On the shores of Jeju Island, a fierce group of South Korean divers fight to save their vanishing culture from looming threats.
Cinematography
Underwater shots so gorgeous you'll forget to breathe too.
Direction
Sue Kim lets the haenyeo speak—no narrator needed.
Sound
The dive whistles. Haunting. You'll hear them in your sleep.
Director
Sue Kim
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The haenyeo were once the breadwinners while men stayed home—a rare matrifocal society that colonialism and capitalism systematically dismantled.
Director Sue Kim is Korean-American and made this after discovering her own grandmother had been a haenyeo—information buried by family shame about 'low-class' work.
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