#Malene Choi Jensen

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Film after film: Stille Liv (The Quiet Migration, dir. Malene Choi, 2023)

There's a moment, also exposed in the trailer, that made me think that this film would be a rural and more compact version of Memoria: there's an otherwordly taste to it, and the sound that has a similarly rupturing quality. But this is an incidental yet narratively important intrusion. The film's protagonist, naturalized from South Korea into the Danish countryside's family, encounters micro- and macro-racist remarks and behaviors, while also having to tackle his soon-to-be-retired adoptive parents' expectations to take over their farm.

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Hot Docs Interview: Malene Choi Jensen (The Return)

Hot Docs Interview: Malene Choi Jensen (The Return)

At the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival (Hot Docs) I had the opportunity to sit down with director Malene Choi Jensen and talk about her docu-drama, The Return. The Returnis a fascinating film, not just because of the subject matter – transnational adoption, specifically from South Korea – which is interesting in its own right, but also because of how it was filmed, as a…