Among the films currently showing in Daejeon at the moment are below. Click on the films title to read more about the film and view a trailer.
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A Guide to What's On in the Korean City of Daejeon
This documentary follows five young stuntmen from their audition tapes (in which we see them mocked by their teachers) all the way through stunt school (where they take quick breaks to spit up their own teeth in the sink during classroom work) we then follow them out into the world and onto the sets of some of Korea’s most famous movies. And that’s when things get really bad.
Director: Jeong Byeong-gil
Country: Korea
Year: 2008
Runtime: 110 mins
Cinema: Daejeon Art Cinema [1st - 15th September]
Trailer: Action Boys
Before deciding to register entering the university abroad, Soo-yeon who wants to be a musician faces the objection of her family who ignores her dream. She tries to find a way to make her dream come true, but the chance is not on her side. Finally, she challenges to a musician contest with her old friend, Dong-ho who is the only one trusts in her.
Director: Lee Seung-yeong
Country: Korea
Runtime: 106 mins
Year: 2007
Cinema: Daejeon Art Cinema
Trailer: Nowhere to Turn
A young girl, Megan (Elisabeth Harnois) , heads away with her friends for the weekend after the suicide of her twin sister. However, Megan begins to receive disturbances which she believes to be caused by her deceased twin and sets out to uncover the truth.
Director: Daniel Myrick
Country: USA
Runtime: 87 mins
Trailer: Solstice
Adapted from the memoirs and research of Adolf Burger, "The Counterfeiters" ("Die Fälscher") reveals a new side to the Holocaust: the Nazis as petty crooks. Throughout the Second World War, the Nazis schemed to flood other nations' economies with counterfeit cash, and they turned to career criminals and talented prisoners to do their dirty work for them. These Jews, working out of concentration camps, falsified millions of British pound notes and would later turn their attention to the American hundred dollar bill. (Stalling tactics and bad timing left this portion of the scheme a failure.) "Operation Bernhard," as it was called, produced what are considered the finest counterfeits to ever find their way into circulation; the prisoners would also falsify passports, documents, stamps, and whatever else the SS demanded.
Director: Stefan Ruzowitzky
Country: Austria
Year: 2007
Runtime: 98 mins
Cinema: Daejeon Art Cinema [23rd to 31st August]
Trailer: The Counterfeiters
Retired widower Ali (Tuncel Kurtiz)sees a solution to his loneliness when hemeets prostitute Yeter (Nursel Köse), andhe proposes that his fellow Turkish nativelive with him in exchange for a low rent.At first Ali’s German Professor son Nejat(Baki Davrak) seems disapproving abouthis father’s choice, but the young profes-sor quickly grows fond of kind Yeter, es-pecially upon discovering most of herhard-earned money is sent home toTurkey for her daughter’s universitystudies.
The accidental death of Yeter further distances father and son, both emotionally and physically.Nejat then decides to travel to Istanbul to begin an organized search for Yeter’s daughter Ayten(Nurgül Yes¸Ilçay). He decides to stay in Turkey and trades places with the owner of a Germanbookstore who goes home to Germany. What Nejat doesn’t know is that 20-something politicalactivist Ayten is already in Germany, having fled the Turkish police.Alone and penniless, Ayten is befriended by German student Lotte (Patrycia Ziolkowska), who isimmediately seduced by the young Turkish woman’s charms and political situation. Lotte invitesrebellious Ayten to stay in her home, a gesture not particularly pleasing to her conservative mo-ther Susanne. However Ayten ends up arrested and confined for months while awaiting politicalasylum. When her plea is denied, Ayten is deported and imprisoned in Turkey.Passionate Lotte decides to abandon everything to help Ayten and as the story develops shemeets Nejat.
Director: Fatih Akın
Country: Germany / Turkey
Year: 2007
Runtime: 122 mins
Cinema: Daejeon Art Cinema [23rd to 31st of August]
Trailer: The Edge of Heaven
Cannibal! The Musical is a student film directed by future creator of South Park, Trey Parker, while studying at the University of Colorado at Boulder. A black comedy, it is loosely based on the true story of Alferd Packer and the sordid details of the trip from Utah to Colorado that left his five fellow travellers dead and partially eaten. Trey Parker stars as Alferd Packer, with Parker's frequent collaborators Matt Stone and Dian Bachar and others playing the supporting roles.Trey Parker stars as Alferd Packer, with Parker's frequent collaborators Matt Stone and Dian Bachar and others playing the supporting roles.
Director: Trey Parker
Country: USA
Year: 1996
Runtime: 95 mins
Cinema: Daejeon Art Cinema
Trailer: Canibal! The Musical
Director: Michael Herz & Lloyd Kaufman
Country: USA
Year: 1985
Runtime: 87 mins
Cinema: Daejeon Art House
Trailer: The Toxic Avenger
In a distant, but not so unrealistic future, where mankind has abandoned earth because it has become covered with trash from products sold by the powerful multi-national Buy N Large corporation, WALL-E, a garbage collecting robot has been left to clean up the mess. Mesmerized with trinkets of earth's history and show tunes, WALL-E is alone on Earth except for a sprightly pet cockroach. One day, Eve, a sleek (and dangerous) reconnaissance robot, is sent to earth to find proof that life is once again sustainable.
Director: Andrew Stanton
Runtime: 98 mins
Country: USA
Trailer: WALL-E