London Korean Film Festival to Open with MICROHABITAT

The London Korean Film Festival will be back next month with a bumper program featuring over 50 titles. Opening this year’s LKFF on November 1 will be JEON Go-woon’s festival hit Microhabitat (2017) while Malene CHOI’s Danish-Korean co-production The Return ha...

Sydney Stages ‘Off-Mainstream’ Contemporary Korean Cinema Spotlight

Tony Rayns Curates ‘Korea on the Verge: Social Faultlines in Korean Cinema’ Program For its 63rd edition, which kicked on June 8th, the Sydney International Film Festival is staging a ‘Korea on the Verge: Social Faultlines in Korean Cinema’ program, curated b...

Top Honors for HILL OF FREEDOM at 34th Korean Film Critics Association Awards

CHOI Min-sik and CHUN Woo-hee Take Home Acting PrizesWinners for the 34th Korean Film Critics Association Awards, which will be held on November 13th in Seoul’s Art Nine theater, were announced on November 3rd. HONG Sang-soo’s Hill of Freedom was revealed as t...

Blooming in Jeonju - JIFF Unveils Lineup for 15th Edition

Amid the blooming cherry blossoms of Yeoido in Seoul, the Jeonju International Film Festival (JIFF) held the press conference for its 15th edition in the IFC Mall’s CGV Theater. 181 films from 46 countries will screen in Jeonju over 10 days in May, which will ...

STATELESS THINGS Director’s New Film Begins Production

KIM Kyung-mook Returns with THIS IS OUR END KIM Kyung-mook, who has received local and international acclaim for his film Stateless Things, is set to return with his latest feature This Is Our End (working title). The investor and distributor behind the film,...

Korean Films Introduced in Canada

16th Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival Kicks off On November 7th, the 16th Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival (TRAIFF) held a press conference at the Marriott hotel to showcase three Korean feature films in their program. Co-hosted b...

Exciting Start to the Paris Korean Film Festival!

Tickets sold out at the online box office on Fnac website! After the 7th Korean Film Festival in Paris (Festival du Film Coréen à Paris, FFCP) started sales of tickets at the on-line booking service website (www.fnacspectacles.com), it took only 3 days that ...

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 competing for major awards at international film fests

Korean films at international film festivals. There have been many news reports about Korean films that were invited to film festivals overseas this past July and August. KIM Ki-duk's Pieta has been invited to the competition section at the Venice Intern...

<Stateless Things> shown in competition at New Horizons

Director KIM Kyung-mook’s <Stateless Things>, which follows the interweaving tales of two young men who live on society’s margins, recently screened in International Competition at Poland’s 12th New Horizons International Film Festival, which closed on...