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- ALONERS Competing for Cyclo d’Or at Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema
- Hong Sungeun’s debut film Aloners is competing for the Cyclo d’Or at this year’s Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema in their Narrative Competition. It is the first Korean film to be invited to Vesoul’s main competition since Sub-zero Wind (2018) in 2019.Aloners, which stars Gong Seun...
- by Pierce Conran / Feb 08, 2022
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- HEAVEN: TO THE LAND OF HAPPINESS to Open 26th Busan Film Festival
- BIFF Announces New Currents and Vision ProgramsAhead of its official unveiling later this month, the Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) has started revealing several sections of its upcoming 26th edition, such as the New Currents and Korean Cinema Today-Vision programs, as well as this year’s ...
- by Pierce Conran / Sep 06, 2021
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- THE REMNANTS Tops 6th Wildflower Film Awards Korea
- The documentary The Remnants (2016) from directors KIM Il-ran and LEE Hyuk-sang, which chronicles the aftermath of the Yongsan Tragedy of 2009, has earned the Grand Prize at this year’s 6th edition of the Wildflower Film Awards Korea, which was held at the Seoul Literature House on the slopes of Nam...
- by Pierce Conran / Apr 22, 2019
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- AFTER MY DEATH and LAST CHILD Lead Wildflower Nominees
- The Wildflower Film Awards Korea are returning for their 6th edition next month, once again to be held at the Literature House Seoul on Namsan Mountain in the heart of the Korean capital. This year’s top nominees are KIM Ui-seok’s After My Death (2018) and SHIN Dong-seok’s Last Child (2018), which r...
- by Pierce Conran / Mar 15, 2019
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- SUB-ZERO WIND Competes for Vesoul’s Cyclo d’Or
- The Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinemas kicked off its 25th edition on February 5 and is featuring four films from Korea this year. KIM Yuri’s debut work Sub-Zero Wind (2017) is screening in competition while three classics spanning from the 1960s to 2001 are featured in other progra...
- by Pierce Conran / Feb 10, 2019
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- Martine and Jean-Marc Thérouanne to Receive BIFF Korean Cinema Award
- Martine and Jean-Marc Thérouanne, the co-founders of the Festival International des Cinémas d’Asie (Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinemas), will receive this year’s Korean Cinema Award at the Busan International Film Festival (BIFF), awarded for their contribution to the promotion of K...
- by Pierce Conran / Sep 17, 2018
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- Mirovision Finds Buyers in Cannes
- Korean film sales outfit Mirovision was busy during the ‘Marché du Film’ in Cannes, where they struck several deals for films in their current lineup. Among their slate of titles were Colors of Winds (2017), a Japanese fantasy by My Sassy Girl (2001) director KWAK Jae-yong which debuted at the Buche...
- by Pierce Conran / May 25, 2018
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- MOTHERS Picks Up NETPAC Prize in Vesoul
- LEE Dong-eun’s sophomore drama Mothers picked up the NETPAC Award at the recently concluded Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema in France. Featuring A Tale of Two Sisters (2003) and The Table (2017) star LIM Soo-jung, Mothers (2017) tells of a young widow who agrees to let her decease...
- by Pierce Conran / Feb 19, 2018
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- MOTHERS and A TIGER IN WINTER to Compete in Vesoul
- CLAIRE’S CAMERA also Books Screenings in France The Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema will be back for its 24th edition on January 30. Three Korean films, LEE Dong-eun’s Mothers, LEE Kwang-kuk’s A Tiger in Winter and HONG Sangsoo’s Claire’s Camera, are invited to the festival this y...
- by Pierce Conran / Jan 30, 2018
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- E J-yong Takes in THE BIG PICTURE with Mirovision
- Following last year’s critical indie hit The Bacchus Lady, director E J-yong has set his next project, which will be a Korean remake of the French thriller L’homme qui voulait vivre sa vie (‘The Man Who Wanted to Live His Life’), based on the novel ‘The Big Picture' by author Douglas Kennedy. Th...
- by Pierce Conran / Nov 10, 2017