Jeonju Film Festival Announces Korean Competition

The Jeonju International Film Festival (JIFF), which will stage its 22nd edition this year from April 29 to May 8, has revealed the finalists of its Korean Competition section. Ten titles will be included in the lineup, among them eight narrative films and two...

JIFF 2021 Reveals 4 Jeonju Cinema Projects

The Jeonju International Film Festival (JIFF) has revealed this year’s lineup of Jeonju Cinema Projects, the feature length projects commissioned by JIFF which have become the festival’s signature. This year’s lineup features four titles - MIN Hwan-ki’s The Ma...

Scaled Down 25th Busan International Film Festival to Open October 21

The lineup to the 25th Busan International Film Festival was presented via an online conference on Monday, September 14. Originally scheduled for earlier October, the festival has been delayed until October 21, owing to a rise in COVID-19 cases and ask a safet...

Jeonju International Film Festival Reveals 2019 Lineup

This year’s Jeonju International Film Festival, which revealed its program earlier this month, will open with Claudio GIOVANNESI’s Italian crime drama Piranhas on May 2. The 20th edition of the festival, which will run until May 11, is set to close with Guy NA...

IM Heung-soon and HAN Kang to Participate at Carnegie International 2018

Acclaimed documentary filmmaker IM Heung-soon and internationally renowned novelist HAN Kang are set to collaborate on a project, after being invited to participate at the 2018 Carnegie International, the long-running contemporary art exhibition in North Ameri...

Florence Korean Film Fest to Stage HA Jung-woo Retrospective and Masterclass

The 16th Florence Korean Film Fest will open its doors on March 22 and screen 25 features and several shorts until it concludes on March 30. This year’s edition will also include a retrospective on films featuring popular star HA Jung-woo. HWANG Dong-hyuk will...

THE RETURN Wins Golden Zenith at Montreal World Film Festival

HEO Chul’s The Return won the Golden Zenith Award for Best First Fiction Feature Film at the 41st Montreal World Film Festival (MWFF). Based on a play of the same name, the film tells stories of regular customers who miss their loved ones, set in a bar that go...

THE ENDLESS and BEHIND THE DARK NIGHT Top 21st BiFan

The 21st edition of the Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (BiFan) held its closing ceremony on July 21st, and gave its top award to The Endless in the Bucheon Choice competition, the third indie from US filmmakers Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead, ...

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...

3rd Wildflower Film Awards Unveil Nominees

A MATTER OF INTERPRETATION, A MIDSUMMER’S FANTASIA Lead the Pack The Wildflower Film Awards Korea return for their third edition next month and this week unveiled their 2016 nominees. In total, 22 films, including 15 fiction and 7 documentary works, are up fo...