Special Screenings
Possible Love + Intro
Tue 03 Nov, 5:50pm
BFI Southbank
The latest film from the director of the internationally acclaimed Burning delivers a riveting portrait of class and the disparity between the have and have nots in contemporary Korean society. A laid-off worker and his spouse are the focus of a documentary filmmaker and her husband. Their differences will expose truths about their lives, as director Lee peels away the layers of their daily exi...
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My Daughter Is a Zombie + Q&A with Actor Lee Jung-eun
Wed 04 Nov, 8:30pm
Ciné Lumière
When a zombie virus strikes, wild animal trainer Jung-hwan (Cho Jung-seok) tries to escape the city with his daughter Soo-ah (Choi Yu-ri), but an attack leaves the girl infected. Convinced that she still retains her human heart, he takes Soo-ah to a seaside village where her grandmother Bam-soon (Lee Jung-eun) lives, and begins a life-or-death mission to retrain his daughter using the skills he...
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The World of Love
세계의 주인
Tue 10 Nov, 6:30pm
ICA
The World of Love depicts the story of Joo-in (Seo Su-bin), a seventeen-year-old high school girl who keeps her thoughts and feelings to herself. She receives mysterious notes after refusing to participate in a school-wide petition signed by all of her fellow students. The film title is a clever and poignant word play as ‘Joo-in’ sounds like ‘owner’ in Korean, suggesting both a personal agency ...
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Once We Were Us + Intro by LKFF Film Curator Eunji Lee
Fri 13 Nov, 6:15pm
BFI Southbank
On a flight to South Korea, former lovers Eun-ho (Koo Kyo-hwan) and Jeong-won (Mun Ka-young) meet by chance after a 10-year separation. Through a series of flashbacks to 2008, their relationship unfolds, from their first meeting to turbulent romance, as they confront emotions and memories they believed had long been buried.
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