After winning a Special Jury Prize for Independent Vision at Sundance for her first film, “In Between Days,” director So Yong Kim was invited to workshop her project “Treeless Mountain” at the exhaustive and consistently effective Sundance Writers and Directors labs.

A US/Korean co-production, South Korean native Kim who cites Belgian directors the Dardenne Brothers and Russian master Andrei Tarkovsky as major influences in her work describes Treeless Mountain, which debuted at Cannes in 2007, and making its Canadian debut at the Toronto Film Festival 2008, as the story of a girl who must watch over her sister when their mother leaves to find their missing father. The girls end up living with their alcoholic aunt in the countryside. Seen from the point of view of the children, the film affords a rare perspective of Kim’s hometown Pusan, and South Korea in general.

Showtimes:

Friday September 05    05:15PM     AMC 3
Sunday September 07    01:30PM    AMC 3
Saturday September 13    01:00PM    AMC 3