Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2017
• 110min

Jihyeon works at the university as a part-timer, writing and making films. He is not ambitious and is thankful to have work that he enjoys. He finds joy in recording trivial things in life and the scenery he passes by every day. O...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2017
• 151min

There’s an island called “Battleship Island”, where many Koreans were forcibly drafted into serving the Japanese imperial army and mining coal, where they were treated miserably. Director Ryoo Seungwan cinematized the island’s tra...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2017
• 92min

It’s Areum’s first day at work at the publishing company where Bongwan, a literary critic, is the boss. His wife, thinking Bongwan is fooling around with a new girl, shows up and thinks Areum must be the one. That’s how Areum gets...

• Cannes Film Festival (In Competition)

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2017
• 119min

Hyojin teaches children in a study room business that she runs with a friend in the suburbs. One day, she is asked to take care of Jonguk, the son of her dead husband and his ex-wife. It is not an easy burden to bear, but she fina...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2017
• 133min

Rev. Kang Yoseop is a so-called “star minister” with progressive inclinations, presenting strong spiritual visions to youths. He is fighting fiercely against his conservative predecessor, who’s been giving the domain of the church...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2017
• 82min

Actor Jaeha and idol star Youngwoo are cast in Unchain, a stage drama about the love, hate, pain and deception between two men. Jaeha eagerly practices and doesn’t approve of Youngwoo’s insincere attitude. With repeated practice, ...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2017
• 100min

Jiseon, a divorcee, works for a public relations company and raises her daughter. Hanmae, a nanny from China looks after the little girl. One day, coming home from work, Jiseon finds that her daughter and Hanmae have simply disapp...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2017
• 129min

Park Yeol, a Korean anarchist in Tokyo formed a secret organization, in 1923. Kaneko Fumiko, though Japanese, became his sweetheart and stood with him against Japan. In the confused aftermath of the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake, ov...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2017
• 110min

Eighteen-year-old high school student Park Hwa-young lives alone, without family. She offers her home as a hangout to her friends, who begin to call her “mom.” But even though they are always at her house, Hwa-young is not quite p...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2017
• 85min

After meeting Jinhyeok once while having drinks, Gayeong visits him under the pretense of doing data research for her scenario. While asking him perfunctory questions, she discovers that he has a girlfriend, but Gayeong pays no mi...