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- BAMSEOM PIRATES Wins Wildflower Grand Prize
- JUNG Yoon-suk’s sophomore documentary Bamseom Pirates Seoul Inferno (2017) became the first ever documentary film to pick up the Grand Prize at the Wildflower Film Awards, which held their fifth edition on Thursday, April 12. A documentary following a punk band and their experiences with government ...
- by Pierce Conran / Apr 24, 2018
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- Wildflower Film Awards Announces Nominations for 5th Anniversary
- The Wildflower Film Awards Korea will return for their 5th edition on April 12. Ahead of the ceremony the organizers have announced the nominees for this year’s awards, which include a new category for Best Music. The Wildflower Awards, founded by Korean film critic Darcy Paquet and co-organized by ...
- by Pierce Conran / Apr 09, 2018
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- Göteborg Film Festival Invites Korean Quintet
- The Göteborg Film Festival will return on January 26 for its 41st edition, which will feature five films from Korea. Two among those, JEON Go-woon’s Microhabitat(2017) and the documentary Letters (2017) by Marte Vold and Jero YUN, will screen in the Ingmar Bergman Competition (for international debu...
- by Pierce Conran / Jan 15, 2018
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- BFI London Takes 4 from Korea
- A quartet of Korean films will screen at next month’s BFI London Film Festival. Hong Sangsoo returns with On the Beach at Night Alone, one of his three titles this year, while Korea will also be represented by the Korean thriller MEMOIR OF A MURDERER and two documentaries, Bamseom Pirates Seoul Infe...
- by Pierce Conran / Sep 07, 2017
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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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- Muju Film Festival Raises Curtain on 5th Edition
- On a clear evening on June 2nd, the Muju Film Festival opened the doors to its 5th edition. The opening ceremony was hosted by actors PARK Cheol-min and KIM Hye-na and featured live performances from famed singer HAN Young-ae, among others. The ceremony was followed by a screening of Reggae Inna Fil...
- by Pierce Conran / Jun 05, 2017
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- M-Line Showcases Diverse Slate in Berlin
- M-Line Distribution is having a busy European Film Market, with several reported sales for its titles coming out of Berlin. Director E.oni’s kidnap thriller MISSING, starring KONG Hyo-jin (Crush And Blush, 2008) and UHM JI-won (The Silenced, 2015), was snatched up by Klockworx for Japan, MATV for se...
- by Pierce Conran / Feb 13, 2017
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- IFFR Takes 6 Films from Korea
- New JUNG Yoon-suk Doc Premieres in Bright Future This year’s 46th International Film Festival Rotterdam will welcome six Korean films across different sections when it unspools in the Netherlands from January 25th to February 5th. Presented as a world premiere out of competition in the Bright Future...
- by Pierce Conran / Jan 06, 2017
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- 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 by guest programmer Tony Rayns, the Londo...
- by Pierce Conran / Jun 13, 2016
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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