Fresh
In the Fresh section, we have selected the best films from the current Korean cinema line-up.
12.12: The Day / 서울의 봄
After the assassination of President Park, martial law was declared. A coup d’état bursts out by Defense Security Commander CHUN Doo-gwang and a private band of officers following him. Capital Defense Commander LEE Tae-shin, an obstinate soldier who believes the military should not take political actions, fights against CHUN Doo-gwang to stop him. The conflict between the two grows while military leaders are holding their decision and the Defense Minister is gone. In the midst of chaos, the spring of Seoul that everyone longed for heads to an unexpected direction.
Director:
Sung-soo Kim
Cast:
Jung-min Hwang
Woo-sung Jung
Sung-min Lee
Hae-joon Park
Sung-kyun Kim
2023
Drama, History
141 min
Hungarian and English subtitles
SCREENING
| Budapest, Corvin Mozi | 10/17/2024, 18:00 | Booking |
Cobweb / 거미집
In 1970s Korea, when both art and dreams are censored, a film director dreams of a masterpiece. After his successful debut, Director KIM endures scathing attacks from critics who call him a specialist in trashy dramas. After finishing his latest feature ‘Cobweb’, he has vivid dreams over several days of an alternative ending to the film. Sensing that if he can just shoot those scenes as he envisioned them, a masterpiece will surely emerge, he tries to arrange just two days of additional shooting. However, the rewritten script fails to pass censorship, and his actors can’t make sense of the new ending. Between the tangled schedule, the opposition of the producer, and the collision between these fantastic scenes dancing before his eyes and the harsh conditions of reality, Director KIM feels he is about to go insane, but he pushes on regardless...
“If I can just change the ending, a masterpiece will emerge. All I need is two days!”
Director:
Jee-woon Kim
Cast:
Kang-ho Song
Soo-jung Lim
Jung-se Oh
Yeo-been Jeon
Krystal Jung
Jung-soo Park
Young-nam Jang
2023
Black comedy
132 min
Hungarian and English subtitles
SCREENING
| Budapest, Corvin Mozi | 10/15/2024, 18:00 | Booking |
Following / 그녀가 죽었다
Realtor Jung Tae’s hobby is sneaking into strangers’ homes and peeping into their lives. One day, an unfamiliar face in the area grabs his attention: Instagram star So Ra. Miraculously, So Ra leaves her house key at Jung Tae’s agency, and Jung Tae visits her home whenever he can, thrilled and excited. Like any other day, Jung Tae makes another visit and finds what he hadn’t expected: the dead body of So Ra. Even worse, all evidence says that Jung Tae is the criminal. Can he find the real killer and clear his name?
Director:
Se-hwi Kim
Cast:
Yo-han Byun
Hae-sun Shin
El Lee
2024
Mystery, Thriller
103 min
Hungarian and English subtitles
SCREENING
| Budapest, Corvin Mozi | 10/13/2024, 18:00 | Booking |
Our Season / 3일의 휴가
“Your daughter can’t see or hear you.
Just watch and take back good, happy memories from your vacation.”
On the third anniversary of the day she died, “Bok-ja” (Kim Hae-sook) receives a three-day vacation from heaven. She comes down to earth with "Guide" (Kang Ki-young), who is new on the job and explains the rules she must keep. The excitement of seeing her daughter, a professor at a prestigious university in the United States, whom she is very proud of, does not last long. Bok-ja is startled to find her daughter "Jin-ju" (Shin Min-a), who has returned to her rural home, and is running a home-cooked meal restaurant. Oblivious to her mother’s disappointment and frustrations, Jin-ju starts to recall her mother’s recipes with her best friend “Mi-jin” (Hwang Bo-ra) who comes to visit her. As Jin-ju makes the familiar dishes, old memories of the mother and daughter surface…
Director:
Sang-hyo Yook
Cast:
Hae-sook Kim
Min-a Shin
Ki-young Kang
Bo-ra Hwang
2023
Fantasy, Drama
105 min
Hungarian and English subtitles
SCREENING
| Budapest, Corvin Mozi | 10/12/2024, 14:00 | Booking |
Single in Seoul / 싱글 인 서울
“I’m the only perfect match for myself. Singlehood is the answer!”
