BOOK OF FISH and MOGADISHU Win 4 Prizes Each at Korean Film Critics Awards

Ryoo Seungwan Picks Up Best Director, Lee Joonik’s Film Takes Best FilmLee Joonik’s The Book of Fish and Ryoo Seungwan’s Escape from Mogadishu triumphed at the 41st Korean Film Critics Association Awards, with each picking up four prizes. Lee’s film won the Be...

BAE Sung-woo and JUNG Ga-ram Perform INVESTIGATION TRIP

Popular character actor BAE Sung-woo and rising star JUNG Ga-ram are back on set for the upcoming film Investigation Trip (translated title), which commenced shooting on June 9. The feature debut of writer-director PARK Cheol-hwan is the latest project from di...

SWING KIDS and BEAUTIFUL DAYS to Bookend Florence Korean Film Festival

The Florence Korean Film Fest 2019, which will take place from March 21st to the 29th, has revealed this year’s lineup. Opening the program will be KANG Hyoung-cheol’s Korean War-era tap dance musical war drama Swing Kids, while Jero YUN’s Beautiful Days, the ...

FEMALE TEACHER in Session with KIM Ha-neul

Commercial Debut for Director KIM Tae-yong Top star KIM Ha-neul has chosen her next film project, which will be Female Teacher (literal translation), the commercial debut of director KIM Tae-yong (not to be confused with the Late Autumn [2010] filmmaker of ...

Restricted Rating for Queer Short Overturned by Supreme Court

Successful Appeal for KIM JHO Gwang-su’s JUST FRIENDS Four years after it was originally accorded a teenager-restricted rating by the Korean Media Ratings Board (KMRB), KIMJHO Gwang-soo's short film Just Friends has just had its restrictive rating overtur...

8 Korean Projects in the Mix at NAFF

PiFan’s Industry Arm Reveals Muscular Program The Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival (PiFan) is just around the corner and along with it comes its industry arm, the Network of Asian Fantastic Films (NAFF). Each year NAFF stages a genre film pitchin...

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...

Director KIMJHO Begins to Shoot ONE NIGHT

“Nice Gifts to Queer Movie Fans” KIMJHO Gwang-soo, one of the most famous queer movie directors in Korea began to shoot a new film, One Night (working title) on April 14th. One Night is a queer romance film about one hot night of Geun-ho (YOO Min-kyu), Yong-...

Korean Films Around the World

Korean Films Praised in the U.S., France and Japan- As The Thieves break the 13 million mark and admissions go over 10 million for Masquerade, interest in Korean cinema abroad is going strong. The Korean Cultural Center in Washington D.C. will screen CHOO Chan...