Eye For Film >> Festivals >> LEAFF >> 2017 >> Stories Of Women

London East Asia Film Festival 2017

View other London East Asia Film Festival Films by strand: Competition, Festival Focus, Hong Kong Now and Then, Official Selection, Retrospective: Japanese Cinema

Jane (Country: South Korea; Year: 2016; Director: Cho Hyun-hoon; Writer: Cho Hyun-hoon; Stars: Gyo-hwan Koo, Joo-Young Lee, Min-ji Lee)
A young girl feels isolated by attitudes to gender.
The Receptionist (Country: UK, Taiwan; Year: 2016; Director: Jenny Lu; Writer: Jenny Lu, Yi-Wen Yeh; Stars: Josh Whitehouse, Lorraine Stanley, Teresa Daley, Tebraiz Shahzad, Nicola Wright, Daniel York, Eric Colvin, Shiang-chyi Chen, Joseph Tremain, Sophie Gopsill, Tom Bonington, Klemens Koehring, Grant Murphy, Shuang Teng, Aidan Creegan)
Story of a woman working as a receptionist in an illegal massage parlour.
Small Talk (Ri Chang Dui Hua) (Country: Taiwan; Year: 2016; Director: Hui-Chen Huang)
Drama about a mother and daughter relationship.
The Table (Deo Te-I-Beul) (Country: South Korea; Year: 2016; Director: Kim Jong-kwan; Writer: Kim Jong-kwan; Stars: Soo-jung Lim, Yu-mi Jung, Ye-ri Han, Eun-chae Jung)
Women come and go around a table.
News

59th New York Film Festival early bird highlights Futura, Jane By Charlotte, James Baldwin: From Another Place and The Velvet Underground

More news and features

Playing Now
Festival Image

Eye For Film continues to support festivals both locally and across the world. At the moment, we're covering:

Abertoir

DOC NYC
New York's celebration of factual film

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
One of the largest film gatherings in northern Europe

French Film Festival
The UK's longest running celebration of Francophone cinema

London Korean Film Festival

In the Archive
Competition Picture


Archive of festival coverage.

Daily diary and reviews from 2005-2018.

Coverage of the lynchpin German festival.