Two weeks of screenings across BFI Southbank, ICA, and Cine Lumière feature 13 Korean titles, including the opening omnibus.

The Korean Cultural Centre in the UK opened the 20th London Korean Film Festival with a ceremony at the BFI Southbank on November 5. Over the next two weeks, through November 18, 13 Korean films will be screened at BFI Southbank, ICA, and Cine Lumière. The opening film is the omnibus Someone Beyond the Foggy Window, set in Seochon, which premiered here and sold out all 450 seats. Director Kim Jong-kwan attended and said he hopes this small, sincere film will start in London and reach more audiences. Lead actor Yeon Woo-jin added that he is happy to greet UK audiences with this project after growing up watching British cinema and television. In Cinema Now, which highlights new Korean cinema, the films Commission, The Information Agent, and Morning Sea Seagulls are featured. In the Women’s Films section, Hongi, The Lifesaver, and The Merrill Street Project are shown, and in the Special Screening, Kang Hyung-cheol’s Hi Five will be presented. A Liberation 80th anniversary special program, co-hosted with the Korean Film Archive, will screen Hero, A Good Man, a Bad Man, and a Strange Man, and Break the Chains. The festival closes with Woo Min-ho’s Harbin.