Born in 1992, Kim Sein graduated from the Drama and Film School of Sungkyul University and the Korean Academy of Film Arts (KAFA). She first directed the shorts <Submarine Sickness> (2014) and <Hamster> (2016), the latter of which was invited to the Jeonju International Film Festival and the Mise-en-Scene Short Film Festival, among others. <Container> (2018), another short, won the Jury Prize at the Seoul Independent Film Festival (SIFF). Her debut feature &...More
Born in 1992, Kim Sein graduated from the Drama and Film School of Sungkyul University and the Korean Academy of Film Arts (KAFA). She first directed the shorts <Submarine Sickness> (2014) and <Hamster> (2016), the latter of which was invited to the Jeonju International Film Festival and the Mise-en-Scene Short Film Festival, among others. <Container> (2018), another short, won the Jury Prize at the Seoul Independent Film Festival (SIFF). Her debut feature <The Apartment with Two Women> (2021), produced as part of the KAFA Feature Film Program, was first presented at the Busan International Film Festival where it won five prizes, including the New Currents Awards and NETPAC Award. It was later selected for the Panorama section of the Berlinale. Less
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Invitation to the international film festivals continues for the films of the Korean Academy of Film Arts (KAFA)’s 14th feature film production program. KAFA's two films, The Apartment with Two Women and Thunderbird, have been invited to the Competition section at the 24th Udine Far East Film Festival, which opens on April 22 (local time).Kim Sein’s directorial debut, The Apartment with Two Wo...
The Novelist's Film(2021)Seven Korean films are heading for Berlin. The 72nd Berlin International Film Festival unveiled the lineup of invited films on January 19 (local time). According to the news, Director Hong Sangsoo's new film <The Novelist's Film> has been invited to the Competition section along with the new films directed by François Ozon and Claire Denis, respectively. ...
A pair of Korean co-productions supported by the Jeonju Cinema Project, Dane Komljen’s Afterwater and Éric Baudelaire's A Flower in the Mouth, have been invited to screen at the upcoming 72nd Berlin International Film Festival. Both titles are among the first ten films revealed for this year’s Forum program at Berlinale, a section that focuses on experimental works.
Afterwater, a co-pr...
The Korean Film Council (KOFIC) has started to revive the Korean film industry, which has suffered from COVID-19 for 3 years. Since April, KOFIC has been implementing the 'Human Resources Support Project for Film Production to Overcome COVID-19' to create jobs in the domestic film festival industry and revitalize film production. The project supports the labor cost of 1,000 employees for u...
From April 16th 2018, films from students of the Korean Academy of Film Arts (KAFA) is available online. Last year, through a collaboration with Busan International Film Festival (BIFF), the online screening platform offered 33 films from the festival's selection. This Year, The Korean Film Council (KOFIC) unveils 16 excellent films selected by KAFAon its official website (screening.koreanfilm...