Korea Season: Disability in Korean Cinema
All around the world, the spectrum of film themes and film forms that portray impairments continues to expand. At this year’s Korea Season, we will introduce four films that address the theme of disability. These two fiction films and two documentaries are works that each ask, in their own way, for the audience to engage with the idea of disability more deeply.
Innocent Witness
증인
Sun 05 Nov, 6:00pm
BFI Southbank
After spending much of his career as a penniless human rights solicitor, Soon-ho (Jung Woo-sung) finds himself being granted the opportunity to join a large law firm and drastically change his circumstances. At his new firm, he receives his first case and first client: a housekeeper accused of killing her wealthy, elderly employer. The only witness to the murder is Ji-woo (Kim Hyang-gi), an aut...
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Nocturne
녹턴
Thu 09 Nov, 6:30pm
ICA
Nocturne is a sweeping documentary film by director Jeong Gwanjo that, over the course of 11 years, chronicles the relationships between Eun Seongho, a talented autistic pianist, his mother Minseo, and his younger brother Geongi. The main tension depicted in the film is between Minseo, who supports her son Seongho’s musical talent and uses it as a balm for her exhausted heart, and Geongi,...
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Corydoras
코리도라스
Sun 12 Nov, 3:45pm
Rio Cinema
Corydoras is a documentary film that follows Park Dong-soo, a 40-year-old man with cerebral palsy who left his facility ten years ago and has since been living independently. Dong-soo feels that his spirit is trapped by the limits of his body, and compares himself to corydoras, a species of fish known for cleaning algae from the bottom of fish tanks. Just like a fish trapped in a tank, Dong-soo...
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My Lovely Angel + Q&A
Tue 21 Nov, 6:20pm
ICA
Jae-sik (Jin Goo) is the owner of an event management company who poured his life’s savings into his work, only to be left drowning in debt. Following the sudden death of his employee, Ji-young, Jae-sik finds himself the guardian of Ji-young’s 7-year-old daughter Eun-hye (Jung Seo-yeon), who is Deaf-Blind and has had no contact with anyone other than her mother. At first Jae-sik pre...
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