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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Overview of articles

  • Invisible Light

    Intense, strongly acted and well visualised two part ‘experimental’ feature in which Gina Kim explores a woman’s struggle to free herself of obsessive
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  • Memories of Murder

    Melancholy humorous drama was the big hit of 2003 with press and audiences in Korea. The film is set in 1986, when Korea was ruled…
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  • Irreversible

    Mid-length South Korean independent film about a man, a woman and a third person, told and acted in a mysterious way.
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  • Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter… and Spring

    Transcendental, humorous, occasionally grim and above all wise film about the journey of life. An elderly monk teaches his young pupil some hard lesso
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  • Train to Busan

    Zombies threaten the passengers on a Korean high-speed train in this highly skilled, terrifying cross between Snowpiercer and 28 Days Later. The train
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  • A Quiet Dream

    Three odd friends each – unsuccessfully – vie for the attentions of bar owner Yeri, who also cares for her paralysed father. This charming
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  • Bamseom Pirates Seoul Inferno

    The Bamseom Pirates from Korea make music appropriate to our sick society: a hundred songs in ten minutes, that kind of thing. This at times…
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  • Yourself and Yours

    A playful narrative structure and psychological acumen are the two certainties in every film by Korean master Hong – also in his 18th feature. M
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  • Asura: City of Madness

    Very hard Korean noir, in which it becomes clear that it’s better not to be too squeamish in local politics. A corrupt, populist mayor stops…
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  • The Handmaiden

    Master swindler Count Fujiwara has taken an interest in the family fortune of Lady Hideko. To rob her, he conspires with her new maid Sook-hee.…
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