Special Programs in Focus
Tears of the Black TigerRumpoey, daughter of the town’s richest and most powerful man, and Dum, a son of a poor farmer, reunite in the city years after having been apart as children. They are madly in lov...
Special Programs in Focus
The Good, The Bad, The WeirdThis is director Kim Jee-woon’s western film, which is the 21st century adaptation of the Manchuria western films featured in Korea’s film history during the 1960s. Since the begin...
Special Programs in Focus
Let the Bullets FlyChow Yun-Fat stars as a villain who rules the world of conspiracy and treachery. Set in China during 1920s, a notorious badit chief Zhang enters a remote town posing as its new may...
Gala Presentation
A Reason to LiveDirector Lee Jung-hyang returns nine years after The Way Home. Comparison with her previous films reveals a perspective on cinema and the world that has deepened and broadened. [A ...
Korean Cinema Today
Glove[Glove] is a relatively under-rated film of the year along with [Hanji]. It can be said Kang Wooseok’s version of [Take Off] and baseball version of [Shilmido]. Although its box of...
Korean Cinema Today
HanjiThis is a fictional drama and documentary about people who are trying to restore Jeonju Sago on Hanji paper, the only remaining annals of the Joseon Dynasty that were burned during...
Korean Cinema Today
HindsightAn ex-mafia legend wishes to leave his organization to open a restaurant and lead an ordinary life. A woman approaches him at a cooking school in order to keep a watch on him as or...
Wide Angle
No Land for the PeopleFailed North Korean spy Lee Dong-gyu remains in the South, as a defector working at an auto repair. Then one day, he’s kidnapped. The story examines the collision between espionage...
Wide Angle
AnesthesiaRookie nurse Jihyeon witnesses the sexual assault of an aestheticized patient by the director of the clinic she works at. Her story divides the nursing staff, and even after hidden...
Wide Angle
Anywhere in Seoul, 2010Poorly educated, mid-50s ex-convict Kim Chunbae has a hard time getting a job. He’s willing to do anything for his disabled son Minjun, but it’s a tough world for guys like him. Th...