DocHouse: The Woman, The Orphan and The Tiger

THE WOMAN, THE ORPHAN, AND THE TIGER explores ways in which trauma is passed on from previous generations to the present through a sense of being haunted.

Following a group of transnational adoptees and other women of the Korean diaspora in their 20s and 30s, the film unveils how the return of the repressed confronts and destabilises narratives that have been constructed to silence histories of pain and violence inflicted onto the bodies and lives of women and children.

The screening will be followed by a collective reading of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s magnum opus Dictee, a genre-bending masterpiece that addresses the fragmentation of language, image and memory.