Schedule

November 2021

Screening

Escape From Mogadishu
모가디슈

7:00pm

Regent Street Cinema

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Mogadishu, 1990. Diplomats in the South Korean embassy are engaged in a charm offensive, trying to win the support of the Somali government for Korea’s bid for UN membership. However the far more experienced North Korean embassy thwarts them at every turn. Suddenly, citizens’ protests against the corrupt Somali government turn violent, and soon a... Read more

November 2021

Screening

Woman of Fire
화녀

6:30pm

ICA

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Presented here is a special restored version of Youn Yuh-jung’s film debut, seen on the big screen for the first time in 50 years. Directed by master-auteur Kim Ki-young, Woman of Fire has lost none of its original power to captivate audiences. Myungja (Youn Yuh-jung) has come to the big city looking for work and,... Read more

November 2021

Screening

Aloners
혼자 사는 사람들

9:00pm

Picturehouse Central

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Yu Jina (Gong Seung-yeon) works alone at a credit card call centre, eats alone, smokes alone, travels home alone and lives alone in her apartment, with her headphones, phone, webcam and television as her only real company. When Su Jin (Jung Da-eun) joins the team, Jina, assigned against her will to train the new recruit,... Read more

November 2021

Screening

Canola
계춘할망

6:45pm

ICA

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Hong Gyechoon (Youn Yuh-jung) is getting on yet still working as a diver along the black rocky coast of Jeju Island. She dotes upon her grand-daughter Hyeji, left behind by an absconding daughter. Then one day as the two of them walk through the town’s central market, little Hyeji (Lee Seul-bi) disappears. We shift to... Read more

November 2021

Screening

The Bacchus Lady
죽여주는 여자

9:00pm

Picturehouse Central

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Seoul’s main east-west avenue Jongno goes past the parklands around the Jongmyo Shrine, one devoted to the country’s past kings. In the park old men gather to chat and play paduk, and some poor old women troll for customers. So-young (Youn Yuh-jung) is one of them. She totes a bag with Marlboros and the energy... Read more

November 2021

Screening

Snowball
최선의 삶

4:30pm

ICA

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In 1993 Daejeon, home of Expo ‘93, eighteen-year-olds Kang-yi (Bang Min-a), Ah-ram (Shim Dal-gi) and So-young (Han Sung-min) are inseparable. Kang-yi, who always looks to her friends’ reactions first; Ah-ram, who’ll pick up anything she finds on the street; and So-young, whose strong exterior hides an anxious core. The girls always talk of escaping to... Read more

November 2021

Screening

The Book of Fish
자산어보

6:00pm

Picturehouse Central

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Exiled to Black Mountain Island for his revolutionary ideas, scholar Chung Yak-jeon (Sul Kyung-gu, a regular from the films of Lee Chang-dong) forms a close, reciprocal bond with local young fisherman Chang-dae (Byun Yo-han), with whom he collaborates on an encyclopaedic, apparently apolitical book about the island’s marine life. The interactions between these two very... Read more

November 2021

Screening

Documentary Youn Yuh-Jung & Ladies of The Forest

7:00pm

KCCUK

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In the wake of Youn Yuh-jung’s Academy Award, national broadcaster KBS put together this stylish tribute. It opens with a series of brief statements from acting and other colleagues present and past. Viewers of the film Canola (2016) may be surprised to see Kim Go-eun, the film’s older Hyeji, looking positively radiant; fans of Minari... Read more

November 2021

Screening

Awoke
복지식당

6:30pm

The Cinema in the Arches

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After a car accident, Jaegi (Jo Min-sang) finds himself paralyzed and unable to walk. Given his difficult economic circumstances, he needs to find a job – but this will only be possible with government support, which requires a physical evaluation. After his exam he is shocked to receive a grade 5 rating, usually given to... Read more

November 2021

Screening

Spring Song
스프링 송

6:00pm

Everyman Screen on the Green

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Following Things That I Learn From You (2016) and It’s Not Over Yet (2018), this is the third in a loose trilogy of films that trace the meandering journey and sometimes fraying friendship of musical duet J and Joy 20. Middle-aged singer Yu Jun-sang (writer/director Yu Jun-sang) and much younger guitarist Lee Jun-hwa head to... Read more

November 2021

Screening

Sewing Sisters
미싱타는 여자들: 전태일의 누이들

6:20pm

Bertha DocHouse

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In the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s, many young women flocked from the countryside to Seoul seeking work in the burgeoning garment industry and at the sewing factories of Pyeonghwa Market. They worked and lived in squalor and were brutally exploited; many suffered from starvation and were unable to access education. They became politicised... Read more

