2024 Academy Award Qualifying Short Film

Leah, a Korean adoptee raised in America, returns to Korea to search for her birth mother. Leah is met with secrecy from the adoption agency as well as her own family but remains relentless on her solo journey, driven by her longing to discover the truth of her origins.

Supported by the Katharina Otto-Bernstein Film Fund Award and the Caucus Foundation Film Grant.

Winner of the Caucus Foundation Gold Circle Award.

Produced in partial fulfillment of the MFA degree in Film at Columbia University School of the Arts.

Narrative short film, 2022.
Currently in the festival circuit.

FESTIVALS/SCREENINGS

2022 Palm Springs International Shortfest - Premiere
2022 Hamptons International Film Festival - Student Film Award
2023 Provincetown International Film Festival - Best Narrative Short Award
2023 HollyShorts Film Festival - Best Director Award
2023 Flickers’ Rhode Island International Film Festival
2023 Woodstock Film Festival
2023 San Diego International Film Festival
2023 Dallas International Film Festival
2023 Lighthouse International Film Festival
2023 Salute Your Shorts Film Festival
2023 Asian American International Film Festival
2022 TIDE Film Festival
2023 Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival

CAST & CREW

Writer & Director: Christina Yoon
Starring: Tiffany Chu, Kyung Hong, Taewoo Kim
Producers: Jungyoon Kim, Grace Merriman
Co-writer: Minkyu Kang
Cinematographer: Giorgos Valsamis
Line Producer: Seon Kwon Hwang
Production Designer: Ellie Jung
Editors: Christina Yoon, Alan Wu
Composer: Jude Shih