London Korean Film Festival Opens From Nov. 1! Movie Victory Opens With Opening Films
Oct 29, 2024
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The Korean Cultural Center in the United Kingdom (Director Sun Seung-hye/hereinafter referred to as the Cultural Center) announced on the 29th that it has selected 'Victory' as the opening film of the Korean Film Festival in London. It will be performed at the BFI Southbank Theater in London on January 1.
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In addition to this year's London Korean Film Festival, a special exhibition (Echo of Time: Golden Age of Korean Film and New Cinema) will be held in cooperation with the British Film Association (BFI), the largest film agency in the UK, the Korean Cultural Center in the UK, and the Korean Film Archive. It runs from October 28 to December 31. Starting with the screening of 「Female Judge" (1962)」 on Oct. 28, it will feature 13 films, including director Yoo Hyun-mok's neo-realist masterpiece 『Ovaltan" from the golden age of the 1960s, 17 films, including director Jung Jae-eun's youth film 『Please Take Care of Cats』, and 31 films, including one animation, and 11 female directors, more than 70 screenings.
Additional December programs include the golden age works of the 1960s 'Maboo'(1961), 'Sarangbang Guest and Mother'(1961),'Goryeojang'(1963),'Maboo Staircase'(1964),'Maboo'(1965),'Gat Village'(1965), and the new wave of Korean movies, New Korean Cinema(1996-2003),'The Day the Pig Fell Into the Well'(1996),'Christmas in August'(1998),'Quiet Family'(1998),'Got's Second, It will be screened at the BFI Southbank Theater in London, England, with 'Old Boy'(2003) and 'Scandal: Joseon Men and Women's Commercial Branch'(2003).
Sun Seung-hye, Director of the Korean Cultural Center in the UK, said "In cooperation with the British Film Association, we will launch a large-scale exhibition in London to view Korean films on a large scale. At the same time, the London Korean Film Festival opens a new future film with a Victory selected as the opening film. Please experience the history of Korean aesthetics while watching Korean movies with the compressed growth of Korea in the 20th century in London. The aesthetic achievements of each film have never been large or small victories. The Korean film created a new aesthetic with the outspoken passion of people with the singularity of creative talent."
Along with the movie screening, various side events are also scheduled. Steve Choi, a professor at San Francisco State University, plans to attend and take a time to examine how Korean films have undergone drastic changes in the wake of changes in the Korean economy and politics in the 1960s and 1990s. Choi Jin-hee, a professor at King's College London, will have a talk on how to portray a girl in Korean movies, and in some cases, experts will attend the screening to introduce the film.
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