By Kim Hyelin
Video = Korean Cultural Center in Buenos Aires

Han Cine, a Korean film festival and a leading Hallyu (Korean Wave) event in Argentina, will be held offline for the first time in three years.

The Korean Cultural Center (KCC) in Buenos Aires from Sept. 1-7 will hold the ninth annual festival at the movie theater Cinemark Palermo.

The event will be held offline for the first time in three years after being hosted online in 2020 and last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The true-life thriller "Escape from Mogadishu" will be screened at the opening ceremony on Sept. 1 at 7:30 p.m.

The KCC will show 12 movies in the festival, 10 of which were released within the past three years including "Special Delivery," "Spiritwalker," "The Roundup" and "Perhaps Love" as well as two indie works that won awards at film festivals abroad.

Tickets can be reserved on the Cinemark website: www.cinemarkhoyts.com.ar.

To mark the ninth festival and the 60th anniversary of bilateral ties, the KCC also offers the e-book "Korean Cinema and its History in Argentina" (unofficial English-language title). Based on reviews and analyses by film producers, programmers and film critics, it delves into the experience of the bilateral cooperation process through film.

The e-book can be downloaded from the KCC website: argentina.korean-culture.org/ko.

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