Korea Centre

SIRP, Mahatma Gandhi University

In collaboration with

Consulate General of the Republic of Korea in Chennai

presents

Korean Film Festival 2025

September 26-27, 2025

Venue: Auditorium, School of Chemical Science

Programme

DAY 1 – 26 September 2025, Friday

09:30 AM to 10:00 AM — Inauguration

Welcome Address: Dr. Jojin V John, Director, Korea Centre

Inaugural Address: Prof. CT Aravindakumar, Vice-Chancellor, MG University

Special Remarks: Mr. Jehyoung LEE, Deputy Consul General of the Republic of Korea in Chennai

Vote of Thanks

10:00 AM – 10:15 AM – High Tea

10:15 AM: Movie Screening: Luck Key (1 hr 52 Min)

02:00 PM: Movie Screening: Book of Fish (2 hr 6 Min)

04:00 PM : Special Screening : Parasite ( 2hr 12 Min )

DAY 2 – 27 September 2025, Saturday

10:00 AM: Movie Screening: Sunset in Hometown (2 hr 3 Min)

12:30 PM: Movie Screening: Fengushi (2 hr 13 Min)

03:00 PM : Special Screening : Cobweb ( 2hr 15 Min)

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Korean Film Festival 2025

1.Luck-key (2015) (럭키/ Reokki)

Screening Time: 10:15 AM, 26 September 2025, Friday

A reverse comedy that tells the story of a perfectionist assassin who falls and hits his head in a sauna, giving him amnesia. When a down-and-out actor switches locker keys with him, they switch lives until the hit-man, who soon becomes an action hero on TV, starts to remember things

Director: Lee Gae-byok

Time: 112 min ( 1 Hr 52 Min )

2.Book of Fish (2014) (자산어보 / Jasaneobo)

Screening Time: 02:00 PM 26 September 2025, Friday

Synopsis: In 1801, after a new king ascended the throne, a scholar Jeong Yak-jeon who served the late king is exiled to Heuk-san Island. When he lands on the unknown island with fears, rather he is amazed by wonders of various sea creatures. There he meets Chang-dae, a young fisherman who is a huge admirer of Confucianism and has a wide knowledge about the sea. Fascinated by his knowledge, Jeong decides to write a book about the sea and asks Chang-dae to help him write the book, in exchange for helping Chang-dae’s study of Confucianism

Director: Lee Joon-ik

Time:126 min ( 2 Hr 6 Min)

3.Parasite (2019) (기생충/ Gisaengchung)

Screening Time: 04:00 PM 26 September 2025, Friday

Synopsis: Parasite (2019), directed by Bong Joon-ho, tells the story of the struggling Kim family, who gradually infiltrate the wealthy Park household by posing as skilled workers through deceitful means. At first, their scheme seems successful, but the discovery of a secret bunker beneath the Park house—where the former housekeeper’s husband has been secretly living—sets off a chain of tensions and violence. During a chaotic birthday party, class resentment explodes, leaving multiple deaths in its wake, including Mr. Kim fleeing into the bunker himself. The film ends with Ki-woo’s dream of buying the Park house to free his father, a poignant reminder of the near impossibility of escaping systemic poverty and inequality.

Director: Bong Joon Ho

Time:126 min ( 2 Hr 12 Min)

4.Sunset in My Hometown (2018) (변산/ Byeonsan)

Screening Time: 10:00 AM, 27 September 2025, Saturday

Synopsis: Hak-soo has challenged TV audition program for 6 years but never gets into the finalist. On the day he fails his 7th audition, he receives a call from his hometown that his father is in the hospital. He rushes to his hometown Byeon-san, only to find it his father lied to bring him to Byeon-san. He heads back to Seoul, but he is suspected as a phishing scam criminal there.

Director: Lee Joon-ik

Time: 123 Min (2 hr 3 Min)

5.Fengshui (2018) (명당/ Myeongdang)

Screening Time 12:30 PM: 27 September 2025, Saturday

Synopsis: One’s ancestors’ tomb spot could change one’s destiny. Jae-Sang (CHO Seung-Woo), a prodigal geomancer, loses his family while trying to stop the Kim family from conquering Korea by getting their hands on all the propitious tomb spots. 13 years later, Heung-Sun from a fallen royal family comes to Jae-Sang and suggests ousting the Kim family from power. The two men decide to work together, but they soon reach conflict when they learn of a tomb spot that would produce two kings in a family.

Director: Park Hee-gon

Time: 133 Min (2 Hr 13 Min)

6.Cobweb(2023) (거미집/ Geomijip)

Screening Time 04:00 PM: 27 September 2025, Saturday

Synopsis: Cobweb is a black comedy-drama set in 1970s South Korea, where director Kim, frustrated by censorship and creative limitations, becomes fixated on reshooting the ending of his latest film, also titled Cobweb. Convinced that a new finale will turn his work into a masterpiece, he drags his reluctant cast and crew into chaotic secret shoots plagued by censorship officials, skeptical producers, and on-set clashes. As the boundary between cinema and reality begins to blur, the story unfolds as a sharp satire of artistic obsession, censorship, and the absurd challenges of filmmaking under an authoritarian regime.

Director: Kim Jee-woon

Time: 133 Min (2 Hr 15 Min)