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Jo, whose previous works include \u201cThe Continuing Land\u201d (2022) and \u201cMerely Known as Something Else,\u201d both screened at Busan, said the idea for her new film began with her grandmother\u2019s stroke-induced speech impairment. \u201cThe only person who could truly understand her fragmented words was my grandfather. After he passed away, I thought deeply about the isolation she was left with,\u201d she explains. Her own experience living abroad and confronting \u201cspaces between languages\u201d further shaped the film\u2019s direction. In her vision, water symbolizes \u201ca gesture of connection in the face of loss\u201d and the \u201cpossibilities that lie between two languages.\u201d<\/p>\n
The director frames the narrative within Korea and Japan…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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