Directing
Choi Woo-young
Born
1977-10-04 (49)
Known for
Directing
Credits
5 titles
Known for
7.0Two Danish-Korean adoptees return for the first time to the country they of their birth. Confronted with the spirit of their Motherland and the personal stories of the fellow adoptees they meet in the city of Seoul, Karoline and Thomas are hurled into an emotionally disorienting journey that forces both of them to question and face their own destiny and identity.
The Return
2018
NROn 9 November 1989, the Berlin Wall fell. Andreas, Marc, and Sonya, as young people at the time, had to face the sudden unification head-on. After leaving Germany, they are currently living in Korea as a pianist, a film production manager, and a researcher at Samsung Electronics respectively. When a mood of reconciliation between South and North Korea is developing in 2018, they are hopeful that they may face a second reunification. They come to think that North and South Korea of today bears subtle resemblance to East and West Germany in 1989 beyond time and space···.
1989 Berlin, Seoul Now
2021
7.0Can one day shape the rest of your life? A feature documentary on the South-Korean education system.
Reach for the SKY
2015
NRSandra, an orangutan who spent two decades in Buenos Aires Zoo, becomes the world's first non-human person recognized by an Argentine court. What seems a historic victory soon sparks a deeper question: where and how should she live as an intelligent being, as law and science seek to understand her mind?
Sandra, The Primate Citizen
2026
No synopsis available yet.
Here Comes Uncle Joe
2013
Behind the camera
7.0Two Danish-Korean adoptees return for the first time to the country they of their birth. Confronted with the spirit of their Motherland and the personal stories of the fellow adoptees they meet in the city of Seoul, Karoline and Thomas are hurled into an emotionally disorienting journey that forces both of them to question and face their own destiny and identity.
The Return
2018
NROn 9 November 1989, the Berlin Wall fell. Andreas, Marc, and Sonya, as young people at the time, had to face the sudden unification head-on. After leaving Germany, they are currently living in Korea as a pianist, a film production manager, and a researcher at Samsung Electronics respectively. When a mood of reconciliation between South and North Korea is developing in 2018, they are hopeful that they may face a second reunification. They come to think that North and South Korea of today bears subtle resemblance to East and West Germany in 1989 beyond time and space···.
1989 Berlin, Seoul Now
2021
7.0Can one day shape the rest of your life? A feature documentary on the South-Korean education system.
Reach for the SKY
2015
NRSandra, an orangutan who spent two decades in Buenos Aires Zoo, becomes the world's first non-human person recognized by an Argentine court. What seems a historic victory soon sparks a deeper question: where and how should she live as an intelligent being, as law and science seek to understand her mind?
Sandra, The Primate Citizen
2026
No synopsis available yet.
Here Comes Uncle Joe
2013
