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- Jeonju Film Festival Announces Korean Competition
- The Jeonju International Film Festival (JIFF), which will stage its 22nd edition this year from April 29 to May 8, has revealed the finalists of its Korean Competition section. Ten titles will be included in the lineup, among them eight narrative films and two documentaries.The lineup features sever...
- by Pierce Conran / Mar 18, 2021
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- JIFF 2021 Reveals 4 Jeonju Cinema Projects
- The Jeonju International Film Festival (JIFF) has revealed this year’s lineup of Jeonju Cinema Projects, the feature length projects commissioned by JIFF which have become the festival’s signature. This year’s lineup features four titles - MIN Hwan-ki’s The Man with High Hopes and IM Heung-soon’s HU...
- by Pierce Conran / Mar 03, 2021
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- Scaled Down 25th Busan International Film Festival to Open October 21
- The lineup to the 25th Busan International Film Festival was presented via an online conference on Monday, September 14. Originally scheduled for earlier October, the festival has been delayed until October 21, owing to a rise in COVID-19 cases and ask a safety precaution in the wake of the upcoming...
- by Pierce Conran / Sep 28, 2020
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- Jeonju International Film Festival Reveals 2019 Lineup
- This year’s Jeonju International Film Festival, which revealed its program earlier this month, will open with Claudio GIOVANNESI’s Italian crime drama Piranhas on May 2. The 20th edition of the festival, which will run until May 11, is set to close with Guy NATTIV’s drama Skin from the United States...
- by Pierce Conran / Apr 22, 2019
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- IM Heung-soon and HAN Kang to Participate at Carnegie International 2018
- Acclaimed documentary filmmaker IM Heung-soon and internationally renowned novelist HAN Kang are set to collaborate on a project, after being invited to participate at the 2018 Carnegie International, the long-running contemporary art exhibition in North America. While details of the work are not ye...
- by Pierce Conran / Apr 24, 2018
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- Florence Korean Film Fest to Stage HA Jung-woo Retrospective and Masterclass
- The 16th Florence Korean Film Fest will open its doors on March 22 and screen 25 features and several shorts until it concludes on March 30. This year’s edition will also include a retrospective on films featuring popular star HA Jung-woo. HWANG Dong-hyuk will visit Italy with his period film The Fo...
- by Pierce Conran / Mar 19, 2018
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- THE RETURN Wins Golden Zenith at Montreal World Film Festival
- HEO Chul’s The Return won the Golden Zenith Award for Best First Fiction Feature Film at the 41st Montreal World Film Festival (MWFF). Based on a play of the same name, the film tells stories of regular customers who miss their loved ones, set in a bar that goes by the phrase, ‘Drink makgeolli (rice...
- by KIM Su-bin / Sep 13, 2017
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- THE ENDLESS and BEHIND THE DARK NIGHT Top 21st BiFan
- The 21st edition of the Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (BiFan) held its closing ceremony on July 21st, and gave its top award to The Endless in the Bucheon Choice competition, the third indie from US filmmakers Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead, and SHIM Chan-yang’s Behind the Dark Nig...
- by Pierce Conran / Jul 26, 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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- 3rd Wildflower Film Awards Unveil Nominees
- A MATTER OF INTERPRETATION, A MIDSUMMER’S FANTASIA Lead the Pack The Wildflower Film Awards Korea return for their third edition next month and this week unveiled their 2016 nominees. In total, 22 films, including 15 fiction and 7 documentary works, are up for 11 awards in 10 categories. For this y...
- by Pierce Conran / Mar 23, 2016