Short Film Festival Ttang (땅) is a new film programme presented as part of Kollab & Kulture, a monthly event series at Poplar Union (E14 6TL) introducing contemporary Korean art and culture through music, dance, performance, and hanbok.
This festival explores the theme of “Ttang” (meaning ground or earth), tracing how memories, identities, and places accumulate, disappear, and transform over time. Through a selection of short films by emerging Korean and UK filmmakers, Ttang captures the fragile yet cyclical relationship between people and the lands they inhabit.
Each film invites the audience to reflect on what remains, what fades, and what is reborn — through moving images that embody the rhythms of life and memory.
Language: Korean with English subtitles
Screenings
Those who Leave Buy Flowers (떠나는 사람은 꽃을 산다)
Dir. Nam Sohyeon
A quiet meditation on departure and farewell — where buying flowers becomes a ritual of remembering and letting go.
First Summer (첫여름)
Dir. Heo Gayoung (Winner, La Cinéf First Prize, Cannes 2025)
A delicate portrait of adolescence, time, and the fleeting warmth of early summer.
If I Were an Apple (내가 사과라면)
Dir. Kim Hee Jin
A poetic reflection on imagination, transformation, and the desire to become something beyond oneself.
Curated by
Haerin Kim (김혜린) — a London-based curator whose work explores the circulation of traces, memory, and transformation across visual and sonic media.
She has previously curated for Festival YOUth K-Short Film Festival and POT!, introducing emerging Korean voices to UK audiences.
Presented by
Kollab & Kulture — a London-based cultural platform bridging Korean Culture. Each month, Kollab & Kulture hosts live performances, film screenings, and exhibitions that connect creators across disciplines and geographies.