Directed by Christina YR Lim
Narrative| 99 Minutes | English/Korean
A year after the sudden death of her mother, TAYLOR, a 14-year-old adoptee has secretly grown obsessed with finding her birth family in Korea. The loss has also taken a severe toll on her relationship with her father, BILL, a high school teacher who medicates his grief with alcohol. As summer begins, a Korean family unexpectedly immigrates to her all-white neighborhood and Taylor befriends a new maternal figure, AREUM who agrees to help locate her birth family. As the two grow closer, Areum’s own struggle with the loss of her old life and home helps Taylor connect with her Korean roots and grieve her mother’s death. But as they delve deeper into her birth family’s unforeseen truth about Taylor’s origins that threatens to break her already fragile bond with her father.
Advisory: Mild violence, Teen bullying.
Director’s Bio – Christina YR Lum
Christina YR Lim is a Korean–American writer/director who explores the Asian diaspora through fish-out-of-water, and coming-of-age stories. Lim’s first feature film as an auteur, B-SIDE: FOR TAYLOR recently premiered at Cinequest and will be screened at RiverRun, CAAMFest, LAAPFF and more. She is currently developing her second feature, and is a fellow of The Black List x Women In Film Feature Residency, and Cine Qua Non’s Storyline’s lab.
Q&A with filmmaker follows film
