Saturday, April 28th - 7:15 pm - St. Anthony Main Sunday, April 29th - 2:30 pm - St. Anthony Main   Director: In-soo Radstake   Director Present When he was three months old, film director In-Soo Radstake arrived at Schiphol Airport. Just like the eight other orphans in the same aircraft, he had been adopted by a Dutch couple. Radstake, never looked into his Korean background while growing up and 25 years later he still feels 100% meat-and-potatoes Dutch. But this certainty comes to an end when he decides to look for his former travelling companions.

Falling in love with one of them, he finds out that his girlfriend now is looking back to her unique roots, and returning home to rediscover bonds with her birth parents. He eventually decides to travel also to Seoul amid this blossoming romance and look for his birth mother. While he hopes to find her, the journey is for him largely a quest into his own abandonment and the search for a past he never knew existed. Conversations with his girlfriend and others form Chapter One in this searching rite of passage. Until the director finds himself in a new chapter, that could have happily ended in tears, hugs, smiles and flowers on a Korean TV program — but doesn’t.

In Korean & Dutch with English subtitles, Netherlands, 73 minutes, 2006, DigiBeta

Presented in conjunction with MN Still Present Pasts, University of Minnesota Consortium for the Study of the Asias & The University of Minnesota Symposia on Time, sponsored by Institute for Advanced Study