Noksek Nundongja, Brownish Green

In the 1970s, on a small island called Amtae-do (The Big Rock), Sujung (13), raised with an iron fist by her mother, accidentally discovers an unidentified bundle in the mountains. Finding no one to listen to her and troubled by what she has seen, she decides to return to the mountains.

Born in Korea, with a BA in Film Studies from Université Paris 8, and currently pursuing a master’s at Ésam Caen. First short film, Brownish Green (2024), is set on a small island in southern Korea in the 1970s and is a fiction based on her mother’s childhood. The work begins from women’s everyday lives, moments when the body reacts before thought, gestures, habits, instinctive resistance. It looks at how what remains in the body, unspoken, carries across generations into the present.