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LKFF 2026 Opening Gala: The Journey to Gyeong-ju + Q&A with Director Kim Mi-jo and Actor Lee Jung-eun
Mon 02 Nov, 6:15pm
BFI Southbank
Ok-sil (Lee Jung-eun) and her three adult daughters (Kong Hyo-jin, Park So-dam, Lee Yeon) may seem merely to be out on a family pilgrimage to commemorate the birthday of Ok-sil’s long-deceased youngest daughter Gyeong-ju, but in fact this is a journey of revenge. The yellow combi van in which these characters are travelling points to both the similar vehicle (and similar dysfunctional...
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LKFF 2026 Closing Gala : Tristes Tropiques + Q&A with Director Park Hoon-jung
Mon 16 Nov, 6:15pm
BFI Southbank
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Time of Cinema
극장의 시간들
Thu 05 Nov, 6:20pm
BFI Southbank
This reflexive anthology comprises a framing story in a projection booth, and three short films: Lee Jong-pil’s Chimpanzee , Yoon Ga-eun’s Naturally and Jang Kun-jae’s The Time of Younghwa. All are set — to varying degrees — in a cinema, and all pose questions about what movies are for, where their magic lies, and how their on-screen fictions are able to trigger memories, mediate drea...
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Be My Baby + Intro by Programmer Anton Bitel
Sun 08 Nov, 6:10pm
BFI Southbank
Indebted Seorim has a plan to use runaway Sumi to improve her own situation. However, she’s not the only person hatching plans. Yoo Jong-seok’s feature debut is an accomplished thriller involving twins, substitutes, duplicates and ghosts. As the set-up increases in complexity, it highlights a strong social dimension, shining a light on marginalised groups that are all-too-easily...
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Mongrels + Intro
Thu 12 Nov, 6:10pm
BFI Southbank
Widower Sonny moves with his teen son Ha-joon and much younger daughter Hana to a rural Canadian town, to take up a job hunting stray dogs. It’s a welcoming, though slightly strange, land, requiring all three to forge new paths, while holding on to their past. Korean-Canadian Jerome Yoo’s feature debut employs dreamy magical realism to offer a fascinating take on the diasp...
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