Blue Mountain. White Cloud.
Nominated on:Best Short Documentary
Film Info
Film Year: 2024
Film Duration: 11 min
Country: Lithuania
Language: Lithuanian
Director
Miglė Križinauskaitė Bernotienė
Film Category
Synopsis
There is a story circulating among Zen Buddhist monks about two types of monks. First ones are settled and spend all their life in a monastery, they are identified with the blue mountains, while others are like white clouds – constantly traveling from one place to another. In the film, the filmmaker and Won Bo Sunim, a Lithuanian woman who decided to go to South Korea more than 20 years ago and become a Zen monk, embark on a journey in the mountains of South Korea.