CLEAN UP and SAVAGE Earn Top Busan Film Fest Awards

Korean social drama Clean Up, a feature presentation of the Korean Academy of Film Arts (KAFA) from debut director KWON Man-gi, and Chinese thriller Savage by CUI Si Wei have picked up the New Currents Awards from this year’s 23rd Busan International Film Fest...

BEAUTIFUL DAYS Selected to Open 23rd BIFF

Popular star LEE Na-young’s return to the screen, the North Korea-themed indie drama Beautiful Days, has been set as the opening film of next month’s 23rd Busan International Film Festival. During press conferences held in Busan and Seoul on September 5th, LEE...

Christoph Terhechte, head of Berlinale’s Forum Section, Receives Korean Cinema Award

The 22nd Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) announced the recipient of its Korean Cinema Award. “BIFF has selected Christoph Terhechte, the head of the Berlin International Film Festival’s Forum section, as the recipient of this year’s Korean Cinema Awar...

Korean Documentary Exhibition Held in Spain

4 Korean Non-fiction Works Including FACTORY COMPLEXScreened For the first time, the Centro Cultural Coreano of Madrid offered an Exhibition of Korean Documentary in collaboration with the Film Archive of the capital. The event took place over May 14th to 22n...

WEEKENDS Picks Up 3rd Panorama Prize in Berlin

Documentary Follows Experiences of Korea’s 1st Gay Chorus One of three Korean films that screened at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival, LEE Dong-ha’s debut documentary WEEKENDS triumphed by festival’s end, as it left Berlin with the 3rd place Panora...

Busan Critics Grand Prize for RIGHT NOW, WRONG THEN

YOO Hae-jin and KIM Min-hee Take Acting Honors Earlier this month, HONG Sang-soo’s Right Now, Wrong Then was awarded the Grand Prize at the 16th Busan Film Critics Awards. KIM Min-hee, who featured in HONG’s film, took home the Best Actress Prize, while veter...

HAN GONG-JU Tops Wildflower Film Awards

HONG Sang-soo and PARK Chan-kyong Among Winners The 2nd Wildflower Film Awards Korea finished with yet another trophy in HAN Gong-ju actress CHUN Woo-hee’s hands. The celebration of independent Korean films and filmmakers, which aims to bring underrated works...

Possibilities of Asian Documentaries

Proved at the Docs Port Incheon 2014 Current Status of Korean Documentaries Receiving Global AttentionThere is something unusual about Korean documentaries. So far, documentaries have been unnoticed even at film festivals just because they are not profitable,...

A DREAM OF IRON and A GIRL AT MY DOOR Screening in Chicago

Invited to 50th Edition of Chicago International Film Festival For its half centenary anniversary, the Chicago International Film Festival invited a pair of acclaimed Korean films. Debuting earlier this year at the Berlin International Film Festival and in th...

TIFF 2014 closing report, City to City program

Spotlight on 8 Korean films This year, the biggest film festival in North America placed a special importance on Korea. Korean Film Council (KOFIC) joined the celebration as Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) selected films from Seoul to showcase thro...