K-Cinema comes to Bahrain at annual Korean film festival

By Habib Toumi

Manama: A film festival bringing four of the best and most exciting movies produced by South Korea and covering different periods and styles will be launched next month in Manama.

The free admission screenings are expected to be a big hit among Bahraini and international viewers as movies by Korea, a country that celebrates a century of cinematic production, are, alongside TV series, increasingly popular outside the Korean Peninsula

The “2019 Korea Movie Weeks” festival, in its sixth consecutive year, will screen the first movie on Thursday December 5 and will continue its regular schedule every Wednesday of the month of December.

The annual film festival will celebrate again another group of cinema finery, opening with the Action – Comedy fame “Extreme Job”, where a narcotics team work takes an unexpected turn when hidden talents in culinary are revealed in the team’s biggest mission, the Korean embassy said.

“Extreme Job” is the first movie seen by more than 10 million viewers in Korea in 2019.

On December 11, the action – thriller, “Train to Busan”, will be screened. It tells the story of father and a daughter battling for life against zombies on a train trip to Busan. “Train to Busan” is another box office hit that has attracted more than 10 million viewers in Korea in its release year.

The third show movie will be “Keys to the heart” starring the international fame Lee Byung-hun in a comical drama of two brothers, one inflected with autism, uniting to find the right tunes for brotherhood.

The fourth movie will have the historical comedy “Detective K: Secret of the Lost Island”. An adventurous journey set in the 19th year of King Jeongjo’s reign of a detective and his sidekick investigating a deadly counterfeiting ring threatening the Joseon dynasty.

In May, South Korean cinema made history when director Bong Joon-ho’s social satire “Parasite won the Cannes Film Festival’s top award, the Palme d’Or. It was the first time ever a Korean film wins the Palme.