A Leave / 휴가
Jae-bok is 49 years old. He was made redundant from his workplace. He and his colleagues have been staging a sit-in for the past 5 years. After the union lost the final lawsuit demanding for the layoffs to be annulled (including their own), they decide it’s time to suspend the strike. Jae-bok goes home, and gets a part-time job at a furniture factory to earn some money during the leave. One of his daughters needs a deposit for her college tuition, the other one needs a down jacket. During his time spent in this new life, new job and with his daughters, he realizes he feels more content every day. It’s at this point that he’s approached with a full-time job offer.
Director:
Lee Ran-hee
Cast:
Lee Bong-ha
Kim Ah-seok
Shin Woon-seop
2020
drama
81 minutes
English and Hungarian subtitles
Parental guidance is required for children under the age of 12.
SCREENING
| Debrecen, Apolló Mozi | 10/15/2022, 18:00 | Booking |
An Old Lady / 69세
Hyo-jeong, a 69 year-old woman, is raped by a male caregiver. She informs Dong-in, who lives with her, and files a report to the police. But it seems most people, the police included, have difficulty believing her. Would that handsome young man really do such a thing? Dong-in loves Hyo-jeong dearly, and does his best to right the injustices she suffers, but even he doesn’t trust her wholeheartedly. The caregiver claims their encounter was fully consensual. The court acquits him of the charges. Hyo-jeong devises a plan to deal with him herself.
Director:
Lim Sun-Ae
Cast:
Ye Su Jeong
Ki Joo Bong
Kim Jungyeong
Kim Tae Hun
2019
drama
100 minutes
English and Hungarian subtitles
Parental guidance is required for children under the age of 16.
SCREENING
| Budapest, Corvin Mozi | 10/17/2022, 18:00 | Booking |
Cat’s Apartment / 고양이들의 아파트
The people have left, the cats have stayed. A soon to be demolished apartment complex in eastern Seoul. Since most of the residents have left, the abandoned building now belongs to cats. To them, it’s paradise: plenty of food and spots to sleep. But when the demolition begins, their lives will be at stake. The remaining residents establish an organization seeking ways to keep them safe. They hope their plans will work, but they also know it’s never easy to change the mind of a cat.
Director:
Jeong Jae-eun
2022
documentary
88 minutes
English and Hungarian subtitles
Can be viewed without age restrictions
SCREENING
| Budapest, Corvin Mozi | 10/18/2022, 20:00 | Booking |
Gyeong-ah’s Daughter / 경아의 딸
After the passing of her husband, Gyeong-ah lives alone, and works as a caregiver. The only one she relies on is her daughter, Yeon-su, but since she moved out, they rarely ever see each other anymore.
Meanwhile, Yeon-su has a problem of her own. She is constantly harassed by her ex-boyfriend, demanding to meet her. Yeon-su pays her mother a surprise visit to spend the weekend at her place. That night, Gyeong-ah receives an anonymous message - a video of her daughter having sex with a strange man. Gyeong-ah is mortified.
Director:
Kim Jung-eun
Cast:
Kim Jung-young
Ha Yoon-kyung
Park Hye-jin
2022
drama
119 minutes
English and Hungarian subtitles
Parental guidance is required for children under the age of 16.
SCREENING
| Budapest, Corvin Mozi | 10/15/2022, 18:00 | Booking |
Sewing sisters / 미싱타는 여자들
In 1970, young Jeon Tae-il set himself on fire, and died to bring the world’s attention to Korea’s cruel labor conditions. At the time, girls aged 12 to 16 were hired to sewing factories. Too young to work, but too poor not to. As a result of Jeon’s tragic sacrifice, laborers began to change. A labor union and a school were set up. But before long, these were shut down by the government, claiming: “the next Jeon will be female”. Some of the girls were imprisoned for opposing the government. On the 50th anniversary of Jeon’s death, it’s these now middle-aged women, looking back on their life as female laborers.
Director:
Lee Hyukrae
Kim Jung-young
Cast:
Lee Sukhee
Shin Soonae
Im Mikyung
2020
documentary
108 minutes
English and Hungarian subtitles
Can be viewed without age restrictions.
SCREENING
| Budapest, Corvin Mozi | 10/19/2022, 20:30 | Booking |
Song Hae 1927 / 송해 1927
At 94, Song Hae is the oldest active celebrity, and longest-running host of the 'National Singing Contest'. He has been a singer, comedian, actor, and radio DJ, but never a star. ‘Song Hae 1927’ shows a side of him we've never seen before, backstage. He hides his sadness and pain behind his serious look, and closed eyes. A man of few words. 'I wish I had had a chance to say goodbye to her.' - was all he could say to voice his pain over the death of his wife. A tranquil account of the several grievances of Song Hae’s life, a film in the director’s usual tone.
Director:
Yun Jero
Cast:
Song Hae
2021
documentary
82 minutes
English and Hungarian subtitles
Parental guidance is required for children under the age of 12.
SCREENING
| Budapest, Corvin Mozi | 10/16/2022, 16:30 | Booking |
Ten Months / 십개월의 미래
Mirae, a twentysomething game engineer, feels nauseous one day. To her horror, the sickness isn’t caused by a hangover, as she first suspected, but by a pregnancy. She panics, then goes into denial. Her family and friends are also of little help to her, all they can give her are mixed messages and contradicting advice. Mirae’s desperation turns into rage. But time is not on her side. Before she could fully comprehend what’s happening to her, Mirae finds herself in a strange new world.
Director:
Nam Koong-sun
Cast:
Choi Sung-eun
Seo Young-ju
Baek Hyun-jin
Yu Eden
2020
drama
96 minutes
English and Hungarian subtitles
Parental guidance is required for children under the age of 12.
SCREENING
| Budapest, Corvin Mozi | 10/17/2022, 20:30 | Booking |
The Man Who Paints Water Drops / 물방울을 그리는 남자
A son’s endeavor to understand his father through the obsession that has occupied most of his life: painting water drops. This Asian symbol of serenity gradually reveals a dark backstory, rooted in the tragic history of the artist’s homeland. Kim Tschang Yeul painted his first drop of water in 1971. Since then, this famous Korean artist has never painted anything else: small drops, big drops, hyper realistic drops, abstract drops, and so on. His body of work is a blend of aesthetics, meditation and alchemy. Its aim: to distill the world’s violence into crystalline drops of water. This man is a living enigma, shrouded in silence, like a sphinx.
This film sets out to peel back the layers beneath the public image of this old sage. Through his life, his past, his secrets and personal history, the universality of man emerges - the ever present quest for the discovery and communication of meaning.
Director:
Oan Kim & Brigitte Bouillot
Cast:
Kim Tschang-Yeul
2021
documentary
79 minutes
English and Hungarian subtitles
Can be viewed without age restrictions
SCREENING
| Budapest, Corvin Mozi | 10/16/2022, 18:30 | Booking |