2010
Cannes Film Festival
最佳編劇獎、基督教評審團獎｜金棕櫚獎提名
最佳編劇獎、基督教評審團獎｜金棕櫚獎提名
最佳導演、最佳編劇｜最佳影片提名
最佳女演員獎
最佳影片、最佳女主角、最佳男配角、最佳編劇｜最佳導演、最佳攝影、最佳服裝設計提名
Celebrated Korean director Lee Chang-dong is hailed as a “poet of cinema.” With his background as a novelist, he masterfully captures the harsh realities of life at the margins with delicate nuance. Peppermint Candy unfolds in reverse from a man’s final moments, revealing how a once-hopeful youth is worn down by fate into someone he never wanted to become. Oasis portrays a forbidden, unconventional romance between an ex-convict and the sister of his victim, where love becomes the only refuge in a barren reality. In Poetry, a graceful elderly woman is forced to confront the shattering truths of life, learning that reality is rarely as beautiful as imagined. Join Giloo in revisiting Lee Chang-dong’s timeless classics, which lay bare the raw, unflinching truths of human existence.
In times of turmoil, I find myself drawn to documentaries. There’s something profoundly moving in watching people carve out a sense of “home” amid chaos—guarding a fragment of peace and expanding the inner landscape of the heart. I’ve always loved the phrase “a heart set on distant meaning.” We are born into constraints and often stumble through thorns, but perhaps it’s precisely these entanglements that awaken our yearning for freedom and for becoming. With that in mind, I’ve selected three documentaries. Some feature lives caught in inescapable webs; others portray souls that remain free, even when the body cannot move.
There are no absolutes in this world—not when it comes to life, nor to the environment. May we all be granted a beautiful pair of eyes—to see different truths, to reflect on different values. Like a kaleidoscope, the heart holds many shifting facets. And in that ever-changing view, we learn to see more fully.
Answer the call of instinct—leave behind the trivialities of daily life and embark on a pilgrimage of encounters with nature and literary exploration. On these journeys of adventure, where limits are tested and boundaries redefined, the soul is transformed. These inseparable life experiences continue to inspire others to move toward distant light. As we listen to their stories, may we too be moved to shoulder our backpacks—and set out to meet a new version of ourselves.