November 2021

Screening

After Me-too
애프터 미투

6:30pm

ICA

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Three years since Korean society was first rocked by the MeToo movement, how much has changed? As the title suggests, #AfterMeToo tackles the activism and resistance that remained after the initial Me Too fever cooled. This anthology documentary ties together four shorts, dealing with the ‘School Me Too’ movement amongst teenagers, the fallout of the... Read more

November 2021

Screening

Mise-en-scène 1 미쟝센 단편영화제 1

6:00pm

KCCUK

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The Mise-en-scène Short Film Festival was born in 2002 to present, under the motto ‘Beyond the barrier of genres’, short films that brazenly bend the boundaries of genre through imagination. As the slogan ‘I LOVE SHORT!’ suggests, our boundless affection for short film has continued across the past twenty years. It’s true that in the... Read more

November 2021

Screening

Mise-en-scène 2 미쟝센 단편영화제 2

8:00pm

KCCUK

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The Mise-en-scène Short Film Festival was born in 2002 to present, under the motto ‘Beyond the barrier of genres’, short films that brazenly bend the boundaries of genre through imagination. As the slogan ‘I LOVE SHORT!’ suggests, our boundless affection for short film has continued across the past twenty years. It’s true that in the... Read more

November 2021

Screening

Collectors
도굴

2:00pm

Everyman Screen on the Green

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A gentleman thief (Lee Je-hoon). A superrich collector (Song Young-chang). A museum curator (Shin Haesun). An unethical archaeologist (Jo Woo Jin). A professional excavator (Lim Won-hee). These five grave-robbers improbably team together to steal an ancient artefact, ‘the Excalibur of Joseon’, from Seolleung right in the middle of Gangnam, Seoul. The royal sword of Yi... Read more

November 2021

Screening

In Front of Your Face
당신얼굴 앞에서

6:00pm

Picturehouse Central

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After impetuously running off with a lover to the United States many years ago, former actress Sangok (Lee Hyeyeong, herself recently something of an absentee from the big screen) has suddenly returned to Seoul. She is staying with her sister Jeongok (Cho Yunhee), doing mindfulness exercises, and hoping to meet up with director Jaewon (Kwon... Read more

November 2021

Screening

Shades of the Heart
아무도 없는 곳

2:15pm

Everyman Screen on the Green

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Separated from his wife in England, author Chang-seok (Yeon Woo-jin) is back in Seoul, working on his next novel, and trying to work (and walk) through his complicated feelings about what he has left behind. He also has encounters (some by arrangement, others by chance) with four people whose names become the formal headings for... Read more

November 2021

Screening

Josée
조제

5:00pm

Ciné Lumière

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Kim Jong-kwan’s film traces an evolving relationship between young student Young-seok (Nam Joo-Hyuk) and the mysterious Josée (Han Ji-Min), whose meet-cute involves him helping her after she has fallen from her wheelchair. French in origin, ‘Josée’ may well not be the real name of this bookish shut-in, as much as the stories which she tells... Read more

November 2021

Screening

Made on the Rooftop
메이드 인 루프탑

6:00pm

Picturehouse Central

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Haneul (Lee Hong-nae) has a penchant for stoking drama in his relationship, but one day he takes things too far, and his boyfriend tells him to move out. At a loss, he temporarily moves in with his friend Bongsik (Jung Whee), who has made a name for himself as a live streamer. Bongsik in turn... Read more

November 2021

Screening

Limecrime
라임 크라임

6:55pm

Genesis Cinema

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Secondary school classmates Songju (Lee Minwoo) and Jooyeon(Jang Yoosang) seemingly have nothing in common. Songju is a poor student who is likely to follow in his father’s footsteps and become a car mechanic. Jooyeon is from a wealthy family and excels at school. They have no mutual friends. But both of them share a talent... Read more

November 2021

Screening

Rolling
말아

6:00pm

Everyman Screen on the Green

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Juri (Shim Dal-gi), 25, is shaken out of her homebound lethargy when her mother asks her to fill in at her kimbap (seaweed rice rolls) shop. Juri has never learned how to make kimbap, but she reluctantly takes over while her mother stays with Juri’s ailing grandmother. There is little glamour or excitement in the... Read more

November 2021

Screening

Sister J
재춘언니

6:30pm

Bertha DocHouse

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Sister J reflects on the experiences of workers who have been marginalised, fired from their factory jobs. Lee Soojung’s documentary centres on Lim Jaechun or “Sister J”, as the director fondly calls this middle-aged worker. The film compassionately documents Lim Jaechun’s attempts to rebuild his life after being made redundant from his job of over... Read more

November 2021

Screening

A Good Lawyer’s Wife
바람난 가족

8:30pm

Ciné Lumière

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Ho-jeong (Moon So-ri) gave up a career in dance to be a good wife to lawyer husband Yeong-jak (Hwang Jung-min) and good mother to their adopted son. She does part-time teaching at a nearby dance studio but otherwise her life seems on hold, and sex with her handsome husband leaves her needing to finish things... Read more

