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Little Crusader
  • Václav KADRNKA
  • Czech Republic,SlovakRepublic,Italy
  • 2017
  • 90min

One summer day, little Jan, the only descendant of the knight Bo?ek, puts on his child’s armour and runs away from home in search of the Holy Land. Having no idea where he is going...

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Korean Cinema Retrospective

The Barefooted Young
  • KIM Kee-duk
  • Korea
  • 2017
  • 116min

The biggest box-office hit of the era with some 250,000 viewers in Seoul, and the film that made Shin Seong-il famous. Gangster Dusu and diplomat’s daughter Joanna fall in love aft...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

Early Rain
  • CHUNG Jin Woo
  • Korea
  • 2017
  • 100min

Where The Barefooted Young is a love between a poor man and a rich girl, Early Rain is a melodrama about two poor souls lying and falling in love. A car mechanic and ...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

Mist
  • KIM Soo-yong
  • Korea
  • 2017
  • 79min

Based on Kim Seungok’s short story “Record of a Journey to Mujin”, the film is well noted as having been influenced by literary modernism. Married to the daughter of a pharmaceutic...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

The General′s Mustache
  • LEE Seong-gu
  • Korea
  • 2017
  • 103min

The film is directed by Lee Seong-gu (The Sun and the Moon, When the Buckwheat Flowers Blossom), with Kim Seungok’s screenplay adapted from a novel by Lee O Young. It...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

Eunuch
  • SHIN Sang-ok
  • Korea
  • 2017
  • 90min

Though Shin Seong-il began his career as an actor for Shin Films (Romantic Papa ), he was not able to work with director Shin Sang-ok often because there were too many senio...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

A Day Off
  • LEE Man-hee
  • Korea
  • 2017
  • 73min

The film never made opening night and was forgotten until rediscovered as one of director Lee Manhee’s best films. It’s the story about a poor, young couple’s Sunday. Shin Seong-il...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

Heavenly Homecoming to Stars
  • LEE Jangho
  • Korea
  • 2017
  • 110min

Director Lee Jangho’s feature debut, which drew 460,000 viewers to theaters when it opened in 1974. The film introduced youth culture of the times?acoustic guitar, jeans, and draft...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

Gilsotteum
  • IM Kwon-taek
  • Korea
  • 2017
  • 105min

Along with Jagko, Gilsotteum is Im Kwon-taek’s another film depicting the tragedy of separation between South and North Korea, which also solidified middle-aged Shin ...

World Premiere

Korean Cinema Today

Black Summer
  • LEE Weonyoung
  • 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...

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