9th - 22nd September
|Reclaim The Frame Partner Cinemas
Past Lives
This September, #ReclaimTheFrame with Celine Song’s vivd and tender feature debut, PAST LIVES! We’ll be celebrating the film’s release with a host of events, including special guests, TBA..


Time & Location
9th - 22nd September
Reclaim The Frame Partner Cinemas
About the event
In Cinemas 7 September
Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are torn apart after Nora’s family emigrates from South Korea. Twelve years later, Nora, now a playwriting student in New York, reconnects with Hae Sung online; they begin talking frequently, and even imagine a reunion. But another dozen years pass before they finally meet over a few fateful days in New York.
An aching, deeply romantic debut feature from playwright Celine Song (Endlings), Past Lives is a love story — indeed, several — told across three moments in time. Song’s artful aesthetic and profound character writing, and the spellbinding performances she draws from Greta Lee, Teo Yoo, and John Magaro, explore love, identity, and “In Yun,” a Korean notion of fate stemming from two people’s connection in a past life.
- Lewes, Depot - Saturday 9 September, 17:45 + Intro by teacher, journalist & writer, Stephanie Lam
- Chapter Cinema, Cardiff - Sunday 10 September, 13:40 + Post-screening writer's workshop by author and educator, Sophie Buchaillard
- Hyde Park Picturehouse, Leeds - Wednesday 20 September, 18:30 + Intro by writer, editor, journalist and curator, Désirée Reynolds
- Exeter Phoenix - Friday 22 September, 17:30 + Post-screening writer's workshop by writer Tash Lay
PAST LIVES will be presented with Descriptive Subtitles (SDH) and Audio Description (AD).
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