printable version'Beyond Borders': Three Korean films to be screened at festival
Three contemporary Korean films will be screened at Cubberley Auditorium Feb. 9-11, as part of the fourth San Francisco Korean American Film Festival, jointly sponsored by the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (APARC) at Stanford and by Korea Studies in Media Arts (KIMA), a nonprofit organization at San Francisco State University.
The festival will include a conference, "Globalization and Contemporary Korean Cinema," from 3 to 5 p.m. Friday, Feb. 10, in the Okimoto Room in Encina Hall. The festival, scheduled Feb. 7-12, also will include more than 30 film screenings in San Francisco. (Full schedule information is available at http://www.mykima.org.) Stanford is co-sponsoring the festival for the first time this year, said Hee-Sun Kim, a Korean Language Program lecturer and one of the festival co-organizers.
The festival theme is "Beyond Borders: Demystifying the Korean Image Through Media Arts." Film selections examine topics including the division between North and South Korea and its effect on Koreans and Korean Americans, festival organizers said.
Films to be presented on campus include Murder, Take One (Feb. 9, 7 p.m.), Duelist (Feb. 10, 7 p.m.) and Taegukgi: The Brotherhood of War (Feb. 11, 5 p.m.). All three are subtitled in English. The films' directors will participate in discussions following screenings on Feb. 10 and Feb. 11.