Coming of Age

Premiering at Sundance earlier this year, Paloma Schneideman’s coming-of-age debut launches our festival with a tender portrait of 14-year-old Sid, as she tentatively traverses insecurity, identity and desire during the summer of 2006.

When a confident high school student refuses to add her name to a petition against a sex offender, questions mount over why in this superb and psychologically complex drama exploring trauma responses to abuse in modern Korea.