London Korean Film Festival 2023
The London Korean Film Festival (LKFF) returns to cinema screens for its 18th edition, running from 2 – 16 November 2023. With the biggest programme dedicated to Korean cinema outside of the country itself, we present 40 films comprising the followings strands: Cinema Now, Special Focus : 40th Anniversary of KAFA, Women’s Voices, Special Screenings and Korea Season.
Cinema Now
The purpose of the Cinema Now strand is to offer a synchronic cross section of contemporary, popular Korean cinema and take the temperature of the moment.
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Special Focus: 40th Anniversary of KAFA
The Special Focus Strand will commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the Korean Film Academy of Film Arts (KAFA). Created by the Korean Film Council (KOFIC) in 1984. KAFA is Korea’s top educational film institution having produced over 700 prominent film-industry talents, including directors such as Bong Joon-ho (Parasite), Hur Jin-ho (Christmas in August, A Normal Family), Choi Dong-hoon (Alienoi...
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Women’s Voices
“Women’s Voices” is the annual celebration of complex, dynamic women-driven stories and supports women working in the Korean film industry.
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Korea Season: Indie Talent
Korean independent filmmakers continue to turn out an impressive number of new features every year, despite a lingering downturn at Korea’s box office and cuts to public funding. With surprising regularity, large numbers of talented new directors emerge and make names for themselves each year. The Indie Talent strand is devoted to highlighting such new voices, as well as the works of establishe...
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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.
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LKFF 2023 Special Screenings: Riceboy Sleeps
Mon 13 Nov, 6:30pm
Rio Cinema
Set in the suburbs of Canada in the 1990s, So-young (Choi Seung-yoon) is a single mother to Dong-hyun (Dohyun Noel Hwang), her teenage son. So-young is determined to give him a new and better life than the one she left behind in her Korea, all the while striving to overcome the racial and cultural challenges they now face overseas. When sudden news triggers an unexpected return to Korea for the...
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LKFF 2023 Closing Gala: Dr. Cheon and the Lost Talisman + Q&A
Thu 16 Nov, 6:00pm
BFI Southbank
Dr. Cheon (Gang Dong-won), a fake exorcist who doesn’t believe in the existence of ghosts, is the heir to a shamanic family legacy and currently runs an online exorcism channel called “Heavenly Cheon TV”. With innate eloquence and an extraordinary insight into people, Dr. Cheon has solved various incidents. Initially reluctant, he accepts Yoo-kyung’s (Esom) case and heads to her home. How...
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LKFF 2023 Opening Night: A Normal Family + Q&A
Thu 02 Nov, 6:00pm
BFI Southbank
Jae-wan (Sul Kyung-gu), a successful lawyer, takes on the case of a rich executive’s son, who has purposely run over and killed a man and left his daughter seriously injured. Meanwhile, Jae-wan’s younger brother Jae-gyu (Jang Dong-gun) works to keep her alive. We then see a contrast between these two siblings, one affluent and unscrupulous, the other struggling and moralistic. When...
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