Korean Cinema Today
BurningBased on Murakami Haruki’s short story Barn Burning, Burning is about the enigmatic relationship between three people. Jongsu meets childhood friend Haemi, who seems to be lively but somewhat hollow, and falls for her. But Haemi a...
New Currents
House of HummingbirdHouse of Hummingbird is about 14-year-old Eunhee. In 1994, when Seongsu Bridge collapsed, Eunhee lives with her parents and older siblings in Daechidong. Her family doesn’t seem to be particularly caring, and Eunhee and her best f...
World Cinema
The Hummingbird ProjectCousins from New York, Vincent and Anton are players in the high-stakes game of High Frequency Trading, where winning is measured in milliseconds. Their dream? To build a fiber-optic cable in a straight line between Kansas and New...
Korean Cinema Today
Sunset in My HometownHak-su goes to Seoul in hopes of becoming a rapper on the TV show Show me the Money, but fails every audition. After bombing his sixth audition, he learns that his father has fallen ill and returns home. He has no lost love for hi...
Korean Cinema Retrospective
Heavenly Homecoming to StarsLee Jang-ho’s debut film, Heavenly Homecoming to Stars (1974) is based on serialized novel of Choi In-ho’s that was first published in newspaper installments. The film opened to 460,000 people, crushing domestic box office records...
A Window on Asian Cinema
The Secret of a LeaderBank teller Kanat lives alone with his mother. He is the head of the household of a broken family, one often portrayed in Central Asian films. The Secret of a Leader tells the tale of how Kanat’s life changes and he enters a new w...
Korean Cinema Today
A Boy and SungreenBo-hee is a sensitive boy. His mother named him Bo-hee for certain reasons, even though he gets teased at school for the girlish name. In contrast to Bo-hee, there is a girl who is likely to survive the collapse of the world. Her ...
A Window on Asian Cinema
BhonsleBhonsle comes from a noble class and stubbornly refuses to engage with other people. He’s a longtime veteran policeman, but lacks sympathy for others. One day, he gets new neighbors: a young woman and boy of the low Bihari class. ...
Wide Angle
Water SprayLife is hard for Hye-min, who already feels exhausted at the age of 30. One day, she goes to a friend who suddenly left this world’s funeral, then goes back home to go to bed. When she wakes up, two women start to nag her.
New Currents
The Red PhallusSangai, a teenage girl living with her father in a village of inland Bhutan, is not happy with her father, who makes wooden phalluses, believed to have mysterious power, and playing a festival clown with a red mask at a local fest...