KOREAN FILM FESTIVAL 2023

Indo Cine Appreciation Foundation, in association with the Consulate General of the Republic of Korea in Chennai, is organizing KOREAN FILM FESTIVAL 2023  at Tagore Film Centre NFDC, 2787+R4F, Music College Road, State Bank of India Colony, Raja Annamalai Puram, Chennai – 600028.

 

Date: 9th – 11st June 2023
(Non-members of ICAF, please call on 9840151956/8939022618 for more details)

 

 

Schedule

 

KOREAN FILM FESTIVAL 2023

9th June 2023 

(Friday) 

Inaugural Function  6:00 pm 

Tagore Film Centre NFDC, 2787+R4F, Music College Road, State Bank of India Colony, Raja Annamalai Puram, Chennai – 600028

Wonderful Nightmare/Misseu waipeu/2015/Dir.: Kang Hyo-jin/125 min  6.30 pm 

10th June 2023 

(Saturday) 

My Love, My Bride/Na-eui sa-lang na-eui sin-boo/2014/ 

Dir.: Chan-sang Lim/111 min 

2.30 pm 
Move the Grave/Ijang/2020/Dir.: Seung-O Jeong/94 min  4.20 pm 

11th June 2023 

(Sunday) 

The Hill of Wind/Balam-ui eondeog/2020/Dir.: Seok-yeong Park/108 min  2.30 pm 
Granny Poetry Club/Chilgoggasinadeul/2019/Dir.: Jae-Hwan Kim/100 min  4.20 pm 

 

Wonderful Nightmare/Misseu waipeu/2015/Dir.: Kang Hyo-jin/125 min/June 9/

6.30 pm

Yeon-woo is a successful lawyer who gets into an automobile accident leading her to fall into a coma. She wakes in heaven to find that her death was a clerical error and it was actually an old woman with the same name who was meant to die. To hide the mistake, she is asked to live as another woman for just one month.

Nomination: 1

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5058114/

 

My Love, My Bride/Na-eui sa-lang na-eui sin-boo/2014/Dir.: Chan-sang Lim/

111 min/June 10/2.30 pm

Young-min and Mi-young are a young couple who get married after graduating from college. Following the honeymoon period, they begin to bicker with each other. While waiting for her husband at a café one day, Mi-young bumps into her ex-boss. Young-min sees this and gets the wrong idea.

Nomination: 1

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4038966/

 

Move the Grave/Ijang/2020/Dir.: Seung-O Jeong/94 min/June 10/4.20 pm

Hye Yeong receives a letter of notification that her father’s grave should be forcibly removed due to modernization projects. Hye Yeong and the sisters are gathered in a long time, but only the brother cannot reach easily. The movie starts Ri-woo Jang, Seon-hee Lee, Geum Sun-Ah Yoon & Kwak Min-Gyoo (Seung-rak).

Wins: 3, Nomination: 1

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10410604/

 

The Hill of Wind/Balam-ui eondeog/2020/Dir.: Seok-yeong Park/108 min/

June 11/2.30 pm

After the death of her husband, Youngboon tells her stepson, Yongjin, of her plans for a short trip. However, she has other plans in her mind, mainly to go back to her hometown, Taebaek, to get a job. She hopes to start a new life there. Fortunately, she succeeds in getting a job as a cleaning lady in a small motel.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11644156/

 

Granny Poetry Club/Chilgoggasinadeul/2019/Dir.: Jae-Hwan Kim/100 min/

June 11/4.20 pm

The grannies from Chilgok memorized the multiplication table in Japanese and lived their entire lives illiterate in Korean. This was because in 1937, the Japanese Governor-General of Korea banned the usage and education of the Korean language in all schools. Then a school opened in their village sparks a fire in their hearts.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9166006/

 

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