Film Screening:

26 Years
(Jo Geun-hyeon, 2012, 135 min, S. Korea, in Korean w/ English subtitles, Color, DVD)

-- Introduced by Prof. Hae-Young Kim (AMES)!

 26 years ago, during the Gwangju Democratization Movement, state troops were ordered to open fire on civilians in the city of Gwangju who were demonstrating as apart of a democratic movement. Thousands of civilians were killed and the massacre is considered one of the most tragic events in South Korean history. Now five victims - a shooter from the national team, a gang member, a policeman, a CEO from a large company, and a director of a private security outfit - get involved in a top-secret project in order to convict the person responsible.
 

"Daring and powerful, 26 Years is one of Korean Cinema's most direct confrontations with its traumatic history. The film grabs you from the outset and never lets you go: propelled by bold revisionism and its harnessing of a nation's outrage."
-- ModernKoreanCinema.com

Cost: Free and open to the public.

Sponsors: The Asian/Pacific Studies Institute (APSI), the Program in the Arts of the Moving Image (AMI), and the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (AMES). Screening made possible by the generous permission of Chungeorahm Film (Seoul, South Korea).