BFI London Takes 4 from Korea

A quartet of Korean films will screen at next month’s BFI London Film Festival. Hong Sangsoo returns with On the Beach at Night Alone, one of his three titles this year, while Korea will also be represented by the Korean thriller MEMOIR OF A MURDERER and two d...

Christoph Terhechte, head of Berlinale’s Forum Section, Receives Korean Cinema Award

The 22nd Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) announced the recipient of its Korean Cinema Award. “BIFF has selected Christoph Terhechte, the head of the Berlin International Film Festival’s Forum section, as the recipient of this year’s Korean Cinema Awar...

IFFR Takes 6 Films from Korea

New JUNG Yoon-suk Doc Premieres in Bright Future This year’s 46th International Film Festival Rotterdam will welcome six Korean films across different sections when it unspools in the Netherlands from January 25th to February 5th. Presented as a world premiere...

Sydney Stages ‘Off-Mainstream’ Contemporary Korean Cinema Spotlight

Tony Rayns Curates ‘Korea on the Verge: Social Faultlines in Korean Cinema’ Program For its 63rd edition, which kicked on June 8th, the Sydney International Film Festival is staging a ‘Korea on the Verge: Social Faultlines in Korean Cinema’ program, curated b...

Korean Documentary Exhibition Held in Spain

4 Korean Non-fiction Works Including FACTORY COMPLEXScreened For the first time, the Centro Cultural Coreano of Madrid offered an Exhibition of Korean Documentary in collaboration with the Film Archive of the capital. The event took place over May 14th to 22n...

WEEKENDS Picks Up 3rd Panorama Prize in Berlin

Documentary Follows Experiences of Korea’s 1st Gay Chorus One of three Korean films that screened at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival, LEE Dong-ha’s debut documentary WEEKENDS triumphed by festival’s end, as it left Berlin with the 3rd place Panora...

Possibilities of Asian Documentaries

Proved at the Docs Port Incheon 2014 Current Status of Korean Documentaries Receiving Global AttentionThere is something unusual about Korean documentaries. So far, documentaries have been unnoticed even at film festivals just because they are not profitable,...

San Diego Asian Film Festival Take 7 Korean Features

San Diego Asian Film Festival (SDAFF) has, as per usual, invited a strong contingent of Korean films. What differentiates this year’s selection is the inclusion of ‘Remembering Queer Korea’, a showcase featuring four features and a pair of shorts which focus o...

Korean Films Nab 5 Awards from Sitges

Features, Animations & Docs Triumph at Catalan Film Jubilee The largest genre film event in Europe, the Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia brought its 47th edition to a close on Saturday, October 11th and five Korean films were amon...

Sitges Invites Big Korean Lineup

16 Films at Europe’s Top Genre Film Festival The Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia is no stranger to Korean film and their upcoming 47th edition proves no exception as Europe toil destination for genre cinema has invited a 16-strong de...