In order to commemorate the first 100 years of Korean cinema, BFI Southbank and the Korean Cultural Center UK (KCCUK) have teamed up to present all the existing feature-length Korean films that were produced prior to 1945, during the Korea’s Colonial Era. The series, which is entitled 'Early Korean Cinema: Lost Films From the Japanese Colonial Period’, began on February 7 and will continue thr...

Gala Screening for Bong Joon Ho’s Sci-fi Hit The Forum section of next month’s 64th Berlin International Film Festival has now finalized its lineup after announcing its list of special screenings. Among those will be Bong Joon Ho’s ambitious sci-fi production Snowpiercer. The blockbuster film takes place in a near future plunged in a new ice age where the remainder of the human civilization resid...

Busan Doc and Indie Headed to GermanyThe Berlin International Film Festival is gearing up for its 64th edition next month by slowly revealing its program and the first Korean films to be confirmed for the event are Non-fiction Diary and 10 Minutes, which will screen in the Forum Section. Both films are debuts and will have their international premieres in Germany. Non-fiction Diary and 10 Minutes...

CROSSROADS OF YOUTH, presented at the Forum section of the Berlin International Film Festival Crossroads of Youth, directed by AHN Jong-hwa in 1943, screened at the Berlin International Film Festival on February 10th (CET). Crossroads of Youth, the oldest silent film in Korea, was reorganized by the executive director KIM Tae-yong (director of Late Autumn) and made into a musical with a narrator...