Cinema Now - London Korean Film Festival

Cinema Now

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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 dreams and tou...

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The Gorals
산양들

Sat 07 Nov, 12:20pm

BFI Southbank

Four high-school ‘weird kids’ build a sanctuary for animals and themselves in the woods. Yoo Jae-wook’s punkish coming-of-ager is a joyous celebration of female misfits. Turning its sylvan rites of passage into social allegory, it explores the pressures these young women face, while championing their rebellion and solidarity. This is funny, charming and infectious.

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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 overlooke...

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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 diaspora experi...