New Delhi Korean Film Festival, Invitation to inner consciousness
Korean Cultural Centre India celebrates 10th Anniversary with
New Delhi Korean Film Festival, Invitation to inner consciousness
Forming a Korean-themed street, experiencing Korean culture,
Image of light and water & dreaming, mise-en-scène in red-blue-purple colors
Korean Cultural Centre India announced that they will hold the New Delhi Korean Film Festival to commemorate the 10th Anniversary of opening of the culture centre.
The New Delhi Korean Film Festival will be held from 11th November (Friday) till 13th November (Sunday) at the PVR Priya in Vasant Vihar, New Delhi. The festival is the first ever Korean Film Festival to be conducted in New Delhi, and the audiences will be able to enjoy 10 films during the event.
During 3 day Korean Film Festival, New Delhi Priya shopping complex street where the cinema is located will form a Korean-themed street, reforming an atmosphere of a Korean cultural festival. Traditional Korean red & bule color lanterns and rainwater lighting with the feel of a fall flower festival are installed, a photo zone that reflects Korean tile and grate design, hands-on events such as wearing hanbok and traditional fan & laterm making, and public relations booth with local Korean brand companies such as Orion will also be operated.
The films to be screened at the festivals were selected in a variety of ways. The programming was finalised by selecting masterpieces of representative Korean film directors and conducting a public survey through which the audience was able to select the film that they wanted to see at the festival, as well as including multiple animation titles. The audience will be able to enjoy independent and commercial films that they may have never heard of before.
The festival will start with the screening of ‘The Handmaiden’ directed by Park Chan-wook. The film focuses on the story of 4 characters with different intentions, and is a fascinating story that expresses the mixed goals, secrets, tense atmosphere where love and desire collide between these characters. The film perfectly showcases the different style of Park Chan-wook’s story telling. The audience will also be able to enjoy another excellent film by Park Chan-wook on 12th November.
Additionally, the festival will also have special screenings of ‘Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...Spring’ directed by Kim Ki-duk dipicts the visual beauty of Korea has a lot of fans in India. And for the first time in India the audience will be able to enjoy the ‘The Novelist’s film’ by Hong Sang-soo. The audience will also be able to enjoy ‘Untold Scandal’ by E J-yong that expresses the Korean traditional clothing, props, furniture, and architecture in a very delicate way.
The festival will also include Bong Joon Ho’s ‘Parasite’, Yeun Sang-ho’s ‘Train to Busan’, and Park Hoon-jung’s ‘New World’ were selected by the audience as the films that they want to see at a film festival. The festival will also feature Oh Sung-yoon’s ‘Leafie, a Hen into the Wild’ that can be considered representative work of Korean Animation, and Yeun Sang-ho’s ‘The King of Pigs’ will also be a part of the festival.
Mr. Hwang Il Yong, Director of Korean Cultural Centre India said “Focusing on the works of directors representing Korea, we have selected films that contain bold yet pictorial discourses on the world of individual thought and will, inner consciousness and unconsciousness. Based on the preposition that the most personal and most Korean thing has proven that it can gain sympathy and universality from all the world since the pandemic, this Korean film festival was also planned under the theme of exploring the inner conscious and unconscious world. The concept of creating a Korean-themed street in connection with the film festival’s planning intention also reflects the theme of invitation to inner consciousness, and the mise-en-scène with the image of light and water, dreaming and intense colors as red, blue, and purple using lanterns and rainwater lighting.”
■ New Delhi Korean Film Festival Schedule
Schedule | Film Title (Director Name) | Running Time | Note | |
Date | Time | |||
11.11(Fri) | 19:00 | The Handmaiden(Park Chan-wook) | 144min | Opening |
11.12(Sat) | 11:00 | Parasite(Bong Joon Ho) | 131min | |
13:30 | Leafie, A Hen into the Wild(Oh Sung-yoon) | 93min | ||
16:00 | Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...and Spring (Kim Ki-duk) | 106min | ||
18:30 | The King of Pigs (Yeun Sang-ho) | 96min | ||
21:00 | Thirst (Park Chan-wook) | 133min | ||
11.13(Sun) | 12:00 | Train to Busan (Yeun Sang-ho) | 118min | |
15:00 | New World (Park Hoon-jung) | 134min | ||
17:30 | The Novelist’s film (Hong Sang-soo) | 92min | ||
20:00 | Untold Scandal(E J-yong) | 120min | ||
■ New Delhi Korean Film Festival Poster
■ New Delhi Korean Film Festival Korea Street Fair Poster
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