11 minutes that'll wreck your entire worldview about who touches your back.
"Se Shin Sa" is a hybrid of fiction and documentary portraying an undocumented immigrant woman living and working as a masseuse in Korean town, L.A.
Direction
Blurred fiction-doc lines that make you question what you're seeing.
Acting
Zhenhua Jin's hands tell more story than most actors' whole bodies.
Director
Eunhye Hong Kim
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Kim worked with actual undocumented masseuses to build the hybrid form—some footage is 'stolen' from real spaces.
Released during heightened ICE activity in 2017, the film circulated underground in Korean-American activist circles before festival play.
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