Korean Film 100 Years: Women’s Faces in Korean Cinema
- Opening Film
- International Feature Competition
- Korean Feature Competition
- Asian Shorts Competition
- I-Teens Competition
- New Currents
- Polemics: Sexual Politics of 'Room'
- Special Screening of Polish Women's Cinema
- Memorial Screening for Agnès Varda & Barbara Hammer
- Queer Rainbow
- Korean Film 100 Years: Women’s Faces in Korean Cinema
- 30th Anniversary of Parituh: the First Korean Women Filmmakers' Collective
- 10th Anniversary of Pitch&Catch
- Documentary Ock Rang Award Film
- Barrier Free Screening
- Feminist Activism Workshop
Since the inception of SIWFF in 1997, the festival has supported feminist films by championing Korean female directors at home and abroad. To celebrate Korean film 100 years SIWFF shines a light on the faces of female filmmakers who have helped to shape the industry. Modern Korean history has gone through often overlapping tumultuous periods of colonization, modernization, the cold war, dictatorships, and the start of neoliberalism. Some women refused to be confined by patriarchal oppression and masculine narratives, and crossed multiple boundaries. Such women include Ae-sun in Sweet Dream (Lullaby of Death), victims of Japanese sex slavery in The Murmuring, and Hojung in A Good Lawyer’s Wife. In the course of history, they were criticized as either indecent or flirtatious. Nevertheless, the women refused to kowtow to such accusations and stood tall before the camera in all their complexity. The eight films in the program reveal the various faces of women and looking at their brave and determined expressions, audiences will gain a new perspective on female figures in Korean film. The program is coorganized by the Korean Film Council and the Committee for Korean Film 100 Years and is sponsored by the Korean Film Archive.
BAE Juyeon / Programmer
BAE Juyeon / Programmer
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