Way Back Home (Jibeuro Ganeun Gil) directed by Pang Eun-Jin

• Event Date: Monday, April 25, 2016
• Time: 7:00 pm (CDT)
• Location: Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana, IL
• Cost: Free Admission

• Film

Way Back Home (2013, 131 minutes) chronicles the struggles of a young woman trying to return home to South Korea, after an arrest in Paris and imprisonment on the island of Martinique. This screening will be followed by a discussion with film director Pang Eun-Jin.

South Korean actress and director Pang Eun-Jin made her directorial debut with Princess Aurora (2005), for which she won Best New Director at the 29th Golden Cinematography Awards and Best New Director at the 25th Korean Critics' Choice Awards. Her other films include Perfect Number (2012).

This Center for Advanced Study event is cosponsored by the Asian American Students Association, Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Department of English, Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, Department of Media and Cinema Studies, Korean International Transfer Students Association, Korean Students Association, Liberty in North Korea, Program in Comparative and World Literature, School of Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics, Spurlock Museum, Unit One/Allen Hall, and University Library.