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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

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  • The Quiz Show Scandal

    Jang Jin takes the temperature of present-day Korea in this sprawling ensemble comedy, in which everyone scrambles to win a lucrative TV-quiz prize by
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  • Someone Grateful

    Jang Jin’s most brilliant satire, made for Korea’s Human Rights Commission, rethinks one of the Left’s most sacred cows: the torture of student activi
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  • A Hot Roof

    Scripted by Jang Jin, this lacerating feminist drama was one of the films that launched Korea’s new wave in the mid-1990s. Ten women who have…
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  • Man on High Heels

    Jang Jin’s fetish actor Cha Seung-Won plays an ultra-macho cop with a deep secret: he wants a sex change. Meanwhile he’s caught between taking down…
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  • Murder, Take One

    In the near future, Jang Jin suggests, murder trials will be staged as TV shows. An Agatha Christie-like mystery surrounds the murder of a woman…
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  • The Recipe

    Co-written and produced by Jang Jin, Lee’s second feature is a foodie’s delight. A cynical TV newsman searches for the unique recipe which turns an…
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  • Welcome to Dongmakgol

    A Korean Shangri-La, Dongmakgol is a mountain village that finds itself hosting stray soldiers from both sides in the Korean War, along with a wounded
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  • Alive

    Impressive and challenging story about poverty, inequality and human suffering in today’s South Korea by the maker of Tiger Award-winner Journal
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  • We Are Brothers

    Two brothers separated in childhood are brought together as adults – only to find that one is now a Christian pastor and the other a…
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  • Set Me Free

    Autobiographically inspired feature debut by one of South Korea’s greatest talents is an unusual coming-of-age film. A schoolboy who fled his irrespon
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