The SEOUL International Women’s Film Festival (SIWFF) returns for its 19th edition for a 7-day run on June 1st in the Sinchon Megabox. 106 films hailing from 37 nations will be screened. This year’s event will kick off with a screening of the Polish film Spoor from director Agnieszka Holland, which debuted at the Berlin International Film Festival this year, where it won the Alfred Bauer Prize. Th...
50th Anniversary of Normalization of Korea-Japan Ties, MADAME FREEDOM and THE FLOWER IN HELL The National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo (MOMAT) National Film Center is featuring ‘Korean Cinema 1934–1959: Its Foundation and Burgeoning’ to mark the 50th anniversary of the Treaty on Basic Relations Between Japan and the Republic of Korea. This special screening is showing 27 Korean classical films from...