Overseas
In the Philippines, many women choose to go work abroad as domestic workers or nannies to support their own families. Many feel forced to leave their own children behind and throw themselves into the unknown. In one of the training centers dedicated to domestic work that can be found in the Philippines, a group of trainees are preparing for both homesickness and the potential abuse lying ahead. During role playing exercises, they act out both the role of the employee and the employers. Overseas brings to light the question of modern servitude, while emphasizing these women’s determination, their sisterhood, and the strategies they utilize to face the ordeals that await them in the near future.
Sung-A Yoon is a French cinematographer and artist who was born in South Korea, but is based in Brussels. She graduated from the National Superior School of Fine Arts of Paris-Cergy in 2005, and from the INSAS, a cinema school in Brussels, in 2008. Her short movies, directed between 2001 and 2011, were shown at exhibitions such as the L’Atelier du Jeu de Paume and the Busan’s Biennale. Her first short fiction, And I'll Keep in My Heart, was selected to Cannes - Cinéfondation. In 2012 she began searching for her father who had been absent since her childhood, and ended up with her first documentary feature, Full of Missing Links.