Under the pretext of carrying out research for her new scenario, director Ga-young plays the lead in Hit the Night as a filmmaker, and interviews a man she’s been wanting to get to know. Asking him to consider her a friend, she begins to draw out details of his sexual fantasies and relationship status, and her real intentions for the meeting slowly become clear.
 
Set in a bar, where time is marked by glasses of gin, Hit the Night is a feminist exploration of attraction, challenging the ‘rules’ and expectations of heteronormative desire, while also raising very current questions about the blurring of professional and personal boundaries. With hints of The Before Trilogy by Richard Linklater, this film is driven by dialogue that lasts all evening, meandering through intellectual and sexual topics, personality traits and childhood memories. A self-reflexive thread about films and the filmmaking process adds a postmodern flourish.

This screening coincides with the 2018 London Korean Film Festival and is followed by a Q&A with the director hosted by film programmer and writer Sophie Brown.