The 7th Muju International Film Festival (MJFF) will be held during five days from June 5 to 9, announced the organizing committee of the festival. Sit within the hilly Muju County in the North Jolla Province, the festival has the particularity of offering open-air screenings in a forest clearing of the Deogyu Mountain National Park. There, people can enjoy a selection of independent films from Ko...

Later this month, the world’s longest running celebration of Korean film, the Florence Korea Film Fest, will return with a program boasting 44 feature-length and short Korean films. For its 15th edition, the festival will open on March 23rd with KIM Jee-woon’s The Age of Shadows, which had its world premiere in neighboring Venice last fall and for which the director will be in attendance. One week...

My Love, Don't Cross That River Also Awarded at Italian Film Festival JANG Kun-jae’s third feature A Midsummer’s Fantasia won the Jury Prize for Best Film at the 16th Asiatica Film Mediale - Encounters with Asian Cinema Festival in Rome, Italy. The critically-praised indie shared the top prize with Abbas RAFEI’s Oblivious Season from Iran. Additionally, JIN Mo-young’s My Love, Don’t Cross Tha...

A Message of Freedom, Communication and Life from a Divided Land, DMZ Docs 2014 KoBiz Online Screening! Following the Jecheon International Music & Film Festival, DMZ International Documentary Film Festival also represents Korea and is facing its 6th year in 2014. The festival was recognized for discovering films such as <MANSHIN: Ten Thousand Spirits>,<The Basement Satellite>, <...

Foreign movies continue to top over Korean movies. According to the integrated ticket sales network of Korean Film Council (KOFIC) on April 17th, the Marvel Comics Studio’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier has topped in the box office chart even with the new released Korean movies Broken, Innocent Thing, etc.

Time for Hollywood blockbusters. Marvel Studios franchise entry Captain America: The Winter Soldier and the disaster film Noah, which stars Russell Crowe and Jennifer Connelly, are holding the top spots in Korean theaters. According to the integrated ticket sales network of the Korean Film Council (KOFIC) on April 3rd, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, the sequel of Captain America: The First A...

Strong men dominate Korean theaters. 300: Rise of an Empire, coming seven years after the original graphic novel adaptation, and Non-Stop, a solo show for Liam Neeson are pursuing steady runs at the box office. According to the integrated ticket sales network of the Korean Film Council (KOFIC), on March 20th, 300: Rise of an Empire, produced by Zack Snyder who directed the original 300 (2006) and...