Korean Cinema Today
Kike Will Hit a Home RunYoung-tae and Mi-joo are happy to move into a small but cozy monthly rental house. However, Young-tae’s business partner suddenly breaks the agreement to run a restaurant together. Young-Tae leaves home to earn money, leaving Mi-j...
World Cinema
Kill the JockeyThe Angel (2018) director Luis Ortega returns with another weirdly funny, cool, and sexy thriller where we follow a star jockey, his girlfriend and partner in crime, and a mobster on his tail. Remo’s talents cannot save him from h...
World Cinema
KneecapIt is said that there are more people learning Irish on the language learning app Duolingo than native Irish speakers. Some of these endangered Irish speakers reside in British-governed Northern Ireland. Kneecap depicts the story ...
Wide Angle
K-NumberMioka Miller, with K-Number 723915, has visited Korea multiple times since 2008 in search of her family, but each attempt has ended in failure. She was found on the streets in 1974 and later adopted by an American family. But she ...
A Window on Asian Cinema
Land of Broken HeartsKai, a 27-year-old who recently got a job at an advertising company, dyes his hair blue and sets out to start anew. But following him, as they have since the day he was born, are aliens carrying cameras and lights. Just as they be...
Special Program in Focus
Land of HappinessWhen talking about the October 26 Incident of 1979, how many people remember Park Heung-ju, the secretary to the Director of the KCIA at the time? Land of Happiness brings to the forefront this man who was at the center of the inc...
Wide Angle
Landscape DriftingLandscape Drifting is a work by directors Hwang Da-eun and Park Hong-yeol, who vividly captured the struggles of the Seongmisan village community in The Teachers: Pink, Nature Trail, Ridge Between Rice Paddies, Plum (2023). This f...
Wide Angle
Lao SanLao San is about a boy named Erguang in a rural village, whose father is absent and mother plans to go to the city for work. He has to move to his aunt’s home while he is only obsessed with finding his friend. (PARK Sungho)
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Limonov: The Ballad of EddieKirill Serebrennikov, director of Leto (2018) and Petrov’s Flu (2021), adapts Emmanuel Carrere’s biographical novel to portray Eduard Limonov, the Russian writer born in 1943 who caused a stir in Russian literature and politics. T...
Wide Angle
Lost TargetMinjae, an archer nearing retirement, bets all the money she earned from match-fixing on her own loss. For her, this is the final match after an eight-year downward spiral following her last victory. The film is a gripping sports ...