The Busan International Film Festival will descend on Korea’s second largest city once more next month for its 24th edition, which will open with the film The Horse Thieves. Roads of Time, co-directed by Kazhakstan’s Yerlan NURMUKHAMBETOV and Japan’s Lisa TAKEBA, while Moonlit Winter, from homegrown director LIM Dae-hyeong but shot in Japan, is set to close the event. NURMUKHAMBETOV was a recipien...

The Jecheon International Music & Film Festival (JIMFF) is returning for its 15th edition next month, which will run from August 8 to 13 in North Chungcheong Province. During a press conference this week in Seoul, JIMFF revealed this year’s program, which will open with Peter WEBBER’s reggae documentary Inna de Yard - The Soul of Jamaica at the open air venue by Cheongpung Lake. This year’s pr...

IM Kwon-taek, often called the godfather of Korean cinema, has been honoured at the International Film Festival of India in Goa, where he was bestowed their Lifetime Achievement Award. He received the prize during the opening festivities of this year’s 47th edition. IM is among the three most prolific Korean filmmakers of all time, having made his 102nd feature Revivre as recently as 2014. His wor...