This year’s 29th Buil Film Awards took place as usual during the first weekend of the Busan International Film Festival. KIM Bora’s House of Hummingbird (2018), which debuted at the festival two years earlier, returned to Busan to claim the Best Film Award at the event, which was staged by the Busan Ilbo newspaper and took place at the Busan Dream Theatre without a live audience, in order to stem ...
Documentary KIM-GUN (2018) won the Grand Prize at this year’s 7th Wildflower Film Awards, which took place in Central Seoul on May 22 while February was the most awarded film with a total of three prizes. A total of 15 awards were handed out during the event, which celebrates Korea’s vibrant low-budget film scene, and which was the first major film gathering to take place in the country since the ...