Filmscreening

"My Heart Is Not Broken Yet"

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Filmscreening "My Heart Is Not Broken Yet"
The Struggle of Song Sin-do, a Zainichi former "Comfort Woman"
🗓️ 14. FEB, Doors: 6:30 PM, Start: 7 PM
✨ In presence of the producer Yang Jing-ja
🎟️ Admission on a donation basis | Auf Spendenbasis (Anmeldung s. Link in der Bio/registration see link in bio)

In Korean and Japanese language with English subtitles
In koreanischer und japanischer Sprache, eng. untertitelt

‘The human heart is shrouded in darkness just an inch ahead. I absolutely never trust people.’

This documentary follows Song Sin-do, a woman who was a bundle of distrust, as she encounters people willing to accept her entirely and, through the process of fighting her court case, gradually regains trust in others and in herself. Song Sin-do was born in 1922 in Chungcheong-namdo in Korea. At the age of 16 (1938), she was deceived and forced into “comfort woman” system in Wuchang, central China. She learned of Japan’s defeat in Xianning, but with nowhere to go, she clung to a sliver of hope offered by a Japanese soldier who said, “Let’s get married and go to Japan,” and travelled there. However, upon arriving at Hakata Port on a repatriation ship in the spring of 1946, the soldier’s attitude changed completely, and she was abandoned in a foreign land. In April 1993, she filed a lawsuit against the Japanese government demanding the ‘delivery of an apology letter’ and an ‘official apology in the Diet’. To support this lawsuit, the ‘Support Group for the Lawsuit of Korean Former “Comfort Women” Resident of Japan’ was formed in January 1993.

Funded by donations from 670 individuals who supported and watched over Ms. Song’s legal battle, this work advocates for the importance of approaching the “comfort women issue” not merely as a “problem”, but from the perspective of the “people” involved.

The producer, Yang Jing-ja will be at the screening and the talk afterwards.

Credits:
Directed: Ahn Hae-ryong | Produced: Yang Jing-ja | Starring: Song Sin-do | Narrator: Moon So-ri | Cinematography: Park Jeong-sik, Yang Jing-ja, Ahn Hae-ryong | Music: Pak Poe
2007 (Japan), 95 minutes

Triggerwarnung:
Beschreibung sexualisierter Gewalt
Description of sexualized violence