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World Premiere, Korean Cinema Today: Panorama, 2025

Time of Cinema

극장의 시간들

Director LEE Jongpil, YOON Ga-eun

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What is cinema? What does the theater mean to us? The omnibus film Time of Cinema, composed of two shorts, explores diverse ways in which films, theaters, and audiences form relationships. Director Lee Jongpil’s Chimpanzee uses anecdotes about chimpanzees as a medium to transcend, in a surreal manner, the boundaries between inside and outside the film, between audience and creator. A line from the film—“What remains are not the stories, but the times we shared”—captures its essence more precisely than any description could. Director Yoon Ga-eun’s Naturally observes a film set where children are the protagonists. “Can you act in front of the camera as if it were not there?” When asked, the children respond with a flurry of answers. Their earnest discussions about how reality differs from the screen leave audiences with unexpected questions to ponder. This is a modest yet profound work of meta-cinema that captures not simply the theater as a place, but the flow of time exchanged between film and audience.

Programme note by SONG Kyung-won

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Screenings3

Fri, 09/19

16:3017:57

LOTTE CINEMA Centum City 5

136Guest Q&ASubtitles unknown

Sat, 09/20

17:0018:27

Busan Cinema Center Cinematheque

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Sun, 09/21

17:0018:02

LOTTE CINEMA Centum City 10

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Film details

Director: LEE Jongpil, YOON Ga-eun
Original title: 극장의 시간들
Country/Region: Korea
Year: 2025
Length: 62min
Section: Korean Cinema Today: Panorama
Edition: Busan International Film Festival 2025, No. 30
Original language: Korean
Premiere: World Premiere
Format: DCP, Color and black and white
Selection: Official selection
Elsewhere: Festival page Letterboxd IMDb Wikidata TMDB Douban

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LEE Jongpil

YOON Ga-eun

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Director: LEE Jongpil, YOON Ga-eun
Producer: Jeongju JE
Cast: Daemyeung KIM, KO Asung, Wonstein, Sookyung LEE, Xabin HONG, Meaningful Stone
Cinematography: Jongsun KIM, Youngjik JO
Editing: Seyoung PARK, Ganghee LEE
Music: Minhwi LEE
Production company: Tcast
World sales: Finecut Co.¸ Ltd.

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