Burning

When Jongsu unexpectedly bumps into childhood friend, Haemi, a romance soon starts to bloom. About to leave for a trip to Africa, Haemi asks Jongsu to look after her elusive cat but when she returns, she isn’t alone – she has met a mysteriously wealthy and charismatic young man named Ben. As every encounter raises more and more questions, tensions escalate and Jongsu soon suspects Ben’s intentions may not be what they seem.

FRI 1, 7.45PM
INTRODUCTION
Dr Chi-Yun Shin, Principal Lecturer in Film Studies at Sheffield Hallam University, will introduce this screening. Dr Shin co-edited New Korean Cinema (Edinburgh University Press, 2005), and is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema and East Asian Journal of Popular Culture