My Barefoot Friend (0+)
South Korea, 2010, colour, 81 min.
Director: Seong-Gyou Lee
Director: Seong-Gyou Lee
In Calcutta, 20,000 feet are running tangled up, all barefoot. They are rickshaw pullers, slowly disappearing out of the city’s landscape. Among them are Manoj, an unstable young man, Mohammed, a lovely trickster who more often fails than succeeds, and Hussein the street sage who knows all about the city. And Shallim, an ordinary man, a husband of a wife, a father of a son. Is there any hope left for barefoot Calcutta?
Seong-Gyou Lee
Seong-Gyou Lee
was born in Chuncheon, South Korea in 1963. Lee studied social welfare and began his career as a screenwriter for radio and TV in 1990. Shortly afterward, he started directing and producing documentaries. Besides filmmaking, Lee has worked as a freelance journalist. His main focus has been on Nepali and Indian migrant workers and their social and cultural issues.
FILMOGRAPHY
"The Women Who Remaried God", 2002; "A Letter From Himalaya", "Саlcutta Street Angels", 2003; "Mustang, a Land of Hermits", "A Return", 2004; "A Great Journey of the Mongolian Nomads, 2005; "Mongolian Snow Land Meets Caribous", , "Hussein and Shallimm’s Calcutta Story", 2006; "Naina and Sangkar’s Cinema Paradise", 2007; "Mustang, the Heavennly Path", "Children of God", 2008; "My Barefoot Friend", 2010.
South Korea, 2010, colour, 81 min.
Director: Seong-Gyou Lee
Director: Seong-Gyou Lee
In Calcutta, 20,000 feet are running tangled up, all barefoot. They are rickshaw pullers, slowly disappearing out of the city’s landscape. Among them are Manoj, an unstable young man, Mohammed, a lovely trickster who more often fails than succeeds, and Hussein the street sage who knows all about the city. And Shallim, an ordinary man, a husband of a wife, a father of a son. Is there any hope left for barefoot Calcutta?