THE 2017 Korean Film Festival in SM Lanang Premier
THE 2017 Korean Film Festival makes a stopover in Davao City on September 14-17, 2017 in SM Lanang Premier.
The festival is a flagship project of the Embassy of the Republic of Korea and the Korean Cultural Center in the Philippines that aims to showcase the culture of Korea through film.
The theme that weaves all the five films in the festival is Boldness of Youth.
The films feature young characters who face various challenges in their lives. Through these films, viewers can get encouragement if they're facing the same situation or for the older audiences, they can reminisce about their past or try to understand the youth of today about what they're going through. Movie Title: How to Steal A Dog Director: Kim Sung Ho Cast: Kang Hye Jung, Kim Hye Ja, Lee Re, Choi Min Soo, Lee Chun Hee Total Running Time: 110 minutes Production Company: Little Big Pictures, Daemyung Culture Factory / VIVA Communications, Inc.
Genre: Drama / Children / Single Mother / Crime / Heist Year: 2014 Synopsis: A young girl’s father goes bankrupt. The girl's family loses their houses and they don't have a place to live. One day, the girl sees a flyer offering a reward of $500 for a missing dog. The young girl then sets out to "borrow" dogs from wealthy families to obtain reward money. Movie Title: Twenty Director: Lee Byeong Hun Cast: Kim Woo Bin, Kang Ha Neul, Lee Jun Ho Total Running Time: 115 minutes Production Company: Next Entertainment World / VIVA Communications, Inc.
Genre: Youth / Friends / Comedy / Drama / Coming of Age Year: 2015 Synopsis: Chi-ho, Kyung-jae and Dong-woo are best friends who've just graduated from high school and turned 20. Chi-ho is an unemployed player living in the moment and whose number one priority is dating and chasing women. Kyung-jae is a goody-two-shoes university student whose goal is to get accepted at a corporate job; he's extremely shy around girls, but completely transforms when he gets drunk. And happy-go-lucky Dong-woo dreams of becoming a cartoonist, but when his family goes bankrupt, he's forced to become the breadwinner and take on several part-time jobs. Movie Title: My Brilliant Life Director: E J-yong Cast: Song Hye Kyo, Kang Dong Won Total Running Time: 117 minutes Production Company: CJ Entertainment / Korea Film Council Genre: Drama / Family Year: 2014 My Brilliant Life is a 2014 South Korean drama film starring Song Hye-kyo and Kang Dong-won. It was co-written and directed by E J-yong based on the 2011 novel My Palpitating Life by Kim Aeran. My Brilliant Life won the Third Place Audience Award at the 17th Udine Far East Film Festival in 2015.
Synopsis: Immature and clumsy Daesoo and beautiful but foul-mouthed Mi-ra were both seventeen-year-old teenagers when Mi-ra became pregnant. Their son Ah-reum was born, but he was diagnosed with the extremely rare genetic disorder progeria, which makes its recipient age prematurely and rapidly. Years later, Ah-reum is sixteen, but his body is that of an eighty-year-old man. Sensing that he doesn't have much time left, Ah-reum writes a story about how his young parents fell in love and how he came to be, hoping to give it as a gift to them on his seventeenth birthday. Movie Title: Very Ordinary Couple Director: Roh Deok Cast: Lee Min Ki, Kim Min Hee Total Running Time: 113 minutes Production Company: Lotte Entertainment / Korea Film Council Genre: Romance, Melodrama Year: 2013 Synopsis: Young (Kim Min-Hee) and Dong-Hee (Lee Min-Ki) work at the same bank. They secretly dated for the past 3 years, but recently decided to end their relationship. Both tell the other that they are fine, but inside they are not. Young's co-worker Son (Ra Mi-Ran) then tells her that she will introduce her to a good guy at dinner later that evening. At the bank worker's dinner get-together, Dong-Hee is also there and feels jealousy. He begins to talk negatively about Young in front of her and the man she just met. Young becomes furious at Dong-Hee and pours beer all over him. A loud confrontation takes place between the former lovers and everybody at the bank now knows they dated.
Their bitter breakup turns worse when each decides to go tit for tat. Dong-Hee demands his laptop back and Young mails it back to him, but she first smashes it to several pieces. Dong-Hee responds by mailing back her belongings, including foul smelling food that is now rotten. Adding fuel to the fire, Young logs into his Facebook account and discovers that he is already seeing another girl. Can they live without each other? Can they live with each other? Movie Title: The King of Jokgu Director: Woo Moon Gi Cast: Ahn Jae Hong, Hwang Seung Eon, Jung Woo Sik Total Running Time: 104 minutes Production Company: KwangHwaMoon Cinema / Korea Film Council Genre: Comedy, Sports Year: 2013 The King of Jokgu is a 2013 South Korean independent sports comedy film about Jokgu, a Korean cross between football and volleyball. A directorial feature debut by Woo Moon-gi, the film was a surprise hit, attracting over 40,000 viewers, unheard of for an indie comedy in Korea and was one of the most wellreceived indie films from 2014. It made its world premiere at the 18th Busan International Film Festival in 2013.
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