The Hungary Korean Film will be held from September 4 to 10 in the Corvin Cinema in Budapest, Hungary. The festival, which is celebrating its 13th anniversary this year, will open with the film that was the most talked-about title in Korea last year, LEE Byoung-heon’s Extreme Job. The Hungary Korean Film Festival started modestly in 2008, when it was called Korean Cinema Week, but has grown into t...

Actress CHOI Hee-seo (aka Moon CHOI) recently teamed up with Japanese stars Joe ODAGIRI and IKEMATSU Sosuke for the film Angel of Asia (translated title). From Japanese filmmaker ISHII Yuya, the film was shot entirely in Korea over February and March of this year. IKEMATSU stars as Takeshi, a young Japanese man raising his eight-year-old son alone following his wife’s death. They travel to Seoul t...

The Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (BIFAN) will return next month and opening this year’s 24th edition on July 9 will be Whispering Corridors: The Humming, the sixth entry in the long-running Korean horror franchise. This summer’s BIFAN will be a hybrid event mixing physical screenings and an online showcase. Next month’s festival will feature 174 films from 42 countries, including ...

Korean Academy of Film Arts (KAFA), one of the best film educational institutions in Korea, held its graduation film festival in January. Titled KAFA 33, it premiered short films and animated short films produced by 33rd graduates of KAFA over the past year. Meanwhile, KAFA has had more than 600 graduates in various fields including directing, filming, producing and animation since it was founded ...