Writer-director Kim Bo-ra’s House of Hummingbird is a coming-of-age film of rare patience and clarity, imbuing the wandering existence of 14-year-old Eun-hee (Park Ji-hu) and her 1994 Seoul environment with understated mood and a vivid sense […]
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What begins as a claustrophobic study of a restless shut-in’s daily solitude ultimately blooms into an absurdity-tinged story of courage and self-actualisation in the comical and compassionate Love Me Tender. As the socially stunted Seconda (Barbara Giordano) […]
In the darkly comic History of Nipples, Ron Burt (Joseph Macnab) falls down an existential rabbit hole pondering a question that all of us have asked at some point in our lives: What are men’s […]
The cinema of Kwon Hayoun is haunted by absence, standing as a ghostly echo of what’s long gone or never was. Though her short films use real-life stories and experiences as their subjects, these elegiac […]
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 […]
Park Kiyong (b. 1961) is a singular figure in Korean film culture: a KAFA graduate who went on to combine a filmmaking career with a key role in film teaching at KAFA itself and at […]