Special Programs in Focus

• Korea
• 2019
• 136min

Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East? is remembered as an unprecedented attempt in Korean cinema history and an achievement of exceptional aesthetics. When Abbas KIAROSTAMI’s Where Is My Friend’s Home won the third prize at the...

Special Programs in Focus

• Korea
• 2019
• 117min

Everyone was surprised because no one expected it. The name ‘HONG Sang-soo’ had never been mentioned anywhere in the Korean film industry before. Until seeing the bizarre title The Day a Pig Fell into the Well, it only delivered s...

Special Programs in Focus

• Korea
• 2019
• 119min

Director LEE Jang-ho is a writer who captures contradictions and absurdities by colliding things that don′t mix. Good Windy Days, a film adaptation of CHOI Il-nam′s novel ‘Our Vines’, depicts the grim reality of the young people b...

Special Programs in Focus

• Korea
• 2019
• 103min

The March of the Fools is a full-length picture showing the youth of the time. Based on CHOI Inho′s novel of the same name, published in a series on Daily Sports, it depicts the frustration and anxiety of young people in the 1970s...

Special Programs in Focus

• Korea
• 2019
• 131min

Director BONG Joon ho himself called the film Memories of Murder "a rural thriller." It could have meant to deal with events that took place in a rural area, not in the city, which is a general background of a thriller. Many thing...

Special Programs in Focus

• Korea
• 2019
• 114min

Seopyeonje is the story about an old pansori singer and his stepchildren wandering around the South Jeolla Province to live by pansori singing or both the bad luck and artistic excitement of their lives. The film made cry countles...

Special Programs in Focus

• Korea
• 2019
• 112min

An Aimless Bullet is based on LEE Beomsun′s novel, which gives a glimpse of the Korean society′s shadow before and after the Korean War. It depicts the pain of displaced people and absurdities of the Korean society at that time at...

Special Programs in Focus

• Korea
• 2019
• 120min

"Who are YOU?" This line of Old Boy has become a catchy buzzword. Actually, many of the chic and ingenious things in Old Boy have become pleasantly popular among the public. Not only did it create a popular trend, but it brought p...

Special Programs in Focus

• Korea
• 2019
• 112min

The Housemaid is one of the strangest and most beautiful films of the vertical mise en scenes compressed into steps in Korean film history. A maid (LEE Eunsim) seduces Dongsik(KIM Jingyu), the master of the house, and gets pregnan...

Special Programs in Focus

• Korea
• 2019
• 74min

Sometimes movies are remembered for their sceneries and atmospheres. A Day Off focuses on the atmosphere of space, especially among Director LEE Man-hee’s filmography, who boasted a wide range of spectra, from popular narrative ge...