Film Screening

Film Screening:  "Spirits' Homecoming, Unfinished Story"

Thursday, December 14, 2017 5:00 pm - 8:30 pm Marvin Center Amphitheater (3rd Floor) 800 21st Street, NW Washington, DC 20052 *Event is free of charge* Reception before film-screening and Q&A session with Director Jungrae Cho after the screening.

About the Film (From Director Jungrae Cho) "Spirits' Homecoming, Unfinished Story" is part dramatization and part documentary. It is a visual testimony of the "Comfort Women," and it contains additional scenes from the movie "Spirits' Homecoming" along with filmed documentations of the "Comfort Women" from the House of Sharing archives. Through their testimonies, we provide proof of the victims of Japanese war crimes during WWII and the unspeakable atrocities they experienced. Unfortunately, a satisfying resolution has still not been achieved. We hope this film can further ignite discussions about this issue and make us think about what we can do to contribute and make a difference. "Spirits' Homecoming" was released in 2016 and has been screened globally after its release in South Korea. In the hopes to bring awareness about the issue of Japanese military sexual slavery, the film was screened at 10 different countries in 61 cities over 1,300 times and over 100 lectures. Many viewers who encountered this painful past for the first time have continuously asked, "Did this really happen"?

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This event is organized by the Washington Coalition for Comfort Women Issues (WCCW). The WCCW was founded in December 1992 in Washington D.C. to advocate rights of wartime victims and their lawful reparations. Our mission is to contribute to eradication and prevention of sex crimes against women by promoting public awareness.  WCCW is dedicated to being the voice for "Comfort Women" victims who were euphemistically called by the Japanese Imperial Military to refer to women who were imprisoned and forced into sexual slavery during the World War II.  WCCW is an independent, non-profit, non-partisan, research and educational organization.

This event is co-sponsored by the GW Institute for Korean Studies (GWIKS). GWIKS is part of the Elliott School for International Affairs at the George Washington University. The establishment of GWIKS in 2016 was made possible by a generous grant from the Academy of Korean Studies (AKS). The mission of the GWIKS is to consolidate, strengthen, and grow the existing Korean studies program at GW, and more generally in the greater D.C. area. To find out more about GWIKS, please click  here!

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