The Jeonju International Film Festival (JIFF) has revealed the three Jeonju Cinema Projects that will populate its 21st edition, which will begin May 28. This year’s titles will be the homegrown films Three Sisters by LEE Seung-won and A Distant Place by PARK Kun-young, as well as Afterwater by Balkan filmmaker Dane KOMLJEN. Three Sisters is the third film by LEE Seung-won, who debuted with the Bu...

The Jeonju International Film Festival has annouced this year’s Jeonju Cinema Projects, which will screen at the festival’s forthcoming edition in May. The 2019 JCPs will include JEON Jee-hee’s KUKDO, KO Hee-young’s The Breathing of the Fire, KIM Jong-kwan’s Between Times and The Tears of Isadora from French director Damien MANIVEL. KO Hee-young and KIM Jong-kwan are both Jeonju alumni, having scr...

Four Korean features and two shorts were screened at the recently concluded Melbourne International Film Festival. The Cannes-invited titles BURNING by LEE Chang-dong and The Spy Gone North by YOON Jong-bin led the Korean contingent at the Australian festival. Based on the short story ‘Barn Burning’ by MURAKAMI Haruki, BURNINGis the first film by LEE Chang-dong since his 2010 masterwork Poetry. Fe...

Hello, everyone. I’m KIM Sae-hoon, the new Chairman of the Korean Film Council (KOFIC). I’m very happy to be introducing the Korean films that were invited to the 65th Berlin International Film Festival. First of all, Korean film industry legend and internationally recognized auteur IM Kwon-taek’s 102nd film Revivre was invited to the very first Critics’ Week section, continuing the positive criti...