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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Overview of articles

  • The Return

    Karoline and Thomas are young Danes who were adopted from South Korea. Returning to Seoul for the first time, they experience an elusive yet deep-seat
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  • Hit the Night

    The number of female filmmakers who break through in South Korea still forms a small minority. Hit the Night, in which Jeong Gayoung herself plays…
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  • The Day After

    A mendacious literary publisher and his recently employed female assistant find themselves in an embarrassing situation when the publisher’s wife accu
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  • The Fortress

    During the Qing Invasion, in 1636, the Korean king had to withdraw to an unassailable fort in the mountains. Surrounded by the enemy and more…
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  • A Tiger in Winter

    A film with an ideal title for IFFR, naturally. Festival favourite Lee Kwangkuk (Romance Joe) serves up a delicate, tragicomic romantic story about a
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  • Latency Contemplation 3

    Mountains, rocks, shadows, water: everything flows, is in motion, panta rhei. Latency Contemplation 3 is a choreography of horizontal lines,
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  • Night and Fog in Zona

    After the South Korean film critic Jung Sung-il saw Wang Bing’s monumental, nine-hour documentary Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks at IFFR 2003, he…
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