Korean Ghost Stories – ieodo
Version of a popular folk tale about a mysterious island realm ruled by women. A rare treasure of television!
69'
South Korea
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Modern Korea: The Age of Beasts + Korean Ghost Stories – ieodo
Combined Programme
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COMBINED PROGRAMME:
Korean Ghost Stories – ieodo was chosen to screen alongside Modern Korea: The Age of Beasts on the suggestion of the latter's producer-director, Jeong Jaeeun, who quotes extensively and lovingly from it.
This episode from a popular Korean TV series of strange folk tales narrates the legend of Ieodo Island, an empire ruled by women that is sometimes seen as a utopia. A television treasure.
Modern Korea: The Age of Beasts
An archive materials-based investigation into the way Korean state television in the 1980s and 1990s presented discrimination and violence against women in teleplays, talk and variety shows, as well as news items. A timely think piece of rare cinematic elegance!
Combined Programme
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In this combined programme
Modern Korea: The Age of Beasts
An investigation into the way Korean television presented discrimination and violence against women in teleplays and news items.
48'
South Korea
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Cinema Regained
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90'
ČSSR
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Korean Ghost Stories – ieodo
Version of a popular folk tale about a mysterious island realm ruled by women. A rare treasure of television!
69'
South Korea
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The Lady from Constantinople
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76'
Hungary
IFFR 2022