Sound of Nomad: Koryo Arirang
0 votes
The documentary starts with a diva of a tragic family history related to a history of migration. The rare archival footage reanimates her history reverberating with the current world crisis. Sound of Nomad: Koryo Arirang is a testimonial – a witness to injustice and tragedy, but it is also a declaration of survival – a survival that is not static but transformative – not brittle but fluid. The trains that displace, the deserts that separate form one harsh horizon – a historical limit – but within that limit, against it and across it are people, are a culture, not escaping but flourishing unofficially, with the affective majesty of a melody, a rhythm, an Arirang
Status: Released
Released Date: 2017-05-25
Runtime: 96 mins
Director: Kim So-young
Spoken language: Pусский, 한국어/조선말
Genres: Documentary
Original title: Sound of Nomad: Koryo Arirang
Production Companies: Cinema Dal
Production Countries: South Korea
Recommendations
Don't Cry for Me Sudan
2010-09-09
A Schweitzer of Korea Father LEE Tae-seok, devoted his life in Sudan; a remote area of Africa.
Don't Cry for Me Sudan: Shukran Baba
2020-01-09
Tonj, Sudan is the land with only desperation from poverty and war. This is the story about priest a
Diaspora: Arirang Road
2019-12-12
During the Japanese occupation period, Koreans were forced to deport or drafted to work in other cou
Ryeohaeng
2019-08-08
A group of women climbs a summer mountain situated in South Korea. They are refugees who have settle
Baboya
2011-04-21
The piercing cold of 10 below zero wasn't even a problem. In February, 2009, about 400,000 people ga
To Kill Alice
2019-08-08
Eunmi, a woman who underwent intense anti-communist education while she grew up in South Korea, live
Things That Do Us Part
2019-11-28
Things That Do Us Part is a documentary that reframes the stories of three women fighters who dove i
Diving Women of Jeju-do
2007-01-01
Jeju-do is the largest of Korean islands and lies between Korea and Japan. There, for hundreds of ye
Twinsters
2015-07-17
Adopted from South Korea, raised on different continents & connected through social media, Saman
Army
2018-10-05
"You belong to the country for the next two years." The film describes Woo-cheol's struggles with be
The Wandering Chef
2020-10-07
Jiho Im is a world-class chef who wanders the mountainous Korean peninsula on foot for unorthodox in
Gravity of the Tea
2019-11-28
IM Kwon-taek is a Korean film-maker. He was born in 1934 when his country was under Japanese occupat
Red Maria 2
2015-09-18
Korean sex worker Yonhee goes to Japan to build solidarity with her counterparts there. YAMASITA You
The Ukishima Maru Massacre
2019-09-19
22nd of August, 1945. Japan lost the war and they loaded an 8,000 person Joseon laborer force onto
President - Documentary
2019-11-07
Geographies of Kinship
2019-11-10
In this powerful tale about the rise of Korea’s global adoption program, four adult adoptees return
Locals
2025-08-12
Joint Security Area
2000-09-09
Two North Korean soldiers are killed in the border area between North and South Korea, prompting an
Hill of Freedom
2014-09-04
Kwon returns to Seoul from a restorative stay in the mountains. She is given a packet of letters lef
The Last Eve
2004-12-14
"The Last Eve" is a film that takes the audience on an emotional adventure through history. In a way