10 MINUTES and NIGHT FLIGHT to Screen in Hong Kong

JUNG Woo-sung and KANG Je-gyu Shorts Also Invited A total of five Korean films have been invited to the upcoming 38th Hong Kong International Film Festival, which will take place from March 24th to April 7th. Following their screenings in Berlin earlier this ...

NIGHT FLIGHT and SNOWPIERCER Hold Screenings at Berlin

LEESONG Hee-il’s Night Flight and BONG Joon Ho’s Snowpiercer received rave reviews at the 64th Berlin International Film Festival. The third invite for LEESONG Hee-il following No Regret and White Night, Night Flight (Ya-gan-bi-haeng) held its world premiere o...

NIGHT FLIGHT Takes Off in Berlin

Just one year after screening his film White Night (2012) in the Berlin International Film Festival’s Panorama section, director LEESONG Hee-il is returning to the German fest’s same program with his latest film Night Flight. LEESONG’s latest work is described...

MoMA Screening Korean Quintet in August

New York Readies for ‘Summer of Korean Film’ If Korean film fans in New York weren’t already spoilt enough as news broke that the New York Asian Film Festival (NYAFF) would be screening 17 Korean features and shorts in June and July, now the Museum of Modern...

4th Asia Queer Film Festival to Open in Japan

LEESONG Hee-il’s Trilogy Chosen as Closing Film The 4th Asia Queer Film Festival is to be held for six days from May 24th at Cinemart in Japan’s Roppongi. The film focuses on Asian queerfilms and 27 films will be screened in 12 different programs. Korean fil...

LEESONG Hee-il’s Trilogy to Screen at London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival

WHITE NIGHT, GOING SOUTH and SUDDENLY, LAST SUMMER Selected for Fest The 27th London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival has taken a shine to Korea’s preeminent queer filmmaker LEESONG Hee-il as it has been revealed that his three films from last year, which for...

PLUTO Awarded Special Mention at Berlinale

SHIN Su-won’s Latest Triumphs in Generations Section A Korean film has won yet another award on the festival circuit in early 2013 as SHIN Su-won’s Pluto, which premiered at the 17th Busan International Film Festival, has picked up a special mention from the ...

Berlin Invites PLUTO to Generation Section

Fourth Korean Film Selected for Berlin Film Festival Next February’s Berlin International Film Festival is taking shape as a major discovery grounds for Korean cinema as a fourth Korean film has been invited to the prestigious event. SHIN Su-won’s Pluto, one...

LEESONG Hee-il’s 3-Part Queer Series

▶ WHITE NIGHTMan Who Has to Leave & Man Who Has to Let Go ◆ InformationDirector LEESONG Hee-il | Casting WON Tae-hee, LEE Yi-kyung | Genre Queer Melo | Running time 75 min | Rated R | Release Nov. 15 ◆ Synopsis Left Korea two years ago a hurtful memory, ...

WHITE NIGHT to Screen at Berlin International Film Festival

WHITE NIGHT, Invited to the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival White Night, LEESONG Hee-il's new film released in 2012 was officially invited to the Panorama section of the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival. This is the second time that LEESON...