In the Absence

Built from raw footage, rescue communications and testimony, the film reconstructs the 2014 sinking of the Sewol ferry and the failures that cost more than 300 lives, most of them schoolchildren.

An Oscar-nominated, devastating reckoning with a national tragedy, laying bare how the people meant to save lives failed to act.

When the passenger ferry MV Sewol sank off the coast of South Korea in 2014, over three hundred people lost their lives, most of them schoolchildren. Years later, the victims’ families and survivors are still demanding j

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