Faces
Showcasing one of Korea's most high-impact filmmakers, this section provides audiences with a comprehensive picture of the featured creator. In 2023, our focus is on the work of the director Hee-jung Kim, who will also be available for a live ...
Read moreA French Woman / 프랑스 여자
A farewell party unexpectedly promises a fresh start. Mira, who is in her mid-forties, has been living in Paris for more than twenty years. Having just divorced her French husband, she impulsively decides to visit Korea, and meets her old friends Young-eun and Sung-woo with whom she used to play together in lessons twenty years previously. Whilst enjoying fun times in a bar, Mira goes to the bathroom and when she returns, it appears that time has reversed twenty years. She realizes it is the day of her farewell party before she sets off for France. In trying to piece together whether this is all an illusion or not, Mira goes through a series of mysteriously reversing slips in time.
Director:
Hee-jung Kim
Cast:
Ho-jung Kim
Ji-young Kim
Young-min Kim
2020
Drama
88 minutes
English and Hungarian subtitles
SCREENING
| Budapest, Corvin Mozi | 10/14/2023, 18:00 | Booking |
Snow Paths / 설행_눈길을 걷다
An alcoholic has a chance encounter with the daughter of a shaman who has become a nun. Jeong-woo is sent to a sanitarium deep in the mountain to overcome his alcoholism. There he meets Maria, a young nun who has a special ability to see inside people. In an isolated sanitarium Maria is the only person who seems to care for him, and soon he feels drawn to her. While struggling with his withdrawal symptoms, Jeong-woo experiences a fantasy where his reality is completely different from what he perceives. The further he escapes from his alcoholism, the closer he confronts the past that he has denied for years.
Director:
Hee-jung Kim
Cast:
Tae-hoon Kim
So-dam Park
Moo-seong Choi
2016
Drama
98 minutes
English and Hungarian subtitles
SCREENING
| Budapest, Corvin Mozi | 10/14/2023, 16:15 | Booking |
Where would you like to go? / 어디로 가고 싶으신가요
A school teacher, Do-kyung, dies whilst trying, but failing, to save his student Ji-yong from drowning. After the two pass away, Do-kyung’s wife Myung-ji, and Ji-yong’s sister Ji-eun are left alone in the world, having to cope with the loss of their loved ones. Myung-ji travels to Warsaw, Poland, to distance herself from her harsh reality and meets an old friend from whom she hides her husband’s death as if appearing to reject the tragedy. Meanwhile, being unable to let her brother go, Ji-eun is hospitalized and her health deteriorates. Lacking any enthusiasm for life, Ji-eun struggles to recover. On the day of the Warsaw Uprising, where people commemorate the victims of their dark history, Myung-ji returns to her home in Korea, where a letter from Ji-eun is waiting.
Director:
Hee-jung Kim
Cast:
Ha-sun Park
Nam-hee Kim
Suk-ho Jun
2023
Drama
103 minutes
English and Hungarian subtitles
SCREENING
| Budapest, Sugár Mozi | 10/15/2023, 16:30 | Booking |