The festival will take place from 20 - 30 October
The London East Asia Film Festival (LEAFF) has announced its 2016 programme and it looks like it’s going to be a great one.
The festival will open on 20 October at Leicester Square’s iconic ODEON cinema with South Korea’s Academy Award submission Age of Shadows. LEAFF will run for 11 days from 20 to 30 October, closing with Johnnie To’s Three at Ham Yard Hotel Cinema.
The festival is in its second year, introducing its ‘1st edition’, building upon last year’s ‘0th edition’. This year, the festival promises to bring a much wider, eclectic and diverse programme to London, which will include 40 films from South Korea, Japan, China, Hong Kong, and Southeast Asia.
Venues will include the iconic Odeon Leicester Square, Curzon Soho, Picturehouse Central, ICA, BFI, Regent Street Cinema as well as local cinemas – Hackney Picturehouse and the Ritzy in Brixton.
There will also be five strands that will run throughout the festival: Official Selection, Competition, Retrospective, Stories of Women, and Film Festival Focus. Each section has been curated by Festival Director Hyejung Jeon, Festival Advisor Roger Garcia (Hong Kong International Film Festival), Ji-seok Kim (Busan International Film Festival) and Programme Consultant Chanel Kong (Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival).
The programme is as follows:
Thursday 20th October
19:30 – AGE OF SHADOWS (ODEON Leicester Sq, sc1) | Q&A | Official Selection
Friday 21st October
18:30 – THE HANDMAIDEN (Picturehouse Central, sc1) | Q&A | PCW Retrospective
Saturday 22nd October
10:00 – GREAT PATRIOTEERS (ICA Cinema, sc1) | Film Festival Focus
13:30 – BAFTA talk w/ PCW & NIGHT FISHING (BFI, sc1) | Q&A | PCW Retrospective
15:30 – GOSANJA (Curzon Soho, sc1) | Q&A | Official Selection
18:00 – SYMPATHY FOR MR VENGEANCE, OLD BOY, LADY VENGEANCE (Picturehouse Central, sc2) | INTRO | PCW Retrospective
Sunday 23rd October
10:00 – CURTAIN CALL (ICA Cinema, sc1) | Film Festival Focus
15:30 – TUNNEL (Curzon Soho, sc3) | Q&A | Official Selection
18:00 – GOODBYE SINGLE (Curzon Soho, sc3) | Q&A | Official Selection 20:30 – CREEPY (Curzon Soho, sc1) | Q&A | Official Selection
Monday 24th October
14:00 – NFTS seminar w/ PCW | PCW Retrospective
18:30 – BEAUTIFUL 2016 (Curzon Soho, sc1) | Official Selection
20:30 – HARMONIUM (Curzon Soho, sc3) | UK PREM | Official Selection
Tuesday 25th October
18:30 – A YELLOW BIRD (Curzon Soho, sc3) | Q&A | Competition 20:30 – MIDNIGHT DINER (Curzon Soho, sc3) | Q&A | Special Spotlight
Wednesday 26th October
18:30 – THE WORLD OF US (Regent Street Cinema) | Q&A | Competition | Stories of Women 18:30 – STOKER + DAY TRIP (Hackney Picturehouse, sc3) | PCW Retrospective
20:30 – BY THE TIME IT GETS DARK (Regent Street Cinema) | Stories of Women
Thursday 27th October
18:30 – HEE (Regent Street Cinema) | Q&A | Stories of Women
20:30 – SPIRIT’S HOMECOMING (Regent Street Cinema) | Q&A in association with PAWA | Stories of Women
Friday 28th October
15:30 – KARAOKE CRAZIES (Curzon Soho, sc1/3) | Q&A | Competition
18:30 – JOINT SECURITY AREA (Ritzy Picturehouse, sc2) | PCW Retrospective
Saturday 29th October
10:00 – BREATHING UNDERWATER (ICA Cinema, sc1) | Film Festival Focus 15:00 – NESSUN DORMA (Curzon Soho, sc3) | Offical Selection
15:30 – SPIRIT’S HOMECOMING (Sheffield Showroom) | Q&A | Stories of Women 18:30 – THIRST + JUDGEMENT (Ritzy Picturehouse, sc2) | PCW Retrospective
Sunday 30th October
10:00 – THE LAUNDRYMAN (ICA Cinema, sc1) | Competition
13:00 – PEKAK (Curzon Soho, sc3) | Offical Selection
15:30 – BANGKOK NITES (Curzon Soho, sc3) | Official Selection
18:30 – I’M A CYBORG + BITTER SWEET SEOUL (Hackney Picturehouse, sc3) | PCW Retrospective
19:00 – THREE (Ham Yard Hotel) | Q&A | Official Selection
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