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...
Korean Cinema Today
HerstoryJungsook is the owner of a travel agency and a workaholic who hates to lose. When her business is suspended because of one of her employees, Jungsook halfheartedly opens a call center for comfort women at the suggestion of the Bus...
World Cinema
High LifeOn an isolated spaceship, everything is artificial and controlled of human desires. A doctor’s past wounds force her to obsess over children, successfully artificially inseminating passengers who are prisoners abandoned on earth. ...
New Currents
His Lost NameMiddle-aged widower Tetsuro finds an unconscious young man on a river bank. When the man wakes up he says his name is ‘Shinichi’, but nothing more. It is apparent that Shinichi tried to commit suicide, so Tetsuro provides him shel...
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...
New Currents
House of My FathersThe Sri Lankan civil war triggered by the massacre of Tamils has engraved a devastating memory of bloody conflict between the Sri Lankan military and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. During the civil war, two villages?one Tam...
World Cinema
I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as BarbariansIn this satire about the Holocaust in Romania, an actress tells the camera that she will play the role of performance director Mariana Marine, and the movie follows her routine. Preparing for a performance by day and enjoying her ...
Korean Cinema Today
Illang: The Wolf BrigadeBased on Oshii Mamoru’s animated film of the same name, Illang is a live action film adapted for Korea. In 2024, an anti-reunification terrorist group emerges when Korea becomes impoverished because of pressures from world powers ...
World Cinema
In My RoomTV cameraman Armin is getting older, but his work and love are not improving. One morning, without warning, all the people in the world disappear, and the lone Armin is compelled to go to his hometown. Like a modern Robinson Cruso...
Wide Angle
In the Middle of BlueYe Hong was abandoned by her husband because she couldn’t bear children, but somehow becomes a surrogate for another infertile couple. Ironically, she becomes pregnant with twins. The couple decides to keep only one of the twins, ...