Welcome to the Hot Docs screening schedule, where you can browse all of the films in this year’s festival.
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Dir(s): Ulrike Ottinger
Program: Special Presentations
Run Time: 82 | Germany | Language: (Subtitled in English) English German Korean
View the trailer for Korean Wedding Chest on the Hot Docs YouTube channel
According to tradition, a Korean groom offers an elaborate wedding chest to his bride's parents. Dressed in traditional garb, he carries its meticulously layered treasures, each one prescribed by centuries-old custom, strapped to his back all the way to their door. Venerable filmmaker Ulrike Ottinger delicately unpacks the ornate rituals and complex mores of the Korean wedding rite. While clearly reverent of the past, Korea also has a pervasive modern wedding industry, which amplifies the drive for everything to be picture perfect, down to the last highly codified detail. The traditional Pe Baek ceremony, which sees the newly married couple receive their parents, is now awkwardly, and rather hilariously, run by wedding assistants who physically lift relatives into position. Like a polite guest, however, Ottinger never interrupts, allowing her poetic images to speak for themselves as old and new Korea marry in this fascinating cultural portrait. Myrocia Watamaniuk.
Director(s) : Ulrike Ottinger
Producer(s) : Ulrike Ottinger
Cinematographer(s) : Ulrike Ottinger, Lee Sun-Young
Editor(s) : Bettina Blickwede
Composers(s) : Kim So-Young
Korean Wedding Chest deals with the following subjects: Korean Culture & Issues, Love and Marriage
Korean Wedding Chest will be presented at the following times and locations.
| Time | Films | Venue | Tickets | Calendar |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7:15 pm Fri, May 1 |
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| 3:30 pm Sun, May 3 |
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The following titles are in the Special Presentations category along with Korean Wedding Chest.
People who added Korean Wedding Chest to their My Hot Docs calendar also added the following films.
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For screenings that have sold out in advance, a limited number of rush tickets may be available at the screening venue’s box office ten minutes before the screening time, subject to availability.
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