Schedule

November 2025

Screening

Frosted Window
흐린 창문 너머의 누군가

6:30pm

BFI Southbank

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Three episodes, each set in a different season in the Seochon neighbourhood of Seoul’s Jongno District. The first two are bright and breezy affairs about the vagaries of love – and the last is a weightier, wintry story about a feeling of loss so complex that it must be uncovered from the involuted layers of... Read more

November 2025

Screening

Hero
영웅

6:15pm

Ciné Lumière

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In 1909, revolutionary Ahn Jung-geun (Chung Sung-hwa) formed the ‘Danji Alliance’ with his comrades and headed for Harbin. One of their members, information broker Seol-hee (Kim Go-eun), infiltrates deep into the enemy camp and identifies the movements of Itō Hirobumi, Prime Minister of Japan and the mastermind behind Japanese annexation of Korea. Finally, gunshots ring... Read more

November 2025

Screening

The Meryl Streep Project
메릴 스트립 프로젝트

6:30pm

ICA

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Creator Park Hyo-sun is both a long-time fan of American actress Meryl Streep as well as a young female film director in the Korean movie industry. As the title might suggest, this documentary–which was eight years in the making–chronicles a fan’s longing to meet the actress she looks up to but is also a collection... Read more

November 2025

Screening

Hi-Five
하이파이브

6:20pm

Ciné Lumière

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The superhero saga gets a distinctly Korean twist in the high-octane, high-spirited romp Hi-Five, the latest from Swing Kids director Kang Hyoung-chul. When a mysterious organ donor dies, the recipients of their vital organs, all unknown to each other, begin to develop strange new powers. Five of them band together as an unlikely superhero crew,... Read more

November 2025

Screening

The Good, the Bad, the Weird
좋은 놈, 나쁜 놈, 이상한 놈

8:45pm

ICA

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The Manchurian fields of the 1930s. Bounty hunter Park Do-won (Jung Woo-sung), brutal villain Park Chang-yi (Lee Byung-hun), and quirky but persistent thief Yoon Tae-goo (Song Kang-ho) are in hot pursuit of an ancient treasure whose secrets lie in a hidden map. The finale is a huge shootout in the desert between the Japanese military,... Read more

November 2025

Film

Time to Be Strong
힘을 낼 시간

4:30pm

ICA

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“Finding our way is difficult,“ says Su-min (Choi Sung-eun) in voice-over, as she emerges from Jeju Island’s airport with Tae-hee (Hyun Woo-seok) and Sa-rang (Ha Seo-yoon). They certainly look lost, out of place, even shell-shocked – like ex-cons or extra-terrestrials – and soon, Sa-rang will leave her baggage on the airport bus. At 26 they... Read more

November 2025

Screening

The Land of Morning Calm
아침바다 갈매기는

6:30pm

ICA

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In a neglected coastal village, bullying, cantankerous Vietnam vet Yeong-guk (Yoon Joo-sang) drowns his sorrows every night, and goes out early each morning in a fishing boat that, like him, has seen better days. With his straight talk and bellowing voice, he is perhaps the worst man to keep a secret, but he has one.... Read more

November 2025

Screening

Silver Apricot
은빛살구

1:30pm

ICA

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When she is not doing graphic design for her Seoul day job, 32-year-old Kim Jung-seo (Na Ae-jin) writes a vampire-based webtoon – and blood is on her mind. For she is returning to her seaside hometown of Donghae City to secure money owed by her estranged father the caddish restaurateur Yeong-joo (Ahn Seok-hwan), so that... Read more

November 2025

Screening

The Informant
정보원

3:00pm

BFI Southbank

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Kim Seok’s action comedy knowingly — and relentlessly — subverts the established tropes of ‘cops and robbers’ movies, and keeps wrongfooting expectations, faking the viewer out in much the same way that its characters constantly dissemble. As deceit, disguise and double-dealing reign, this is a broad, bombastic entertainment, never predictable but always funny. Anton Bitel Read more

November 2025

Screening

SAVE
생명의 은인

7:00pm

ICA

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After being raised in an orphanage, Se-jeong is facing both her high school graduation as well as her release from the facility. As she works in a salon and tries to prepare for her future, suddenly a woman, Eun-sook, comes looking for her. –Eun-sook, the woman who saved Se-jeong’s life from a fire at the... Read more

November 2025

Film

Red Nails
홍이

6:20pm

BFI Southbank

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Hong is in debt and brings her mother Seo-hee, who suffers from early-stage dementia, home from a care facility. What Hong truly wants isn’t her mother, but access to her bank account. As she tries to work and build a life of her own in her late thirties, Seo-hee’s presence and worsening condition weigh heavily... Read more

