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.
Akvilė Žilionytė
Akvilė Žilionytė (1987) is a young Lithuanian film director playing with hybrid forms between the fiction and documentary.
She studied linguistics and literature, published two books. In 2018 graduated Master‘s degree in Film Directing at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre.
Her first short documentary „The daytime is not for me“ (19 min.) premiered in Hamburg International Short Film Festival 2017 and screened in Vienna, Tirana, Vilnius, Riga, Berlin, Bucharest, Istanbul etc.
