The London Korean Film Festival may be in its 14th year but Korean cinema has hit 100! To celebrate this historic milestone a good proportion of this year’s festival will be given over to marking that with a Special Focus on Korean film through those 100 years.
With this in mind and in celebration of the landmark, the festival will open on 1 November, for the first time, with a retrospective title, in a newly restored version and one never before seen in the UK, The Seashore Village (1965) the story of village mainly populated by women having lost their husbands to the sea. Closing the London festival on the 14th will be Scattered Night a new film that has the distressing premise of two young children waiting for their divorcing parents to make a choice about their future.
That may close the festival in London but from the 18th it tours around the country at various venues until 24 November.100 years is a magnificent achievement and the festival will seek to bring to the screen films that illustrate the development of the industry culturally and technically, high-points and low-points.
formerly Mad Cornish Projectionist.