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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

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  • Right Now, Wrong Then

    Can you step in the same river twice? Will a re-watched film be the same film? What is lost and (re)gained in perception? In another…
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  • Night and Fog in Zona

    For one whole winter, South Korean film critic Jung Sung-il followed his hero, Chinese documentary maker Wang Bing. Bing is known for his long films,
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  • Alone

    Nightmares can leave alarming and intangible traces; viewers also rarely know what’s what in this very clever film by Park Hongmin. A realistic thrill
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  • Communication & Lies

    The driving force behind this character study of a young woman shot in casual black-and-white is the imperturbable and alarming lack of shame with whi
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  • Romantic Heaven

    If our everyday lives are hell on earth, what are our romantic dreams of righting wrongs when we get to heaven? Jang Jin’s multi-stranded story…
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  • Black Stone

    Artist/filmmaker Roh has an impressively sombre world view; based on the sad fate of a Filipino-Korean family, he shows a decayed society where it&rsq
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  • A Matter of Interpretation

    In his playful and humorous second film, Lee demonstrates his narrative talent, if only by not getting lost when he allows his characters (including p
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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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