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- 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 Festival. The New Currents jury, led by KIM ...
- by Pierce Conran / Oct 16, 2018
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- 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 Yong-kwan and Jay JEON, the recently re...
- by Pierce Conran / Sep 17, 2018
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- 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 Award” the festival released in a statement ...
- by SONG Soon-jin / Sep 06, 2017
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- 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 22nd. In order for local citizens to gain ...
- by Pierce Conran / May 25, 2016
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- 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 Panorama Audience Award Panorama Dokumente 201...
- by Pierce Conran / Feb 22, 2016
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- 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 veteran actor YOO Hae-jin was given the Best ...
- by Pierce Conran / Dec 16, 2015
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- 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 to global attention, held its ceremony ...
- by June Kim / Apr 10, 2015
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- 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, but they are getting ready to fly high....
- by KIM Su-yeon / Nov 10, 2014
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- 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 the Cannes Film Festival’s Un Certain Rega...
- by Pierce Conran / Oct 13, 2014
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- 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 through its City to City program at its 39th...
- by Kim June / Sep 23, 2014