A Girl At My Door is South Korean writer/director July Jung’s first feature film and stars Sense8 actress Doona Bae as Young-nam, a promising police school graduate who has been posted to a rural backwater after her lesbianism is discovered. Here she finds a community in thrall to exploitative local businessman Yong-ha, whose motherless stepdaughter Dohee is frequently subjected to his drunken beatings.
Doona Bae (right) with Kim Sae Ron in Korean thriller A Girl At My Door
Nominated for the Un Certain Regard award at Cannes 2014, A Girl At My Door presents a clear-eyed critique of a society that demonizes individuals on the basis of sex, race and sexuality, while ignoring and excusing domestic child abuse.