HIFF.ORG ASIAN SHOWCASE: SPOTLIGHT ON KOREA PRESENTED BY KBFD-TV
NOMINATED FEATURE DIRECTOR AND CAST IN ATTENDANCE
POETRY
SHI HAWAII PREMIERE
saTURDay, OCTObER 23 | 6:45 Pm | REgal DOlE sUnDay, OCTObER 24 | 5:00 Pm | REgal DOlE sOUTh KOREa 2010 | KOREan W/ EnglIsh sUbTITlEs | 139 m
DIRECTOR: Changdong Lee sCREEnWRITER: Changdong Lee PRODUCERs: Joondong Lee CInEmaTOgRaPhER: Hyunseok Kim CasT: Junghee Yun, David Lee, Hira Kim
Veteran actor Jung-hee Yun shines in the role of Mija, a beautiful woman in her sixties who moves gracefully through life, contemplating a trivial daily routine that is ill-suited to her refined persona. With elegance and a dash of eccentricity, Mija takes care of her ungrateful grandson, Wook (David Lee), and makes a living by cleaning house for an elderly man who, though paralyzed by a stroke, still responds to her charm with bouts of drug-induced arousal.
On a whim, Mija enrolls in a poetry class at the local cultural centre and begins a personal quest to find the perfect words to describe her feelings. However, she’s plagued by the onset of alzheimer’s disease, and struggles with new vocabulary and the challenges of the creative process. When her world is turned upside down by her grandson’s implication in a monstrous crime, it is Mija’s unique and touching poetry that allows her to defy the weight of shame and distance herself from a painful proximity to violence. POETRY follows Lee’s acclaimed SECRET SUNSHINE by expanding upon the filmmaker’s dissection of disturbing realities, searching for beauty where it is seldom found. —TIFF
WOOCHI HAWAII PREMIERE
ThURsDay, OCTObER 14 | 6:00 Pm | REgal DOlE sUnDay, OCTObER 24 | 11:00 am | REgal DOlE sOUTh KOREa 2010 | KOREan W/ EnglIsh sUbTITlEs | 136 m
DIRECTOR: Dong-hoon Choi sCREEnWRITER: Dong-hoon Choi PRODUCERs: Eugene Lee CInEmaTOgRaPhER: Young-hwan Choi CasT: Dong-won Gang, Yoon-suk Kim, Soo-jeong Lim, Hae-jin Yoo
If Jeon Woochi can vanquish the goblins, recapture both halves of the broken flute, find the bronze dagger and the mirror, evade the demigods that would trap him in a painting and feel out his attractions for the enigmatic Su-Jeong Lim, then he has passed the intricate gauntlet that director and writer Dong-hun Choi has thrown down before him. WOOCHI involves an undisciplined, talented Taoist trickster, Woochi, who has been derailed from his search for the implements that will make him the most powerful wizard ever.
Centuries ago some bumbling demigods erred in their attempt to secure the world from goblins. Now, in a plot that spans pre-modern times into a contemporary Korea, Woochi and his sidekick, a charmed dog-man named Chorangyi, must make their way against formidable wizards and shape- shifting demons in a coerced attempt to save the world. With WOOCHI, Choi has brilliantly executed a breathless action plot that still finds time for coy asides and smart humor– a must-see. —Bianca Isaki
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