Bora Lee-Kil
Bora Lee-Kil (1990) is a South Korean writer and filmmaker, graduate from the Film Academy in Amsterdam. She believes that being born to and raised by deaf parents has given her the best gift of storytelling. She dropped out of school at the age of sixteen and traveled South East Asia for 8 months. This experience inspired her first film, Road-Schooler (2008) which also resulted in a book, Road is School (2009).
Following this, she studied film-making at Korea National University of Arts. Glittering Hands (2014) is an award-winning documentary based on her stories of growing up moving back and forth between two worlds – one of silence and one of sounds. Her film A war of memories (2019) is selected to the Wide-angle Documentary Competition of the Busan International Film Festival where it will have its world premiere. The film received the jury’s special mention for the Mecenat Award at the Busan International Film Festival in 2018. During the Vietnam War, the Korean army massacred an entire village. A few survivors spoke out, revealing what really happened that day but their statement still hangs in the air, unrecognized officially. The memory of the war becomes a war of memories.
She has been selected for Berlinale Talents 2020 and her new project Our Bodies was selected for Doc Station of Belittle Talents 2020. In the same year she won the Young Art Support Amsterdam Award.
