Schedule
9
November 2025
Screening
Silver Apricot
은빛살구
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
9
November 2025
Screening
The Informant
정보원
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
9
November 2025
Screening
SAVE
생명의 은인
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
11
November 2025
Film
Red Nails
홍이
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
12
November 2025
Screening
3670
3670
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
13
November 2025
Screening
Commission
커미션
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
14
November 2025
Screening
YMCA Baseball Team
YMCA 야구단
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
15
November 2025
Screening
Dongju: The Portrait of a Poet
동주
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
15
November 2025
Screening
Somebody
침범
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
16
November 2025
Screening
Break Up the Chain
쇠사슬을 끊어라
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
18
November 2025
Screening
Harbin
하얼빈