The 13th edition of the Paris Korean Film Festival (FFCP) will open its doors on October 30 and run until November 6. This year’s FFCP will open with the Chuseok smash The Great Battle before being brought to a close with the youth drama Sunset in My Hometown. From director KIM Kwang-sik and staring ZO In-sung, period siege action-drama The Great Battle is currently the second most successful Kore...

The London Korean Film Festival will be back next month with a bumper program featuring over 50 titles. Opening this year’s LKFF on November 1 will be JEON Go-woon’s festival hit Microhabitat (2017) while Malene CHOI’s Danish-Korean co-production The Return has been set as the closing film. This year’s event will run until November 14 in London before going on a UK tour until November 25. The main...

Four Korean films are among the lineup of this month’s 42nd Hong Kong International Film Festival, which kicks off on March 19 and runs until April 4. The Korean lineup at HKIFF includes Hong Sangsoo’s Grass, KIM Dae-hwan’s The First Lap (2017), SHIN Dong-seok’s Last Child (2017) and PARK Ki-yong’s Old Love (2017). Featuring in the ‘Young Cinema Competition’ section will be SHIN Dong-seok’s debut ...

The Korean Film Council (KOFIC - Chairman, OH Seok Geun) hosted its ‘Korean Film Night’ event during the 68th Berlin International Film Festival at the Korean Culture Center in Berlin at 8pm on Monday, February 19. The event was put on to celebrate the Korean films invited to this year’s Berlinale and to promote exchanges between Korean filmmakers and film professionals from around the world. The ...