Cinema Now
Bedford Park
베드포드 파크
Thu 05 Nov, 6:10pm
Ciné Lumière
36-year-old Korean-American Audrey Park (Moon Choi) is bound by the expectations of her traditionalist mother and alcoholic father. When an accident brings her into contact with Eli (Son Sukku), an adopted Korean, gruff ex-wrestler, these two lost souls find that in one another’s company they are at last able to breathe. Stephanie Ahn’s feature-length expansion of her short film Accident (2023...
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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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Home A Loan
고인아파트
Fri 06 Nov, 8:30pm
Ciné Lumière
Believing that an abandoned, semi-derelict building in Seoul will soon be redeveloped, Eun-jin (Yoo Seon) purchases a third-floor apartment there for herself, her teen daughter Sung-hye (Lee Seo-yeon) and younger son Sung-ho (Lee Cheon-mu). When Eun-jin starts seeing and hearing things, her paranoia makes her a danger to all around her. Much of the pleasure of Kim Tae-kyeong’s feature resides i...
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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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The Accordion Door
아코디언 도어
Sat 07 Nov, 4:00pm
ICA
At age 9, after a mysterious incident behind an accordion door, the previously slow-witted Ji-soo lost his memory, while acquiring a prodigious talent for writing. Now in middle school, Ji-soo (Moon Woo-jin) is shielded by his essay-writing success from his obvious social shortcomings — until football-loving transfer pupil Hyeon-joo (Lee Jae-in) turns his head and disrupts his confidence.
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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 + Extended Intro by Director Jerome Yoo
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...
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