Walking alone, resting alone, eating alone, living alone...
‘Young-ho’ (LEE Dong-wook) is a power influencer who enjoys being alone.
“No one is completely alone.”
Having a fling alone, thinking it’s a ‘green light’ to start dating alone...
‘Hyun-jin’ (LIM Soo-jung) is an expert editor of a publishing company who hates being alone.
Young-ho and Hyun-jin meet as a writer and editor of an essay series about being single called, "Single in the City".
With very different lifestyles and values, they butt heads over the book, but slowly start to feel that it’s
not so bad being together. In Seoul, where it’s comfortable alone but love is in the air,
the single lives of “Young-ho” and “Hyun-jin” are unveiled!
Director:
Beom-soo Park
Cast:
Dong-wook Lee
Soo-jung Im
Esom
2023
Romantic comedy
103 min
Hungarian and English subtitles
SCREENING
| Budapest, Corvin Mozi | 10/13/2024, 20:15 | Booking |
The Roundup: Punishment / 범죄도시 4
Three years after the synthetic drug case roundup in Korea, beast cop Ma Seok-do and Metro Investigations are busy chasing down criminals who are dealing drugs through a delivery app, when the app distributor is found dead in the Philippines. The team soon realizes that this case involves a huge illegal online gambling business. In the Philippines, ex-special forces mercenary Baek Chang-gi monopolizes Korea’s illegal online gambling business by means of abduction, confinement, assault, and even murder. Meanwhile back in Korea, IT genius CEO Chang Dong-cheol is hatching even bigger plans. Detective Ma reaches out to Jang I-su for help, and with support from the Cyber Investigations team, Metro Investigations begins to roundup some criminals...
Director:
Myeong-haeng Heo
Cast:
Don Lee
Mu-yeol Kim
Joo-bin Lee
Ji-hwan Park
2024
Action, Crime
109 min
Hungarian and English subtitles
SCREENING
| Budapest, Corvin Mozi | 10/12/2024, 18:00 | Booking |
Troll Factory / 댓글부대
Talented yet arrogant city desk journalist Lim Sang-jin investigates corruption within the major corporation Manjun, only to have his report debunked as a hoax, leading to his integrity being questioned.
“Your article wasn’t false. It was a trick that we orchestrated”
Then one day, a suspicious tip is sent to Lim. The mysterious whistleblower introduces himself as a member of the online opinion manipulation team known as Team Alep, which fabricated both truth and lies for the right price...
“It’s not illegal. Not sure if it’s legal”
Where does the truth begin and the lie end?
Director:
Gooc-jin Ahn
Cast:
Suk-ku Son
Sung-cheol Kim
Dong-hwi Kim
Kyung Hong
2024
Crime, Drama
109 min
Hungarian and English subtitles
SCREENING
| Budapest, Corvin Mozi | 10/16/2024, 18:00 | Booking |
While you were sleeping / 당신이 잠든 사이
Joon-seok is a successful middle-aged author whose novels become bestsellers upon release, and his wife Deok-hee is an art instructor for children at a department store cultural center.
They look like a seemingly normal couple who lead happy lives, but their biggest problem is Deok-hee’s selective amnesia, which is an after effect of her automobile accident a year ago. Most of her memories in the past 2 years are gone. One day, Joon-seok heads to Gangneung on a research trip to prep for his new novel and tragically dies in an accident. Overwhelmed with sorrow, Deok-hee also heads to Gangneung because she found something peculiar about him. Once there, she traces his journey and is shocked to find aspects of his life that are unbelievable and disappointing. But little by little, these moments help her regain her memory. Can she regain all of her memories through Joon-seok’s secret?
Director:
Yoon-Hyun Chang
Cast:
Ja-hyun Choo
Moo-saeng Lee
2024
Mystery, Drama
100 min
Hungarian and English subtitles
SCREENING
| Budapest, Corvin Mozi | 10/14/2024, 18:00 | Booking |