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Event news: Short films by UK based Korean directors

All sorts of good things seem to happen at the Deptford Cinema. Don’t forget the screening of the Sewol documentary on Tuesday and The Journals of Musan on Wednesday, but tomorrow night, there’s this:

Short films by UK based Korean directors

Deptford Cinema | 39 Deptford Broadway | London SE8 4PQ | deptfordcinema.org
Monday, April 24, 2017, 7:00pm – 8:30pm
Free event, part of the Deptford and New Cross Free Film Festival. No booking required.

Kung Fu Grandma (Jeongwon Park, 27 mins, 2012)

+ Q&A with director Jeongwon Park

Kung Fu Grandma

In a rural Kenyan slum, elderly women have become vulnerable to attack, at the hands of younger men.

Fuelled by rumours that intercourse with an elderly woman can act as a cure for AIDS, a spate of horrifying sexual assaults has occurred. Now, a group of grandmothers come together to protect themselves the eponymous Kung Fu Grannies.

Vibration (Bareun Jo, 15 mins, 2016)

Vibration

When Mr Wang sorts the possessions of his recently deceased wife, he finds something which will change how he views her, and himself.

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