The Fantasia International Film Festival has revealed its third wave of programming to complete its program announcements for this year’s 22nd edition. The Montreal-based genre film festival has invited 24 films from Korea, including 15 feature films and 9 shorts. Featuring in this years’ ‘Cheval Noir’ competition will be PARK Hoon-jung’s latest film The Witch: Part 1. The Subversion. Having its i...

The 12th Festival du Film Coréen à Paris (FFCP) came to a close with a screening of director HUH Jung’s horror film, The Mimic. “We had 14,000 festival attendees this year, which is the most we’ve had so far.” a festival executive reported. In addition, it was announced that UM Tae-hwa’s fantasy dramaVANISHING TIME: A BOY WHO RETURNEDwon the festival’s Audience Award. VANISHING TIME: A BOY WHO RET...

The Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia is leaning particularly heavily on Korean films this year, with 14 titles peppered throughout its 2016 program, including 13 features and one short. Five Korean films will compete in the festival’s signature Official Fantastic Competition. Big names will be featured in the competition lineup, including NA Hong-jin, with THE WAILING, PAR...

The internationally renowned Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival will for the first time stage a retrospective on the works of a Korean film school. A section dedicated to the works of the Korean Academy of Film Arts (KAFA) will examine both the past and present of Korean filmmaking. The section will be broken down into two sections: "Old Boys" (OB) and "Young Boys" (YB). The “Old...

Two shorts from the Korean Academy of Film Arts (KAFA), KIM Hyo-mi’s White Silence and KIM Ji-hyeon’s Throttled will be competing in Graduation films section at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival this year. Joining them will be KIM Jin-a’s Report About Death, also a university graduation short. Two years after winning the Best Short Film award at the event, JEONG Da-hee is set to re...