Home Ground

Directed by Kwon Aram (권아람)

Written by • Kwon Aram (권아람) • Lee Dong-kyung (이동경)

85min | Release date in South Korea: 2023/12/06

Synopsis
In 1996, Korea's first lesbian bar, Lesbos opened. 'Myung-woo', who runs the bar that reopened in 2019, is struggling to protect it amid the Coronavirus crisis. The film reflects on the three spaces that performed similar roles to that of Lesbos through reenactments and interviews. In the 1970s, lesbians used to spend time at Chanel, a women-only coffee shop in Myeong-dong. In the early 2000s, teenage lesbians formed a community in 'Sinchon Park'. Myeong-woo experienced the twists and turns of lesbian-only spaces in person from the 1970s to the present as a customer of 'Chanel' and as the owner of 'Lesbos', a bar across from 'Sinchon Park'. Even though the times and places are different, visitors remember these spaces as comfortable and safe places, and precious liberated zones which had allowed them to form their own identity. "Home Ground" is a film that shows the necessity and self-reliance of a lesbian community that transcends time.

14th DMZ International Documentary Film Festival

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