Helen Lee

Solongo is a Mongolian expatriate living in Seoul with her American husband. Myungjin, recently returned to her native country after 10 years abroad studying painting, feels equally displaced. Through the mysterious connection of a 10 year old girl riding past on a kick scooter, the two women find unexpected solace and hope for the future as they confront the choices they made in their lives.

Alessa Woo (Lee) is an ambitious art dealer who meets her match in gifted painter Ben Crowchild (Beach) in this romantic comedy.

3.8/10

Subrosa traces a young woman's journey to Korea, the land of her birth, to find the mother she's never known.

6.6/10

A young woman falls in love with a shoplifter in her family's convenience store, setting off a series of mishaps involving a lost doll, a loaded gun and a grandmother who speaks only Korean.

7.5/10

Shadowed by the death of her mother, Julie Kumagai's life with her widower father is marked by pained, turbulent exchanges. Indifferent to a break-up with her boyfriend and the lure of a long-planned trip, she finds some refuge in her workplace where she meets Tetsuro, a young Korean man newly emigrated from Japan who is obsessed with all things American. But together they discover no easy resolutions.

A large black mole above an Asian woman's breast serves as a metaphor for cultural and racial difference in this engaging experimental film. Off-screen women's voices and scenes from THE WORLD OF SUZIE WONG parallel and counterpoint Sally's own interracial relationships and emerging self-awareness. A provocative and stylish meditation on Asian femininity.

7/10