Korean Film Festival in Australia 2022

Overview

If you only know two things about South Korea's film and television industry, then you likely know that it's been responsible for Parasite and Squid Game over the past couple of years. The nation's big- and small-screen output spans much further than that, of course — and, since 2010, Australia has boasted a film festival dedicated to its cinematic prowess.

That'd be the Korean Film Festival in Australia, which returns to Brisbane's Elizabeth Picture Theatre from Thursday, September 8–Sunday, September 11 with eight titles that showcase Korean filmmaking's finest. And while that lineup mightn't be huge numbers-wise, it's still filled with impressive talents and must-sees, starting with opening-night pick Special Delivery, a crime-action film from Park Dae-min that stars Parasite's Park So-dam.

Also on the lineup: mystery Hommage, which again features a Parasite alum — this time Lee Jeong-eun — and charts the searching for missing footage from one of the first feature films directed by a South Korean woman; and In Our Prime, with Oldboy's Choi Min-sik as a North Korean defector and mathematical genius working as a school security guard.

Or, there's The Roundup with Train to Busan's Don Lee as a cop chasing a killer — and Spiritwalker, about a man who loses his memory and wakes up in a different body every 12 hours. Yes, the list goes on.