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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Overview of articles

  • Temper Clay

    A house in Seoul and one in the countryside are the point of departure for a poetic, musical film that ends with a quote from…
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  • Sunshine Boys

    Two students visit their school friend who has a weekend’s leave from military service. Subtle, melancholy drama about friendship, class differe
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  • Ugly Night

    Dongchul, who is regularly forced to steal food for street gangster Kyungho, receives a bigger job today.
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  • Jiseul

    Black-and-white (anti-) war film about the Korean army’s brutal suppression of the rebellion on Jeju in 1948. The islanders fled their villages and hi
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  • Comrade Kim Goes Flying

    Model worker dreams of life as a trapeze artist. The indestructibly cheerful social-realist melodrama and classically lit, colourful mise-en-scène are
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  • The Russian Novel

    With the same loving self-mockery in the face of romantic bombasts as in his low-budget jewel A Great Actor, Shin here introduces, meandering and exha
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  • Pieta

    You live alone. You work for a loan shark and occasionally break a limb of someone who doesn’t pay up, so the insurance will. Everything…
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  • Winter’s Night

    During a long, ice-cold and alcohol-fuelled night, two disillusioned fifty-somethings have a series of sobering, confrontational and disillusioning en
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  • Maria by the Sea

    A man and a woman are on a date. It quickly becomes apparent that their views are very different.
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  • The Spy Gone North

    Gripping, stylish narrative based on the true story of South Korea’s espionage operation, focused around the undercover agent ‘Black Venus’,
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