Eternal River

‘Eternal River’ traces a family’s history of resilience in the wake of loss and displacement. The filmmaker’s grandfather, who lost both his hand and family during the Korean War, built a home that has anchored three generations. Now, as government dam policies threaten their claim to this space, her uncle and mother persist in their daily rituals—repairing the house, tending the garden. Their gestures carry a quiet awareness that the home will not remain theirs, yet they continue, as if the act of care itself might hold it in place a little longer.