“Dirty Money” (left) and “Daechi Scandal” (right)
Australia’s Korean Film Festival (Coffia) is back in its 2025 edition, bringing 10 new Korean films to Sydney this August, and then visiting the roads for a regional tour that spans six cities across the country.
The festival will be held at the event Cinema George Street from August 21st to 26th, and will feature a mix of drama, thrillers, romance and comedy. Four directors and one actor will also join Sydney Leg for post-screening Q&A.
As in the past few years, the touring program will continue to feature free screenings from mid-September to mid-October at Benara, Toowoomba, Parramatta, Alice Springs, Victor Harbor and Whitsun Day. Four selected titles in each city will be screened, including the festival’s opening match.
“This year’s program is one of the most diverse and exciting programs ever,” said Koffia programmer Francis Lee. “From heartwarming to cheerful to thrilling bids, each story reflects the vibrancy of Korean films today. We are particularly proud to expand our touring programme in 2025.
The festival opens with Hear Me: Our Summer
The festival opens by filling the communication gap through Korean sign language, with Hear Me: a romantic drama about delivery workers falling on our summer deaf swimmers. Hongkyung, Roh Yoon-Seo and one member of former IZ*, Kim Minju, starring in his film debut, is a Korean remake of the 2009 Taiwanese film Hear Me.
The film will also be screened as part of a free tour program.
Sydney-only screening includes thrillers, romances and restored classics
In Sydney, screening is only done in Sydney. This includes a thriller set in the world of classical music starring Sung-Heon and Oscar Winner Cho Yeo-Jeong (Parasite).
Additionally, the screening is as follows:
Dacie Scandal, a melodramatic romance starring as a Korean tutor navigating love and career with dirty money in Seoul’s education department, a smooth crime thriller about three corrupt cops on the head: Unprocessed melody, Time Lulomanth Korean Waves with 4k presentation attached with Exo’s Dao Kyung So (Day)
Free Tour Program Title
In addition to hearing my summer, our summer will feature three other titles.
About Family, Lee Seung Gi, a generational comedy drama starring Kim Yoon Seok and Lee Seung Gi, is a quirky comedy with Park Ji Hyun and Choi Si Won (Super Junior)’s noisy apartment complex, and a mystery comedy about a tenant who investigates the strange sound of her building with the help of a grand neighbour.
Free screenings will be held at local venues between September and October.
Q&A with special guests
The Sydney screenings will be screened after Q&A screenings by directors Joe Sung-ho (I Hear Me: Our Summer), Kim Dae-woo (Hidden Face), Yang Woo-seok (About Family), Lee Luda and actor Ga-young Soo-jin (The Noisy Mansion).
Information about tickets for the Sydney Festival and free touring programmes is available at www.koffia.com.au.
“Forbidden Fairy Tales”
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