Hong Sangsoo Returns, Han Jaerim to Debut on the CroisetteFor the fourth year on the trot, a pair of Korean features have been selected as part of the main slate of the Cannes Film Festival. This year’s 74th edition of the renowned festival will welcome both Hong Sangsoo’s In Front of Your Face and Han Jaerim’s disaster film Emergency Declaration.In Front of Your Face, which will take part in the ...

Hong Sangsoo will debut his latest film, and second from this year, at the 71st edition of the Locarno International Film Festival next month. Hotel by the River is the auteur’s 23rd film and sixth collaboration with actress KIM Min-hee. Hotel by the River will be one among 15 titles competing for the festival’s top Golden Leopard Prize and is the only Korean film among the Swiss festival’s lineup...

Last month, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) welcomed its new members for 2018, which included a record 14 professionals from the Korean film industry, including an array of directors, actors, and below-the-line talents. Among the most prominent Korean names added to the rolls this year were filmmakers LEE Chang-dong, whose most recent work BURNING set the Cannes Film Festiv...