2024 Banff Centre Mountain Film and Book Festival

Determination Mixed Films

Expired November 9, 2023 6:59 AM
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Have the time of your life fly fishing, learn about a centuries diving lifestyle in Korea and join world class skier D-Ran on a journey of ancestry. Get compulsive about a new route on the South Face of Nuptse, ask Jojo about saving amphibians or listen to the heart of a moving glacier.


Films Included:

After You’ve Gone (12 mins)

Daughter of the Sea (17 mins)

Descendance (32 mins)

Nuptse: Touching the Intangible (67 mins)

Jojo – A Toad Musical (9 mins)

Crying Glacier (14 mins)


Photo credit: Michael Overbeck


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After Jaeyoun Kim, a native of Mara Island in South Korea, moves to Seoul to pursue corporate work, she struggles with depression and suicidal thoughts. She decides to return home where generations of women in her family have worked as haenyeo, free-diving “mermaids” who harvest seafood from the ocean floor for a living. Weaving Kim’s narrative with pensive, deeply immersive dive cinematography, directors Nicole Gormley and Nancy Kwon tell a story of homecoming, and how nature can bring us back to self when we’ve lost our center.


Photo credit: Nicole Gormley

  • Year
    2023
  • Runtime
    16:45
  • Language
    English
  • Country
    USA
  • Premiere
    Canadian Premiere
  • Director
    Nicole Gormley, Nancy Kwon
  • Producer
    Backroads Pictures, Monika McClure, Alex Lowther, Nicole Gormley, Kevin Hoban, Peter Goetz, Jaeha "Thomas" Kim, Min Chul Shin, Sooyoung "Suzy" Kim