MADONNA Receives Top Marks from Cannes Critics

SHIN Su-won and SEO Young-hee Return to the Croisette Following the positive reception granted to The Shameless earlier during the Cannes Film Festival, Korea’s other Un Certain Regard competitor in 2015, SHIN Su-won’s third feature Madonna, bowed on May 20th...

Charles Tesson to Receive BIFF's Korean Cinema Award

Cannes Critics' Week Artistic Director to be Honored at the 18th BIFF Every year, the Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) selects a special recipient to be honored with the Korean Cinema Award. This year, the honor will go to Charles Tesson, a noted ...

Palme d’Or Triumph for Korean Short SAFE

Prosperous Second Appearance at Cannes for MOON Byoung-gon The illustrious Cannes Film Festival wound to a close last night (May 26th) issuing out its coveted awards that have had pundits guessing throughout the fest’s 12-day run. Korea, despite having no fe...

6th CINDI Film Fest line-up packed with international art house fare

Conceived as a venue for films that push the boundaries of film form and format as well as content, the 6th edition of the Cinema Digital Seoul Film Festival (CinDi) is set to run from August 22-28, 2012. Festivities will commence with <Night Across the St...

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...

<CIRCLE LINE> wins big at Cannes Critics’ Week

Director SHIN Su-won’s short film CIRCLE LINE took home the CANAL+ Prize at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. The prize is awarded to the best short film screened during the festival’s Critics’ Week competition and comes with EUR €6000 (approx. USD $7500) in supp...