Hong Kong Arts Centre to Stage Korean Women Independent Film Series
Nov 30, 2020
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by Pierce Conran
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‘Women Direct. Korean Indies!’ Co-Presented by DMZ Docs and Seoul Independent Film Festival
The Hong Kong Arts Centre is set to present a series of screenings of independent films by Korean women, starting next month in Hong Kong. Co-presented by the DMZ International Documentary Film Festival and the Seoul Independent Film Festival, ‘Women Direct. Korean Indies!’ will feature 13 Korean films and screenings will take place from December 12 to May 25 next year in the Louis Koo Cinema and Hong Kong Arts Centre.
The series will seek to shine a light on a growing body of Korean films made by women that highlight pressing women’s issues in a society where a rising chorus is beginning to voice their dissatisfaction with the patriarchal system.
Kicking off the series in December will be KANGYU Ga-ram’s Itaewon (2019), which won the Best Director - Documentaries Award at the Wildflower Film Awards Korea this year, and AHN Ju-young’s A Boy and Sungreen, a Korean Academy of Film Arts project which debuted at the Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) in 2018, where it won the KTH Award.