The Korean Cultural Centre(KCC) would like to invite you all to the documentary film festival hosted by the KCC and the DMZ International Documentary Film Festival from June 8th to June 11th at the just renovated Ottawa Art Gallery(OAG) and the KCC Multipurpose Hall. 

Director Jin Mo-young will attend the opening screening with his recent film <Old Marine Boy> and the screening of his previous film <My Love, Don't Cross that River>. It could be a great chance to meet the director in person in Ottawa.

*Please RSVP (mandatory): seats are limited.

Please be advised that you may not be allowed to enter if you do not RSVP.

Click RSVP for reservation.

Inquiry: canada@korea.kr or 613-233-8008

About movies:

Old Marine Boy

JIN Mo-young / Korea / 2017 /86min

In 2006, Myongho crossed the border with his family with nothing from North Korea. In South, he becomes a deep-sea diver at the border village between South and North Korea. He wears 60 kg diving suitm inly relying on a single oxygen line from the boat, and fish 30 meters down underwater. If the line goes wrong, he could die in any minute. Myongho once crossed the most dangerous borderline, now he constantly crosses the line between life and death. This film will be the portrait of a courageous man who fights with the life for his family.

My Love, Don’t Cross That River

JIN Mo-young / Korea / 2014 /86min

There is this couple that lived for 75 years together, and the husband and wife are now about to reach 100 and 90 years old, respectively. Despite the long years, the couple is still dear to each other. Their dear and devoted attitude to each other seems like the model for life companions. The only thing that bothers is the law of nature0death. After the husband dies, the wife sits at the snow-layered grave and weeps sadly. By appearing repeatedly in the opening and ending, this scene is this documentary’s highlight moment that presents the theme of this film.

Family in the Bulbble

MA Min-Ji / Korea / 2017 /77min

My parents were real estate developers and dealers in the 1980s. They were able to realize the ‘middle class dream’ thanks to the development boom. But after the Asian financial crisis, everything is vanished. One day, the landlord told to move out cause our Apt will soon be reconstructed as a studio. However, my parents are far from being worried about finding a new place to live; they’re still waiting for a jackpot.

Myeoneuri: My Son’s Crazy Wife 

SUN Ho-bin / Korea / 2017 /77min

The film poses questions about the deep-rooted “conflicts between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law” in the Korean society by the story of the director’s mother and sift. Or, this film is an ‘Emile documentary packed with the agony of the director himsef,’ according to the director. Eventually, the director is in the state of double hardships in the film. One is the existential pain coming from the double position of being both a son and a husband, and another is the aesthetic pain coming from the double status of being both the director and a protagonist.

Far East Devotion -Love Letters From Pyongyang

CHO Sung-hyung / Germany / 2015 / 96min

During the Korean War, North Korea sent young students to East Germany, one of the friendly countries to North Korea. The purpose of sending the students was the training of talented people who would rebuild the country after the war. The historical change of the time nor the heavy pressure from the government could not stop them from falling in love with female German students who looked at them with curious eyes. Then, they were summoned to North Korean in the early 1960s, losing the chance to meet their beloved women.

Thank you for your interest in this event.