Yim Soonrye Retrospective
Cinema of Contemplation and Ecofeminism

 

Program: 

Wednesday, February 11, 2026, 10:00- Capitol Dahlem - OmU

친구 Three Friends (1996) 1 hour 32 minutes

 

Three young men face the university entrance exams upon which their economic and social fates depend. Kim Tae-Moo is a comic book artist whose art is plagiarized even as he's humiliated at school, at work, and then in the army. Cho Sein, plagued by a drunken father, wants to be a hairdresser and is the victim of gay bashing and chicken hawks. The overweight, phlegmatic, and cowardly Kong Seungho lives to eat and watch videos. The film dramatizes their friendship, their family lives, and the crushing reality of the limited opportunities Korean society offers them.

 

Cast: Kim Hyun-sung, Hee-suk Jung, Lee Jang-won

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Thursday, February 12, 2026, 10:00 - Capitol Dahlem - OmU

와이키키 브라더스 Waikiki Brothers (2001) 1 hour 49 minutes

 

Members of a traveling cover band going nowhere deal with the bitterness of growing up.

 

Cast: Lee Eol, Park Won-sang, Hwang Jung-min

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Friday, February 13, 2026, 10:00 - Capitol Dahlem - OmU

리틀 포레스트 Little Forest (2018) 1 hour 43 minutes

 

After failing an exam, Hae-won leaves the city and returns to her family home in a farming village. Her single mother had abruptly left one day without letting her know why beforehand and where she had gone to, leaving behind a letter that she refused to read. Although she intended to stay a short time, she begins to settle into her surroundings, making use of her home's bountiful land, helping her aunt work her farm, and creating delicious meals with the recipes she learned from her mother. She reunites with her two childhood friends and their bonds are renewed. What was at first to be a short stay becomes a year, with the passing of the seasons and harvesting of the land. Her mother had once described their home and land as a "Little Forest" and she begins to comprehend why. Hae-won finally reads her mother's letter and understands the reason she had left.

 

Cast: Kim Tae-ri, Jin Ki-joo, Ryu Jun-yeol

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