Country in Focus: Korean Passion

   10.17 | Fri | 21:00 (Choose time to view the Screening Schedule)

FOREVER THE MOMENT
The true story of the Korean Women’s Handball Team that won the Silver Medal in the 2004 Athens Olympics.  After winning gold medals in the 1988 and 1992 Olympics, housewife Han Mi-sook is asked to come out of retirement by former teammate Kim Hye-kyung to anchor a new team to Olympic Gold.

10.21 | Tue | 23:30

10.24 | Fri | 22:45 (Choose time to view the Screening Schedule)

3xFTM
The title refers to three "female-to-male" men. Ko has been taking hormones for 8 years in the belief that he must become completely "masculine" to be accepted; Han has his breasts removed as part of a process of becoming "ungendered"; while Kim finds that his new male legal identity opens up new confusions.

10.19 | Sun | 20:10

10.25 | Sat | 20:10

10.26 | Sun | 13:55 (Choose time to view the Screening Schedule)

THE WONDER YEARS
After her father's death, shy 13-year-old Soo-ah lives alone with a mother who is too busy running her diner to care for her adolescent daughter. Soo-ah, however, believes that her real mother is a popular singer. After a big fight, Soo-ah runs away to Seoul to to attend her real mother’s concert.

10.18 | Sat | 14:00

10.23 | Thu | 14:25

10.25 | Sat | 18:30 (Choose time to view the Screening Schedule)

BEFORE THE SUMMER PASSES AWAY
29-year-old So-yeon returns to Seoul from Paris for the summer. She drags her luggage to Busan in the south to see divorced diplomat Min-hwan.  In France, they had had an affair, but back in Korea he only expresses ambivalence towards her.  Meanwhile, she has won the affections of another man, Jae-hyun.

Korean Shorts

10.18 | Sat | 10:30 
10.25 | Sat | 15:10 
10.26 | Sun | 12:15 (Choose time to view the Screening Schedule)

THINGS YOU CAN'T AVOID IN THE CITY
An anonymous woman is weary of life in a city that is perpetually being demolished and reconstructed.  As part of a new city plan, her own low-rent house is suspended in mid-air by a huge crane and may crash to the ground at any moment.  Meanwhile, an itinerant man feeds on her space, food and flesh.

HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS
A group of high school girls play poker, fight over sham examination marks and spend the odd night with an after-school teacher. These are not the psychological traumatic years that we often see portrayed in movies, but vibrant moments of female adolescence that should be cherished throughout adulthood.

MI-JA'S BEAUTY PARLOR
Mi-ja has lost her Seoul hair salon to money lenders. She takes over a hair salon in the countryside, but is lonely in the sticks with the lack of customers.  Her life changes when she meets paraplegic Eun-joo.  Eun-joo doesn't open up easily, but Mi-ja's infectiously positive nature soon overcomes her initial reticence.

LIONESSES
A thrilling vision of female bonding, fighting back against male violence through the metaphor of cannibalism.  When Jeong-hee, who runs a meat shop at a cattle market, runs away from her abusive gambling husband, the other women in the cattle market help her and teach her how to be stronger.