The cinema of Kwon Hayoun is haunted by absence, standing as a ghostly echo of what’s long gone or never was. Though her short films use real-life stories and experiences as their subjects, these elegiac […]
Korean films
The titular relationship of The Poet and the Boy is defined by a one-sided and stifled passion that might still serve as a preferable alternative to no passion at all. In the directorial debut of Kim Yang-hee, Yang […]
Park Kiyong (b. 1961) is a singular figure in Korean film culture: a KAFA graduate who went on to combine a filmmaking career with a key role in film teaching at KAFA itself and at […]
Director: Lee Kwang-kuk London Korean Film Festival teaser screening review A quiet sense of defeat runs through every long, despondent stare and impeded attempt at communication in Lee Kwang-kuk’s latest effort. Though the escaped zoo […]
In the reverent Jung Il-woo, My Friend, Korean director Kim Dong-won presents the political tumult and struggles of the urban and peasant communities through the prism of one dedicated activist, charity worker and Jesuit priest. […]
Song Yun-hyeok’s A Slice Room documents the lives of Korean men and women who have fallen through the cracks of the nation’s welfare system. Focusing on a few tenants of the ‘jjokbangchon’ (‘villages of slice’) residential […]
