Haru's New Year
Director
Alice Il ShinProducers
Alice Il Shin Eiko Kawabe BrownSubjects
Drama Immigration Youth- Release Date 2018
- Running Time 18 minutes
- Closed Captions Yes
- Availability Canada, USA
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Haru's New Year follows a young Japanese immigrant to Canada dealing with isolation and loneliness in a new land. On her first day of middle school in Canada, Haru has difficulty reaching out to the other students because of her shyness and poor English language ability. Even though she tries hard, embarrassment and stress continue to build up in Haru as the day progresses. Just when Haru feels like giving up, she meets another outsider named Frances on her way home from school. Strangely, they both feel like kindred spirits despite their differences of language, style, and culture. Discovering they are actually neighbours, the two walk home together with hope.
Director: Alice Il Shin
Producers: Alice Il Shin, Eiko Kawabe Brown
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Artist's Statement
My current film, Haru's New Year, was filmed in light of a great many changes in my life. At the same time that Haru, the titular character, was adjusting to her new life in Canada, so too was I adjusting to my environment as a newly landed immigrant in Ontario. It was not the first time I had left behind my home, and within that whirlwind of change I began to remember many of the lessons I had learned during my previous immigration experience.
As a high school student, I left my native Korea for Japan. It was not an easy time in my life, made worse by my lack of Japanese language proficiency. Simply being a teenager can be hard enough; being a teenager away from one's family, away from one's language, and away from one's culture is infinitely worse. Those initial months were lonely, depressing, and, most of all, discouraging. Without language, a real sense of self disappears; without the self, there is little else in a human. Over time, though, I began to fall in love with my new 'home,' even if I missed my 'homeland.' The people around me became a family I could rely on, and I soon found that I was incorporating my new surroundings into the sense of self that I had thought I lost. Wherever I went thereafter, I carried both my Korean and Japanese lives along with me.
"Haru's New Year" was a product of these lived experiences, drawing on my feelings as a young woman in Japan and translating it into my present as an immigrant to Canada. Yet the story of Haru is more than that of a single person. The outpouring of support from the Japanese-Canadian community in Toronto presented me with dozens of stories that shaped the film into what it is today. In this sense, I believe "Haru's New Year" speaks to all the things I admire most in all of my adopted countries: sincerity, simplicity, and, above all, an earnestness to accept those who are different.
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