Documentary backdrop image for Halmoni (2022)

Documentary backdrop image for Halmoni (2022)

202214 minPGdoc-short

Halmoni

202214 minPGdoc-short

A young Mexican-Korean woman writes a letter to her grandmother after her death, expressing thoughts she could not share due to a language barrier.

Genres

Director

Hae Jin Cataño Lee

Synopsis

A young Mexican-Korean woman writes a letter to her grandmother after her death, expressing thoughts she could not share due to a language barrier.

People

Hae Jin Cataño Leedirector

Synopsis

A young woman reflects on her relationship with her grandmother, Halmoni, in the documentary essay "Halmoni." After her grandmother's death, she writes a letter to express feelings left unsaid during their time together. The film addresses the challenges faced by immigrant families, particularly the language barrier that affected their connection. It runs for 14 minutes and was released in 2022.

Comments

What are people saying?

Play More Like This

I'm Not From Here (2016)

I'm Not From Here

2016•26m•★7.5TMDB

An elderly woman in a Chilean retirement home reflects on her youth in the Spanish Basque Country, addressing memory loss and her sense of identity.

I'm Not From Here

Searching for My Long-Lost Grandmother (2021)

Searching for My Long-Lost Grandmother

After 43 years away, the narrator returns to Taiwan to search for their mother's family, who she was separated from at the age of five.

Searching for My Long-Lost Grandmother

Voices in the Clouds | Immigrants Documentary | Full Movie (2024)

Voices in the Clouds | Immigrants Documentary | Full Movie

Some experts estimate that fewer than ten living indigenous Taiwanese elders remain, putting their cultures at risk of disappearing.

Voices in the Clouds | Immigrants Documentary | Full Movie

Unmothered (2019)

Unmothered

Mona Guerrette's battle with breast cancer and her farewell message left a lasting impact on her husband and daughters, Mylène and Marie-France, after her death in 1995.

Explore Halmoni

Browse more like this

I'm Not From Here (2016)

I'm Not From Here

2016•26m•★7.5TMDB

An elderly woman in a Chilean retirement home reflects on her youth in the Spanish Basque Country, addressing memory loss and her sense of identity.

I'm Not From Here

No digital watch option in your country

Voices in the Clouds | Immigrants Documentary | Full Movie (2024)

Voices in the Clouds | Immigrants Documentary | Full Movie

Some experts estimate that fewer than ten living indigenous Taiwanese elders remain, putting their cultures at risk of disappearing.

Voices in the Clouds | Immigrants Documentary | Full Movie

No digital watch option in your country

Unmothered (2019)

Unmothered

Mona Guerrette's battle with breast cancer and her farewell message left a lasting impact on her husband and daughters, Mylène and Marie-France, after her death in 1995.

No digital watch option in your country

Joonam (2023)

Joonam

2023•1h40m•★10.0TMDB

A young filmmaker investigates her mother and grandmother's complicated pasts to reconnect with her Iranian roots after a lifetime of separation.

In Her Footsteps (2017)

In Her Footsteps

2017•1h10m•★7.0TMDB

Five children navigate their identities after their mother, diagnosed with breast cancer, faces a burial dilemma between her hometown and her family's current residence.

In Her Footsteps

Somewhere Over the Clouds (2007)

Somewhere Over the Clouds

2007•1h42m•★10.0TMDB

A series of emails written by the filmmaker to her late mentor, Robert Kramer, intertwine with a narrative about life, distance, and identity.

Somewhere Over the Clouds

Unfinished Diary (1982)

Unfinished Diary

1982•48m•★8.0TMDB

Marilú Mallet, a Chilean immigrant in Quebec, navigates family communication barriers while exploring themes of language and identity alongside exiles like Isabel Allende.

Unfinished Diary

Is this your film?

If you made this film or hold the rights to it, we'd like to talk. We can license it and pay you a share of what it earns.

License it with us →