This year’s edition of the Women’s Voices strand celebrates first-time directors, bringing to the British audiences four feature-length films by Korean women filmmakers that already made an impact at the Seoul International Women’s Film Festival, Busan IFF and Amsterdam’s IDFA.

In keeping with the major trends in contemporary Korean independent cinema, social issues constitute the backdrop to many stories presented here, from financial hardship and housing crisis to different social taboos.

A Bedsore + Q&A with director 
Fri 8 Nov, 6.15pm | ICA
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Followed by Women’s Networking Event
As a festering bedsore on the suffering mother’s body opens old family wounds and grievances, Shim Hyejung’s strong debut feature makes us also think about the issues around the ethics of care for the elderly.

A Boy and Sungreen 
Sun 10 Nov, 5.00pm | Picturehouse Central
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The difficulties of growing up with a single parent and searching for a lost family member are given comedy treatment in Ahn Ju-young’s debut feature in which two high school students, Nok-yang and her slightly awkward best friend Bo-hee join forces to find Bo-hee’s father.

Yukiko + extended discussion with director 
Mon 11 Nov, 2.30pm | British Museum
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Framed by the question “Can you mourn for a person of whom you have no memory?”, Noh Young Sun’s first documentary feature tells a heartbreaking story of absence and loss rooted in the turmoil of the Korean War.

Youngju
Sat 2 Nov, 3.30pm | Rio Cinema
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In this skilfully directed feature debut things are not what they seem at first glance. The eponymous Youngju and her brother Youngin, two young orphaned siblings whose parents died in a car accident, struggle to survive in the mean adult world of calculating relatives and scam loan companies.

More at https://us1.campaign-archive.com/?u=6b0946d8bb76bdb15a3f9c6ac&id=1d82fc9dc3

and http://koreanfilm.co.uk/site/film-festival-2019/womens-voices

October 29, 2019