-ah Lee, Lee Byung Yong
Director: So Yong Kim
Countries: USA / South Korea
Language: Korean (English subtitles)
UK: 89 mins
UK Certificate: PG contains infrequent mild language
UK Release Date: 8 January2010 (Limited Release)
UK Distributor

Synopsis

7 year-old Jin and her younger sister, Bin, are to spend the summer with their Big Aunt while their mother has left home to search for her estranged husband. Leaving her daughter's a small piggy bank she has promised to return when it's full.

This promise is unfulfilled when the girls achieve their goal and the piggy bank is filled but their mother doesn't come back. When Big Aunt decides she can't care for her nieces any longer, the girls are uprooted again and taken to their grandparents' farm and while here Jin discovers the importance of family bonds in this beautiful, meditative, and thought-provoking second feature from So Yong Kim, the acclaimed director of IN BETWEEN DAYS.