The titular relationship of The Poet and the Boy is defined by a one-sided and stifled passion that might still serve as a preferable alternative to no passion at all. In the directorial debut of Kim Yang-hee, Yang […]
Author: David Pountain
Watch New World and Fly Me to Minami on FilmDoo In the transnational cinema of Kah-Wai Lim, issues of class, culture and the economy form the fabric of everyday interactions, turning border-crossing dramas like New World and Fly Me to Minami […]
Director: Lee Kwang-kuk London Korean Film Festival teaser screening review A quiet sense of defeat runs through every long, despondent stare and impeded attempt at communication in Lee Kwang-kuk’s latest effort. Though the escaped zoo […]
Watch No Shade on FilmDoo Channelling timely and intersectional social commentary through a web of intersecting relationships, No Shade presents an articulate and accessible picture of colourism in Black British communities. Centring its ensemble drama around the […]
In the reverent Jung Il-woo, My Friend, Korean director Kim Dong-won presents the political tumult and struggles of the urban and peasant communities through the prism of one dedicated activist, charity worker and Jesuit priest. […]
Song Yun-hyeok’s A Slice Room documents the lives of Korean men and women who have fallen through the cracks of the nation’s welfare system. Focusing on a few tenants of the ‘jjokbangchon’ (‘villages of slice’) residential […]