The Wildflower Film Awards Korea are returning for their 6th edition next month, once again to be held at the Literature House Seoul on Namsan Mountain in the heart of the Korean capital. This year’s top nominees are KIM Ui-seok’s After My Death (2018) and SHIN Dong-seok’s Last Child (2018), which received six nominations apiece and initially premiered together in the New Currents competition of t...

The 20th Far East Film Festival in Udine (FEFF) has selected 15 films from South Korea, including this year’s opening film Steel Rain. The North Korea-themed action-drama’s director YANG Woo-suk and stars JUNG Woo-sung and KWAK Do-won will travel to Italy, along with a slew of other actors and filmmakers from Korea. Action maestro RYOO Seung-wan will be the subject of a special focus section that ...

The 43rd Seoul Independent Film Festival (SIFF) came to a close after 9 days of screening one of Korea's largest offerings of independent cinema. The closing ceremony, which was hosted by actors KIM Hye-na and NAM Yeon-woo, was held on December 8 at the CGV Art House theater in Seoul's Apgujeong neighborhood where officials were on hand to announce the festival's category winners. The...