The London East Asia Film Festival (LEAFF) will be partnering for the very first time with ‘The Cinema at Selfridges' for LEAFF 2020.
This beautiful, boutique screen will be the perfect setting for the ‘Special Focus' strand, showing five handpicked titles from the 11-13th December.
To celebrate the 5th edition of the festival, the team have carefully chosen five unique titles from across East Asia. They are:
Light For the Youth, by Shin Su-won, Korea
Seyeon, a manager at a call centre, faces a crisis at work after her 19-year-old trainee June disappears. Seyeon's daughter, Mi-rae, struggles with a job interview and the expectations of her mother. Later, Seyeon begins to receive suspicious messages from June.
I WeirDo, by Liao Ming-yi, Taiwan
Intensely obsessive-compulsive and highly phobic of germs, Po-Ching lives a very precisely scheduled but lonely life. That is until he encounters Chen Ching, a young woman whose condition is comparable to his own. Things seem as perfect as an imperfect pair could hope for, until one day when Po-Ching awakes to find his OCD has vanished.
Beauty Water, by Cho Kyung-hun, Korea
Ye-ji discovers a mysterious water cosmetic that enables her to lose weight and reshape her appearance to how she's always dreamt of looking. But Ye-ji soon discovers that the more she desires to be beautiful, the more her life is in danger.
Twilight's Kiss (Suk Suk), by Ray Yeung, Hong Kong
One day Pak, a taxi driver who refuses to retire, meets Hoi, a retired single father, in a park. Despite years of societal and personal pressure, they are proud of the families they have created through hard work and determination. Yet in that initial brief encounter, something is unleashed in them both that has been suppressed for so many years.
Wild Sparrow, by Li Shih, Taiwan
The impending closure of his school forces 12-year-old Han to leave behind his grandmother's idyllic mountain home and relocate to Taipei to live with his estranged mother, Li. But life in the city is fraught with adversity- especially for Li, who, after being spurned by her lover, takes a series of degrading nightclub jobs to support herself and her son.
You can book your tickets directly from The Cinema at Selfridges website here
