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...

Korean auteurs LEE Chang-dong and Hong Sangsoo have been invited to the prestigious Karlovy Vary International Film Festival with their latest films, the arthouse dramas Burning and Grass. This year’s 53rd edition of KVIFF kicks off on June 29. Director LEE’s the first film after an eight-year break, Burning, debuted in competition at the Cannes Film Festival in May, where it picked up the FIPRESC...