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HOME GROUND [홈그라운드]
Aram Kwon; 2022; South Korea; 78 min. Korean, with English subtitles

“Brother” Myung-woo has been running Lesbos, South Korea’s first Lesbian bar, since 1996. And while this queer haven is definitely paradise, it’s certainly no island. Aram Kwon’s sensitive and hilarious documentary ruminates on memory and space, tracing the evolution of lesbian and queer spaces in South Korea from the 1970s to today. You’ll fall in love with the firecracker of a protagonist Myung-woo as Kwon centers their irreplaceable impact as well as the very present threats to queer survival posed by COVID, transphobic violence, and homophobic government policy. While HOME GROUND starts with a Korean lesbian bar, it transcends time and place to demonstrate the vital need for commonality shared by all lesbian, gender non-conforming, transgender, and queer people everywhere.

CONTENT WARNING: DISCUSSION OF TRANSPHOBIC VIOLENCE, DISCUSSION OF SUICIDE