The 2022 Korean Film Festival is back at SM Cinemas from August 11 to 14. A total of seven films released in 2020 and 2021 during the pandemic will be screened in five SM Cinemas in Metro Manila: SM Mall of Asia, SM Megamall, SM City North EDSA, SM City Grand Central, and SM Southmall. All screenings are for free and on a first come, first served basis.
A joint project of the Embassy of the Republic of Korea, the Korean Cultural Center in the Philippines, and SM Cinema, this year’s festival unreels at SM Aura Premier on August 10 with no less than Hong Wonchan, director of the festival’s opening film, “Deliver Us From Evil.” He will be joined by director Lee Woojung whose recent film, “Snowball,” is also included in the lineup of films for this year’s festival.
“Deliver Us From Evil” is an action/crime/drama film which follows the story of an assassin who goes to Thailand in order to solve a kidnapping case linked to him, and finds himself chased by a man whose sibling he killed.
“Snowball,” a youth-drama film by Lee Woo Jung, narrates how Kang-yi runs away from home with her friends only to find a strange side of themselves while the balance of their friendship also tips in a weird way.
Lee Woojung is a promising independent film director who started her career as an actress after studying theater and film in the university. She directed her first independent short film, “Neither to Die nor to Leave” in 2012 and has begun to get more attention through “Snowball.”
Other festival must-sees include the action-drama film “Escape from Mogadishu” by Ryu Seung-Wan, “Miracle: Letters to the President” by Lee Jang-Hoon and “The Novelist’s Film” by Hong Sang-Soo, “The Day I Died: Unclosed Case” by Park Jiwan, and comedy-romance film “Perhaps Love” by Jo Eun-Ji.
The film festival which is also in partnership with the Film Development Council of the Philippines (FDCP), Korean Film Council, Korean Tourism Organization (KTO) Manila Office.
Interested moviegoers may visit KCC’s Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, @KCCPhil to reserve slots for the opening ceremony on August 10 at SM Aura Premier Cinema 2 and for the Talk with the Filmmakers on August 11, 1:30 p.m. at the FDCP Cinematheque Centre Manila.
