Amid all the justified excitement about Parasite, let’s not forget that Korea has another film with an Oscar nomination this year. Its producer, Gary Byung-Seok Kam, is in town to answer your questions at a screening at the ICA this weekend. In the Absence Dir Yi Seung-Jun, South Korea / USA 2018, 29 min., Korean […]
Category: Documentaries
Glittering Hands screens at SOAS
SOAS Korean Social and Environmental Justice Society host a moving documentary that will appeal to those who loved Planet of Snail. You can watch an Arirang interview with the director here. Glittering Hands 반짝이는 박수소리 + director Bora Lee-Kil Q&A Wednesday, 29 January 2020 at 18:30 SOAS | Thornhaugh Street | London WC1H 0XG Room […]
Jeronimo: an untold tale of a Korean Cuban revolutionary screens at the KCC
Some London based readers may know the person who assisted with the Spanish in this documentary. Great to see it on screen. Jeronimo: An untold tale of a Korean Cuban revolutionary + Director Q&A Thursday 20 February 2020, 19:00 – 22:00 GMT Korean Cultural Centre UK | 1-3 Strand | London WC2N 5BW Admission free […]
Exploring the 1980s Korean film collectives with Kim Hong-joon
Organised by the KCC in conjunction with Birkbeck, and acting as a prelude to the Essay Film Festival 2020. Exploring the 1980s Korean film collectives with Kim Hong-joon Saturday 15 February 2020, 18:00 – 20:00 GMT Birkbeck Cinema | 43 Gordon Square | Bloomsbury | London WC1H 0PD Admission free | Register on Eventbrite Filmmaker/programmer/academic […]
Film Screening: North Korean Ghost Ships
Nicholas Ahlmark (Director) Friday 22 November 2019, 5:15 – 7:00pm SOAS, Paul Webley Wing (Senate House), Alumni Lecture Theatre Register on SOAS website Documentary filmmaker Nicholas Ahlmark, will visit to show his new documentary ‘North Korean Ghost Ships’ and give a Q+A. Director Biography Nicholas has built a career and reputation working on documentaries for […]
Screening: Returning, After Seventy Years
Wednesday 29 October 2019, 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm SOAS | Russell Square | College Buildings Room: 4429 Register online here Synopsis In September 1950 the Daily Worker journalist Alan Winnington released his pamphlet “I Saw The Truth in Korea” which documented atrocities in Daejeon during the Korean War presided over by the South Korean […]
London East Asia Film Festival 2019: the official press release
London’s annual East Asian film festival returns for its fourth year at the end of October. The 2019 programme includes cinematic offerings from 11 countries, including two movies from North Korea. The festival opens with a South Korean disaster comedy movie and closes with a film by celebrated East Asian actor Aaron Kwok. Here is […]
London Korean Film Festival 2019: the official press release
Here is today’s official press release that announces the line-up for the 2019 London Korean Film Festival: The London Korean Film Festival (LKFF) has launched its full programme of films and events for the upcoming 14th edition, taking place from 1st-14th November in London before embarking on the annual tour 18th-24th November. The Special Focus, […]
Screening: Bucket List of a 17 Year Old, 21 Sept @ Birkbeck
This month’s Sewol commemoration event brings another chance to see a documentary by Solji Yoon. Bucket List of a 17 Year Old Director: Sol-ji Yoon (2015, 80mins) Korean language with English subtitles. Saturday, 21 September 2019, 13:00-16:00 Birkbeck University of London | Room MAL532 | Malet St | London WC1E 7HX. Check for updates on […]
Screening: Daily Bread + 50 Years of Silence
On UN International Eliminate Sexual Violence in Conflict Day, SOAS Korean Social and Environmental Justice Society will have a special film event celebrating Jan Ruff O’Herne, a survivor of Japanese military sexual slavery, and human rights campaigner. Jan was inspired in 1991 by the Korean grandmothers to tell her story – and to tell her […]
Screening: Daily Bread + 50 Years of Silence
Two films on the subject of a Dutch “Comfort Woman”. Daily Bread + 50 Years of Silence Arapina | 8 Little Thames Walk | London SE8 3FB 6pm, Wednesday 1 May 2019 Daily Bread Director: Ruby Challenger (Australia 2018, 15 mins, Dutch & Japanese with English subtitles. Historical drama) 50 Years of Silence Director: Ned […]
Sewol Ferry Disaster 5th anniversary events
Remembering Sewol Disaster UK is commemorating the 5th anniversary of the tragedy with a series of events: The 60th ‘Stay Put’ Protest Saturday, 13 April 2019 from 12:30-14:00 in Trafalgar Square Screening of the documentary Crossroads (dir Neil P George) Saturday, 13 April 2019 from 16:00-18:30 at SOAS, room G3 Screening of Bucket List of […]
Sewol Disaster 5 Year Anniversary: Screening of Crossroads
The first of three screenings that commemorate the Sewol ferry victims, five years after the original tragedy. Crossroads Director: Neil P George UK 2018, 82mins, English language / Korean language with English subtitles. Saturday, 13 April 2019 from 16:00-18:30 Free public film screening at SOAS, Room G3 | Check the Facebook event page for updates […]
Sewol Disaster 5 Year Anniversary: Screening of Bucket List of a 17 Year Old
As part of the 5th anniversary commemoration of the Sewol ferry disaster: Bucket List of a 17 Year Old South Korea 2015, 80mins, Korean language with English subtitles. Director: Sol-ji Yoon Tuesday, 16 April 2019 from 19:00-21:00 Free public film screening at SOAS, Room G3 | Check the Facebook event page for updates Five members […]
Sewol Disaster 5 Year Anniversary: Screening of In the Absence
As part of a programme of events organised by Remembering Sewol UK commemorating the 5th anniversary of the Sewol ferry disaster, the KCC is screening two short documentaries. The Producer of In the Absence, Gary Byung-Seok Kam, will be answering questions afterwards. This documentary is not to be missed: its screening at SOAS last term […]
Brief review: In the Absence – a brief Sewol documentary that packs a punch
Some of the best things come in small sizes, and this documentary about the Sewol tragedy is one of them. In the Absence: in the absence of a serious rescue effort, in the absence of decent, serious reporting by the mainstream media, in the absence of many other things. The documentary is only 29 minutes […]
Two Koreans documentaries win at London International Filmmaker Festival
Koreans scored two successes at the International Filmmaker Festival of World Cinema awards ceremony in London this evening. Producer and curator Stephanie Seungmin Kim collected the award for Best Director of a Foreign Language Documentary Film for ‘Sleepers in Venice’, which gives a behind-the-scenes story of the planning and installation of the collateral group exhibition […]