Director Yun Sung-hyun’s New Current Award winner at the Pusan International Film Festival focuses on a father and his search to find the connections between classmates at an all-boys school and his dead son.

Yun Sung-hyun graduated from Korean Academy of Film Arts and received strong reviews for his short film, Children, which appeared at the Mise-en-scene Short Film Festival, Fribourg International Film Festival, La Cabina International Medium-Length Film Festival, Chungmuro International Film Festival and Jeonju International Film Festival, where it received a Special Jury Award. His other short films, Drink and Confess and Daytrip, appeared at the Indieforum, Jeonju International Film Festival, and Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival. The screening is part of the Korean Cinema Now showcase, co-presented by the Museum of the Moving Image and The Korea Society. Ed Rothstein of The New York Times has described the venue as one where the “pleasures are considerable...it manages to amaze.”

Sunday, May 22
7PM 

Free with Museum admission  @ The Museum of the Moving Image

Winner of "Best New Narrative Director" at 2011 Tribeca Film Festival ! 

 

The Tribeca Film Festival presents the New York premiere of the much-anticipated The Journals of Musan, co-hosted with The Korea Society. Director Park Jung-bum’s debut tells the story of a North Korean defector forging a new life in South Korea. The film took the New Currents Award at the Pusan International Film Festival. Park, who assisted Lee Chang-dong on the stirring Poetry, presents a disarmingly beautiful vision of loneliness, disconnect, and ethical ambiguity in this story of a lost soul's struggle to connect. Park Jung-bum appears for Q&A with audiences after each screening.
 

Tickets available at TribecaFilm.com

The Korea Society closes out Asia Week 2011 at the Museum of the Moving Image with a screening of the documentary Intangible Asset No. 82. In the film, director Emma Franz follows Simon Barker, an Austrailian jazz musician, on his exploration of Korean traditional folk rhythm and shamanic ritual. He meets Intangible Asset No. 82, shaman Kim Seok-Chul, and professor Kim Dong-Won, who guide advise him on the technique and roots of traditional Korean music.

Sunday, March 27
2PM with a Live Performance

Free with Museum admission  @ The Museum of the Moving Image

Director Jang Jin’s study of power and decision-making takes place largely in the executive kitchens of three Korean presidents. This Capra-esque film was a crowd favorite at The Korea Society/Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) series, Yeonghwa: Korean Film Today.

Thusday, February 24
6 PM 


The Korea Economic Institute of America
1800 K Street NW, Suite 1010
Washington, DC 20006

The Korea Society and BAMcinématek salute the wildly eclectic Kim Ji-woon—a director whose body of work has included comic horror (The Quiet Family), satiric drama (The Foul King), classic horror (A Tale of Two Sisters), action thriller (A Bittersweet Life), the Western (The Good, The Bad, and The Weird), and the crime thriller with his latest, I Saw The Devil. Director Kim will be on hand for a discussion of his most recent work after the February 25th screening.

Friday, February 25 through Wednesday, March 2

BAM Rose Cinema
30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn
From midtown, trains 2, 3, 4, 5, B, Q to Atlantic Ave or D, M, N, R to Pacific Street 
 
Tickets: $12 at the box office or online.