ALONERS Competing for Cyclo d’Or at Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema

Hong Sungeun’s debut film Aloners is competing for the Cyclo d’Or at this year’s Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema in their Narrative Competition. It is the first Korean film to be invited to Vesoul’s main competition since Sub-zero Wind (2018...

The Closet, Awarded the Silver Raven at the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival

At the 39th Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival (BIFFF), Director Kim Kwangbin’s <The Closet> won the Silver Raven, the second prize of the International Competition. A panel of judges in the International Competition Section led by Mike Mend...

BONG Joon-ho Selected as Jury President for Venice International Film Festival

PARASITE (2019) director BONG Joon-ho has been invited to preside over the international competition jury of this year’s Venice International Film Festival. He is the first figure from the Korean film industry to be selected as jury president. The longest-runn...

Controversial Director KIM Ki-duk Dies from COVID Complications

Two years after leaving Korea when a number of serious allegations of rape and other sexual misconduct were levelled against him, the controversial and award-winning filmmaker KIM Ki-duk met with an ignominious end in a Latvian hospital, where he succumbed to ...

THE WOMAN WHO RAN Makes Off with Best Screenplay Prize in Bucharest

The Woman Who Ran, the 24th film from HONG Sang-soo, has netted the director the Best Screenplay prize at the recently concluded Bucharest International Film Festival. HONG’s film received the prize during the closing ceremony of the festival’s 16th edition, w...

THE WOMAN WHO RAN Selected for NYFF Main Slate

Acclaimed director HONG Sang-soo will participate in the 58th New York Film Festival with his latest film The Woman Who Ran, which has been invited to NYFF’s main slate. The film, his 24th, is already his 11th to be invited to the event. The Woman Who Ran debu...

NIGHT IN PARADISE to Debut at Venice International Film Festival

Though the Cannes Film Festival was forced to forgo staging an offline event this year, the Venice International Film Festival is set to return to the Lido in September and it will be bringing a new Korean film with it. Making his Venice debut will be Director...

CHOI Hee-seo Teams Up with Joe ODAGIRI and IKEMATSU Sosuke for ANGEL OF ASIA

Actress CHOI Hee-seo (aka Moon CHOI) recently teamed up with Japanese stars Joe ODAGIRI and IKEMATSU Sosuke for the film Angel of Asia (translated title). From Japanese filmmaker ISHII Yuya, the film was shot entirely in Korea over February and March of this y...

BONG Joon-ho and SONG Kang-ho Receive Orders of Cultural Merit from Government

BONG Joon-ho and SONG Kang-ho, the director and star combo of critical hit Parasite, have received Orders of Cultural Merit from the Korean government. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism awarded the Eungwan Order of Cultural Merit to BONG, which is th...

Neon to Unleash PARASITE in North America on October 11

This year’s Palme d’Or winner PARASITE, the first ever Korean film to pick up the world’s top film festival award, has fixed its North American release date. Distributor NEON will launch the film in America on October 11, thereby opening up the possibility of ...