A screening of the South Korean queer film '3670', a milestone work about a young North Korean defector discovering his true identity.
3670 is coming to Contact Theatre on Thursday 26 November. It's a South Korean queer film about a young North Korean defector who discovers his true identity, and it's being presented as a milestone work of South Korean queer cinema.
To get where it's coming from, it helps to look at the city it's landing in. The show is part of Manchester's LGBTQ+ scene, which centres on Canal Street — 'The Village' — one of the world's leading gay-friendly areas, made famous by the TV series Queer as Folk. The neighbourhood hosts major annual events like Manchester Village Pride, one of the biggest Pride events in the UK; Sparkle, the national transgender celebration weekend in July; and the Great British Bear Bash over the May Bank Holiday weekend.
That queer culture extends beyond the street, too. The city is home to SCENE, Manchester's LGBTQ+ film and TV festival, and the audio-visual exhibition Proud, created by Heard Storytelling. So when a South Korean queer film like 3670 comes to town, it's arriving in a city that's already well-versed in this kind of storytelling.
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It's a specific kind of story — a defector from North Korea finding his identity in South Korea — and it's playing at Contact Theatre on 26 November. If you've been following the city's queer cinema and arts scene, this is one that fits right in.
