This year, for the first time, an FIT Film and Media student, Jean Kim ’26, will be featured at DOC NYC, the highly competitive documentary film festival. Kim’s autobiographical eight-minute film, If You Forget, I’ll Remember, captures a heartfelt visit with her ailing grandfather, exploring the quiet complexities and unspoken dynamics within her family.
“I didn’t originally set out to tell a family story,” Kim says. “I planned to only interview my grandpa while I was visiting my family in Korea.” But the project evolved into “a personal, intimate family diary,” she explains.
Kim’s selection for DOC NYC comes as no surprise to Dahlia Schweitzer, chair of Film, Media, and Performing Arts, who describes Kim’s work as “consistently gorgeous. Everything she creates is beautiful, with an incredible attention to lighting, focus, depth of field, and atmosphere.”
If You Forget, I’ll Remember will screen at Village East by Angelika theater on Thursday, November 21, at 3:30 pm, with tickets available here. You can also stream the film on the NYC DOC site from November 13 to December 1, as DOC NYC, the largest documentary film festival in the U.S., celebrates its 15th anniversary.