London Korean Film Festival 2017

View other London Korean Film Festival Films by strand: Animation, Cinema Now, Classics Revisited: Bae Chang-ho Retrospective, Documentary, Galas, Special Focus: Korean Noir, Illuminating the Dark Side of Society, Women's Voices

Bamseom Pirates Soul Inferno (Bam-Seom-Hae-Jeok-Dan Seo-ul Bul-Ba-Da) (Country: South Korea; Year: 2017; Director: Jung Yoon-suk)
Documentary about the Korean punk band.
A Confession Expecting A Rejection (Year: 2017; Director: Park Jeong-hoon; Stars: Kim Dong-won, Kim Hyun-jin, Kim Pan-kyum)
Minimalist, single-take film.
Merry Christmas Mr Mo (Laimingu Kaledu, pone Mo!) (Country: South Korea; Year: 2016; Director: Lim Dae-hyung ; Writer: Lim Dae-hyung ; Stars: Gi Ju-bong, Oh Jung-hwan, Go Won-hee)
Comic drama about a terminally ill barber whose dying wish is to make a short film directed by his distant son.
Non-Fiction Diary (Country: South Korea; Year: 2013; Director: Jung Yoon-suk ; Writer: Jung Yoon-suk ; Stars: Ko Byung-chun, Kim Hyung-tae, Park Sang-gu, Jo Sung-ae, Oh Hu-geun, Oh Young-rok, Jung Hyung-bok, Han Wan-sang )
What do savage serial killings have to do with the collapse of both a department store and a busy road bridge in Seoul?
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