November 2025

Screening

3670
3670

8:30pm

BFI Southbank

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Park Joon-ho’s feature debut finds the sweet-spot intersection between two marginalised communities. For its protagonist Cheol-jun (Cho You-hyun) is both a North Korean defector, and gay. As he navigates the codified conventions of his new world(s), he tries simultaneously to come out and to fit in. Take the challenge and the plunge, and with Cheol-jun... Read more

November 2025

Screening

Commission
커미션

6:10pm

BFI Southbank

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Though structured as a serial killer thriller, Shin Jea-min’s film is a psychodrama about an intense rivalry between two sibling webtooners. Their conflict exposes all the tension, jealousy and ambition that often drive art, and dramatises the creative process itself in all its pain and plagiarism, its nerdiness and narcissism, its cutthroat competitiveness and dark... Read more

November 2025

Screening

YMCA Baseball Team
YMCA 야구단

8:45pm

ICA

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Set in the final years of the Empire of Korea, Lee Ho-chang (Song Kang-ho), the son of a scholar, first picks up the modern game of ‘baseball’ on a YMCA field. He then goes on to form Joseon’s first-ever baseball team with the help of Western-educated female coach Min Jung-rim (Kim Hye-soo), Japanese Confucian scholar... Read more

November 2025

Screening

Dongju: The Portrait of a Poet
동주

11:45am

BFI Southbank

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This understated black-and-white film uses creative cross-editing to contrast the youths of poet Yoon Dong-ju (Kang Ha-neul) and his cousin and comrade Song Mong-gyu (Park Jeong-min). The two young men, whose relationship crossed literature and belief, friendship and frustration, were arrested and imprisoned in a Fukuoka prison during the Japanese occupation. Yoon Dong-ju died on... Read more

November 2025

Screening

Somebody
침범

8:45pm

ICA

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This starts off like We Need To Talk About Kevin (2011), as divorced mother Young-eun (Kwak Sun-young) struggles with her kindergarten-age daughter So-hyun (Gi So-you), who is a budding sadistic psychopath desperate for a maternal love that Yeong-eun cannot bring herself to give. Two decades later, as bereft mother Hyeon-gyeong (Shin Dong-mi), who has already... Read more

November 2025

Screening

Break Up the Chain
쇠사슬을 끊어라

3:15pm

BFI Southbank

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Inspired by Sergio Leone’s Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo (1966), this Western by genre master Lee Man-hee blends chaos, betrayal, and gunfights across a lawless frontier. Set in 1930s Manchuria, it follows three adventurers competing for a priceless Buddha statue and the love of a woman. Marking the 50th anniversary of Lee’s passing in 2025, this... Read more

November 2025

Screening

Harbin
하얼빈

6:30pm

BFI Southbank

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Brooding men plot in stark shadows and smoky trains in this historical drama about Korea’s legendary resistance fighter Ahn Jung-geun. In the lead-up to the assassination of Japanese politician Itō Hirobumi in 1909, tension and distrust foment within the splintering Korean resistance army. Austere and captivating, Harbin features unforgettable imagery from Parasite cinematographer Hong Kyeong-pyo... Read more

Schedule

Frosted Window흐린 창문 너머의 누군가

6:30pm

BFI Southbank

Hero영웅

6:15pm

Ciné Lumière

The Meryl Streep Project메릴 스트립 프로젝트

6:30pm

ICA

Hi-Five 하이파이브

6:20pm

Ciné Lumière

The Good, the Bad, the Weird좋은 놈, 나쁜 놈, 이상한 놈

8:45pm

ICA

Time to Be Strong힘을 낼 시간

4:30pm

ICA

The Land of Morning Calm아침바다 갈매기는

6:30pm

ICA

Silver Apricot은빛살구

1:30pm

ICA

The Informant정보원

3:00pm

BFI Southbank

SAVE생명의 은인

7:00pm

ICA

Red Nails홍이

6:20pm

BFI Southbank

36703670

8:30pm

BFI Southbank

Commission커미션

6:10pm

BFI Southbank

YMCA Baseball TeamYMCA 야구단

8:45pm

ICA

Dongju: The Portrait of a Poet동주

11:45am

BFI Southbank

Somebody침범

8:45pm

ICA

Break Up the Chain쇠사슬을 끊어라

3:15pm

BFI Southbank

Harbin하얼빈

6:30pm

BFI Southbank

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Frosted Window
흐린 창문 너머의 누군가

Hero
영웅

The Meryl Streep Project
메릴 스트립 프로젝트

Hi-Five
하이파이브

The Good, the Bad, the Weird
좋은 놈, 나쁜 놈, 이상한 놈

Time to Be Strong
힘을 낼 시간

The Land of Morning Calm
아침바다 갈매기는

Silver Apricot
은빛살구

The Informant
정보원

SAVE
생명의 은인

Red Nails
홍이

3670
3670

Commission
커미션

YMCA Baseball Team
YMCA 야구단

Dongju: The Portrait of a Poet
동주

Somebody
침범

Break Up the Chain
쇠사슬을 끊어라

Harbin
하얼빈