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Korean Film Nights: 여운 | Lingering Fragments
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Posted: 3 June 2025
Category: General
What endures after conflict? What resonates in memory, image, and voice after tragedy? Whose voices are heard, and how might we move forward? These questions shape 여운 | Lingering Fragments, a film programme that brings together a broad selection of non-fiction and experimental works, highlighting the richness of Korean cinema and the multiplicity of voices working within it. In Kore...
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Han Okhi and Kaidu Club: A Cinema of Outsiders
Wed 18 Jun, 6:00pm
Korean Cultural Centre UK
There are two prejudices in cinema as it exists: filmmaking is only a man’s job, and movies should be a box office success. We, as outsiders, will break these two stereotypes. – Kaidu Club, Chosun Ilbo, March 30, 1974 In 1974, Han Okhi and a group of fellow students from Ewha Women’s University in Seoul founded the boldly experimental Kaidu Club, Korea’s first feminist film collective...
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Korean War Commemorative Screening : Forbidden Fatherland
Wed 25 Jun, 6:00pm
Korean Cultural Centre UK
Forbidden Fatherland focuses on listening to memories, pain, and the lived experiences of those forced to leave their families behind. It gives voice to those who grew up with absent relatives, to families marked by the trauma of displacement, and to the enduring sense of longing that persists 75 years later. The filmmaker, Kim Lyang, is a documentary director and the founder of Zone ...
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Women’s Oral Histories
Wed 02 Jul, 6:00pm
Korean Cultural Centre UK
This programme brings together two films that speak from vastly different moments in Korea’s feminist and queer history yet are bound by a shared insistence: to speak, to witness, and to survive. In Lesbian Censorship in School 1 (2005), director Lee Young offers a raw, first-person account of teenage queerness and institutional repression. Told through the camcorder of Chun-Jae, a yo...
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