The Toronto Korean Film Festival returns on July 12th for its 6th edition. The festival will open with the documentary WEEKENDS (2016) before closing with ZHANG Lu’s latest indie drama A Quiet Dream (2016) on July 16th. A total of eight features and eight shorts will be screened at this year’s TKFF. A look at the prejudices experienced by G-Force, the first all-gay choir in Korea, WEEKENDS, the di...

The 4th edition of the Wildflower Film Awards Korea took place on April 12th at the Literary House on the slopes of Namsan in the heart of Seoul. During a night that celebrated diversity within Korea’s thriving independent cinema scene, the Grand Prize winner was director YOON Ga-eun for her debut feature The World of Us. The Narrative Film Director Award went to KIM Soo-hyun for his Jeonju Cinema...

Documentary Follows Experiences of Korea’s 1st Gay Chorus One of three Korean films that screened at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival, LEE Dong-ha’s debut documentary WEEKENDS triumphed by festival’s end, as it left Berlin with the 3rd place Panorama Audience Award Panorama Dokumente 2016. The top prize was won by Tomer & Barak Heymann’s Who’s Gonna Love Me Now?, a British-Israeli ...

The Korean Film Council hosted its annual Korean Film Night, in collaboration with the Korean Cultural Centre in Germany, during the 66th Berlin International Film Festival on February 13th in Potsdamer Platz. KOFIC Chairman KIM Sae-hoon and Korean Cultural Centre in Germany Chairman KWON Sae-hoon welcomed guests, which included festival delegates from Korea and overseas, as well as the filmmakers...

With the Panorama section now complete, the 66th Berlin International Film Festival will now welcome two more Korean films, in addition to YOON Ga-eun’s Generations selection The World of Us. E J-yong’s latest film The Bacchus Lady and LEE Dong-ha’s documentary Weekends will make the trip to Germany next month. Produced by the Korean Academy of Film Arts (KAFA), The Bacchus Lady features legendar...