Elder Son
Cecilia Kang
Argentina, France
2025
118 min
Lila, a young Korean-Argentine woman, navigates the contradictions of her identity and attempts to find her place in the world. Her father, Antonio, arrived in Latin America 18 years earlier and decided to risk everything on the promise of a young immigrant’s dream. A family epic that seeks to return to the past in order to reinvent the present.
Additional Information
The film Elder Son (BrLab Features 2018) received the Best Emerging Director award in the Cineastas del Presente section of the Locarno Festival in 2025.
Datasheet
DIRECTION: Cecilia Kang
SCREENPLAY: Cecilia Kang
PRODUCTION: Juan Pablo Miller, Louise Bellicaud, Claire Charles-Gervais
PRODUCTION COMPANY: Tarea Fina, In Vivo Films