The Hungary Korean Film will be held from September 4 to 10 in the Corvin Cinema in Budapest, Hungary. The festival, which is celebrating its 13th anniversary this year, will open with the film that was the most talked-about title in Korea last year, LEE Byoung-heon’s Extreme Job. The Hungary Korean Film Festival started modestly in 2008, when it was called Korean Cinema Week, but has grown into t...

The new Korean thriller Beast Clawing at Straws from debut director KIM Yong-hoon will have its world premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in the Tiger Competition. Centering around a Louis Vuitton bag filled with cash, the film stars JEON Do-yeon (Secret Sunshine, 2007), JUNG Woo-sung (Asura: The City of Madness, 2016) and BAE Sung-woo (The King, 2017), among many others. It is s...

The Vietnamese film Rom from director TRAN Thanh Huy and Mohanad HAYA’s Iraqi picture Haifa Street came away with this year’s New Currents prizes, from the signature competition at the Busan International Film Festival. A special mention was reserved for Just Like That, an Indian film from director Kislay KISLAY. The Actor & Actress of the Year awards both went to the Korean film The Education...