Minari

by Lee Isaac Chung

Korea, United States

Director : Lee Isaac Chung

Script : Lee Isaac Chung 

Photographer : Lachlan Milne  

Editing : Harry Yoon 

Sound : Lee Yong-ok 

Music : Emile Mosseri 

Actors : Steven Yeun, Yeri Han, Alan Kim, Cho Noel, Kate Youn, Yuh-Jung, Will Patton 

Production : Plan B Entretainment 


Distributor : 

Year : 2020

Screening : 2023

DCP, black and white, 115 mn, OV english SUBFR

Jury and Public Awards
Sundance 2020

An American family of South Korean origin settles in Arkansas where the father wants to become a farmer. His little boy has to get used to this new life and to the presence of his Korean grandmother, whom he did not know. “The character of the child, David, I imagined by using memories I had of my fears, my moments of excitement and curiosity as a child as well as the way my daughter experiences important moments of her childhood. David has become a mixture of what I would have liked to say to myself as a boy and what I wanted to say to my daughter... I wanted to avoid making my characters into the representatives of social and political archetypes. Minari is the story of an Ameri-Korean family but I hope it will move spectators wherever they come from and whatever their childhood was like. My father settled in the United States dreaming romantically of a land able to fulfill all its promises. But I have often been able to witness how much harder reality really is.” Lee Isaac Chung