Minsu Park
Directing
Known For
CHADDR is a feature documentary about a 17-year-old girl Stanzin. Her home town in the heart of Himalaya in Kashmir is facing big changes: Global warming and technological progress change the lives of people rapidly. Until recently children had to follow dangerous mountain pass every year to get from their home village to school. It takes Stanzin 4 days to get to school. The times are changing and the dangerous mountain pass will be turned into an autoroute. The director Minsu Park follows Stanzin on her last way to school, before she graduates and leaves her hometown forever.
Chaddr – A River Between Us
In April 2014, the South Korean ferry Sewol sinks. 304 people, most of them schoolchildren, drowned. Greed and official failure contributed to the scale of the disaster. The government reacts restrictively against the rebellious parents of the victims. However, they are demanding a full investigation into the background.