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Korean Cinema Today

The Day After
  • HONG Sangsoo
  • 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 t...

  • 칸영화제 경쟁부문

Korean Cinema Today

A Taxi Driver
  • JANG Hoon
  • Korea
  • 2017
  • 137min

In May, 1980, the Gwangju Democratization Movement was brutally suppressed with innumerable citizen casualties. The massacre in Gwangju was thoroughly concealed, and on-the-scene r...

Korean Cinema Today

The Battleship Island: Director’s Cut
  • RYOO Seungwan
  • 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. D...

World Premiere

Korean Cinema Today

Mermaid Unlimited
  • O Muel
  • Korea
  • 2017
  • 110min

Youngju, a professional swimmer with a serious alcohol problem, is fired from her job at the aquarium. Learning that a synchronized swimming coach is needed for a special program o...

  • 2014 ACF 인큐베이팅펀드
World Premiere

Korean Cinema Today

America Town
  • JEON Sooil
  • Korea
  • 2017
  • 93min

Set in the 1980s in Gunsan around a US military camptown, 15 years old Sangguk is the son of a photo studio owner. As prostitution prevails in the town, Sangguk is curious about th...

World Premiere

Korean Cinema Today

The Emperor
  • MIN Byunghun,LEE Sanghun
  • Korea
  • 2017
  • 88min

Early one morning in Gangnam, three grim-faced individuals get into a black van. They will face their final moments in life in a secluded countryside motel. In the hushed silence o...

  • APM 2016 프로젝트
World Premiere

Korean Cinema Today

Notebook from My Mother
  • KIM Sungho
  • Korea
  • 2017
  • 103min

Aeran, a hardworking mother who runs a side-dish store in the neighborhood, and her son, Gyuhyon, a part-time instructor, whom she considers incompetent, do not get on well. The so...

World Premiere

Korean Cinema Today

Taklamakan
  • KO Eunki
  • Korea
  • 2017
  • 106min

Taesik makes a living collecting recyclable wastes or stealing waste metals from empty houses in the redevelopment zone. When his friend takes him to a karaoke club, Taesik meets S...

World Premiere

Korean Cinema Today

Romans 8:37
  • SHIN Yeonshick
  • 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 prede...

World Premiere

Korean Cinema Today

Method
  • PANG Eunjin
  • 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 o...

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