November 2021

Screening

The Housemaid
하녀

6:10pm

Genesis Cinema

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Byeong-sik (Youn Yuh-jung) is the calm, controlled centre within a family of self-indulgent chaebol billionaires. Formerly a nanny, she maintains her role as veteran housemaid and cook with stealthy politeness. She hires in extra help in the form of young, pretty Eun-yi (Jeon Do-youn); she will double as nanny to little girl Nami. While the... Read more

November 2021

Screening

Recalled
내일의 기억

6:40pm

Genesis Cinema

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After a fall, Soo-jin (Seo Yea-ji) wakes up in hospital with a serious head injury that has left her with no memory of who she is or how she came to be there. As she goes back home with her solicitous husband Ji-hoon (Kim Kang-woo) – whom she also does not remember – to their... Read more

November 2021

Screening

Climbing
클라이밍

9:00pm

Genesis Cinema

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After recovering from a car accident professional climber CHOI Se-hyeon discovers that she is pregnant just before the World Championships. With her long-term aspirations threatened, she struggles to break free from the duties of motherhood. At the same time, she receives mysterious text messages from ‘herself’ who seems to have been through a quite different... Read more

November 2021

Screening

Heaven: To the Land of Happiness
행복의 나라로

7:00pm

Picturehouse Central

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Heaven: To the Land of Happiness is a festive and pastoral road movie in which two men – “Inmate 203” (Choi Min-sik), who escaped from jail, and “Nam-sik” (Park Hae-il), who coincidentally joins 203’s trip – get their hands on a large amount of money by chance and embark on a journey together, dreaming of... Read more

Schedule

Escape From Mogadishu모가디슈

7:00pm

Regent Street Cinema

Woman of Fire화녀

6:30pm

ICA

Aloners혼자 사는 사람들

9:00pm

Picturehouse Central

Canola계춘할망

6:45pm

ICA

The Bacchus Lady죽여주는 여자

9:00pm

Picturehouse Central

Snowball최선의 삶

4:30pm

ICA

The Book of Fish자산어보

6:00pm

Picturehouse Central

Documentary Youn Yuh-Jung & Ladies of The Forest

7:00pm

KCCUK

Awoke복지식당

6:30pm

The Cinema in the Arches

Spring Song스프링 송

6:00pm

Everyman Screen on the Green

Sewing Sisters미싱타는 여자들: 전태일의 누이들

6:20pm

Bertha DocHouse

After Me-too애프터 미투

6:30pm

ICA

Mise-en-scène 1 미쟝센 단편영화제 1

6:00pm

KCCUK

Mise-en-scène 2 미쟝센 단편영화제 2

8:00pm

KCCUK

Collectors도굴

2:00pm

Everyman Screen on the Green

In Front of Your Face당신얼굴 앞에서

6:00pm

Picturehouse Central

Shades of the Heart아무도 없는 곳

2:15pm

Everyman Screen on the Green

Josée조제

5:00pm

Ciné Lumière

Made on the Rooftop메이드 인 루프탑

6:00pm

Picturehouse Central

Limecrime라임 크라임

6:55pm

Genesis Cinema

Rolling말아

6:00pm

Everyman Screen on the Green

Sister J재춘언니

6:30pm

Bertha DocHouse

A Good Lawyer’s Wife바람난 가족

8:30pm

Ciné Lumière

The Housemaid하녀

6:10pm

Genesis Cinema

Recalled내일의 기억

6:40pm

Genesis Cinema

After a fall, Soo-jin (Seo Yea-ji) wakes up in hospital with a serious head injury that has left her with no memory of who she is or how she came to be there. As she goes back home with her solicitous husband Ji-hoon (Kim Kang-woo) – whom she also does not remember – to their... Read more

Climbing클라이밍

9:00pm

Genesis Cinema

Escape From Mogadishu
모가디슈

Woman of Fire
화녀

Aloners
혼자 사는 사람들

Canola
계춘할망

The Bacchus Lady
죽여주는 여자

Snowball
최선의 삶

The Book of Fish
자산어보

Awoke
복지식당

Spring Song
스프링 송

Sewing Sisters
미싱타는 여자들: 전태일의 누이들

After Me-too
애프터 미투

Collectors
도굴

In Front of Your Face
당신얼굴 앞에서

Shades of the Heart
아무도 없는 곳

Josée
조제

Made on the Rooftop
메이드 인 루프탑

Limecrime
라임 크라임

Rolling
말아

Sister J
재춘언니

A Good Lawyer’s Wife
바람난 가족

The Housemaid
하녀

Recalled
내일의 기억

Climbing
클라이밍

Heaven: To the Land of Happiness
행복의 나라로