JEON Kyu-hwan Triumphs Again

THE WEIGHT Wins Best Director at India Film Fest Following a Best Director win last week at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, JEON Kyu-hwan has once again struck gold (or rather silver) as his new feature The Weight earned him a Silver Peacock award fo...

FATAL Invited to Berlin International Film Festival

FATAL, invited to the Panorama section of the Berlin International Film Festival LEE Don-ku’s Fatal received an invitation from Berlin. Fatal, which was released for the first time at the ‘New Currents’ section of the 17th Busan International Film Festival (...

Not ‘Movies’ but ‘Yeonghwa’

Korean Cinema showcased at MoMA The Museum of Modern Art(MoMA), a world-renowned establishment for modern art, will screen 12 Korean films. The title of the event is ‘Yeonghwa: Korean Film Today’ and it will begin on the 19th September until the 30th at the ...

Korean films take over Fantasia, Osian’s-Cinefan

With at least a dozen selections currently screening at each festival, Korean cinema figures prominently in the line-ups at Montreal’s 16th Fantasia International Film Festival and New Dehli’s 12th Osian’s-Cinefan Festival of Indian, Asian and Arab Cinema. Fan...

Korean films in the Hong Kong film festival

The 36th Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF) has announced their line-up to include five feature-length films from Korea - <Choked>, <Stateless Things>, <Moving>, <From Seoul to Varanasi> and <The Day He Arrives>. HKIF...

Berlinale Culinary Cinema has Hindsight

The 62nd Berlin International Film Festival (the Berlinale) has announced its Culinary Cinema 2012 program comprised of 15 films about food to include <Hindsight>from Korea. The 6th Culinary Cinema’s motto this year is “Trust in Taste”. Directed by LEE...

<Varanasi> and <My Way> to go to Berlin Panorama

The 62nd Berlin International Film Festival has announced early selections for the Panorama section to include two Korean films - JEON Kyu-hwan’s<From Seoul to Varanasi> and KANG Je-kyu’s<My Way>.   Shot on location in India and Korea, <Fr...