These are six films you shouldn’t miss at the 9th Korean Film Festival Canada which will take place in cinemas and online from May 26 – 28, 2022

20-22 OMEGA invites us on a pure cinematic odyssey into contemporary civilization with a profound look at the humanity of the Anthropocene, the Earth epoch forged by humankind. Shot over 5 years across 100 locations, with exclusive access to popular as well as restricted places, evocative images document and reveal multiple environments, activities, events and behaviors of the postmodern human. In symphony with the images, cathedral organ music, choir songs and “Inuit throat singing” come together to create a hypnotic operatic soundtrack, standing in for speech.  (KFFC 2022)

Screening Date:
May 28, 2022 | Saturday | McCord Museum (Montreal) | 3:35 pm (Buy Tickets Here)

Trailer:

A mystery comedy film that unfolds through the eyes of a catfish! The discovery of X-ray photographs of sexual intercourse causes trouble at a hospital. The administration is more interested in who might be in the X-rays than who took them. A nurse, YEO Yoon-young, is writing her resignation letter because she thinks it might be her, but when she arrives at the hospital, no one else is there except the deputy. While this hospital commotion is going on, strange sinkholes start to appear in Seoul. Young laborers, including Yoon-young’s boyfriend, are mobilized to fill them. (KFFC 2022)

Screening Date:
May 28, 2022 | Saturday | McCord Museum (Montreal) | 5:50 pm (Buy Tickets Here)

Trailer:

Trapped in a dark room, surrounded by unknown noise and horror, KIM Youn-jeong meets with GoYuHan Sun and Violet J, and hears their stories. The three diverging notes join each other and merge into a single melody. (KFFC 2022)

Screening Date:
May 28th, 2022 | Saturday | McCord Museum (Montreal) | 1:00 pm (Buy Tickets Here)

Trailer:

Yong, a TV producer, receives a demand by his boss to blur the nipples of a celebrity who wasn’t wearing a bra on camera. (KFFC 2022)

Screening Date:
May 28th, 2022 | Saturday | McCord Museum (Montreal) | 1:00 pm (Buy Tickets Here)

Trailer:

A documentary on the women’s labour movement highly praised by director BONG Joon-Ho. (KFFC 2022)

Screening Date:
May 26, 2022 | Thursday | McCord Museum (Montreal) | 7:20 pm (Buy Tickets Here)

Trailer:

On one fine day in Osaka, Yong-hi invites her Japanese fiancé to her mother’s house. When her father was alive, he never allowed her to meet a Japanese man, but now, her mother has happily prepared the traditional chicken soup that’s only served to sons-in-law in Korea. Though shocked by the photos of KIM Il-Sung on the wall, her fiancé says: “Our ideologies are different, but let’s enjoy this soup.” (KFFC 2022)

Screening Date:
May 27, 2022 | Friday | McCord Museum (Montreal) | 6:00 pm (Buy Tickets Here)

For more information, please visit: https://www.koreanfilm.ca/

Image Source:
20-22 Omega – IMDB
May JEJU Day – Mubi
Sewing Sisters – Mubi