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- Jeonju Film Festival to Stage Taeheung Film Company Retrospective
- Chihwhaseon (2002)In addition to hosting the premieres of independent works from Korea and around the world, this year’s upcoming 23rd edition of the Jeonju International Film Festival will also stage an eight-film retrospective dedicated to the influential Taeheung Film Company, which has been resp...
- by Pierce Conran / Mar 17, 2022
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- THE HORSE THIEVES and MOONLIT WINTER to Bookend 24th Busan Film Festival
- The Busan International Film Festival will descend on Korea’s second largest city once more next month for its 24th edition, which will open with the film The Horse Thieves. Roads of Time, co-directed by Kazhakstan’s Yerlan NURMUKHAMBETOV and Japan’s Lisa TAKEBA, while Moonlit Winter, from homegrown...
- by Pierce Conran / Sep 18, 2019
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- Ulju Mountain Film Festival Names BAE Chang-ho as Festival Director
- Film director BAE Chang-ho has been appointed as the new festival director of the Ulju Mountain Film Festival (UMFF). The announcement was made during an extraordinary general meeting held on April 9. Director BAE has been active in the Korean film industry since the 1980s. He made his directorial d...
- by Pierce Conran / Apr 24, 2018
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- Christoph Terhechte, head of Berlinale’s Forum Section, Receives Korean Cinema Award
- The 22nd Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) announced the recipient of its Korean Cinema Award. “BIFF has selected Christoph Terhechte, the head of the Berlin International Film Festival’s Forum section, as the recipient of this year’s Korean Cinema Award” the festival released in a statement ...
- by SONG Soon-jin / Sep 06, 2017
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- ZHANG Lu’s A Quiet Dream to Open 21st BIFF
- 2016 Busan Program Features Over 300 Films In the lead up to its 2016 edition, the Busan International Film Festival has put together an impressive lineup for its 21st annual event. A total of 301 films from 69 countries will be screened at the festival, including 96 world premieres and 27 internat...
- by Pierce Conran / Sep 09, 2016
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- Busan to Stage LEE Doo-yong Retrospective
- Showcase for Classic Genre Filmmaker at 21st BIFF The focus of this year’s Korean Cinema Retrospective at the 21st edition of the Busan International Film Festival will be filmmaker LEE Doo-yong. Forging a body of work that saw him hop across several different film genres, LEE is responsible for cl...
- by Pierce Conran / Sep 05, 2016
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- KOFA Issues New Family Film DVD Boxset
- Co-Released by Ministry of Culture, Sports and TourismThe Korean Film Archive (KOFA), hot off its recent bounty of news concerning therestoration of The Aimless Bullet (1961), their first Blu-Ray releases (The Housemaid [1960] and March of Fools [1975]) and the revelation of their Top 100 Korean Fil...
- by Pierce Conran / Feb 05, 2014
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- “PARK Pulled Off Many Extraordinary Feats for Korean Film World”
- Memorial Service for PARK Held A memorial service for director PARK Chul-soo who died on February 19th was held in Cinema Theque KOFA at the Korean Film Archive on March 14th. The service was held with a screening of the film A Journey with Korean Masters for reporters. PARK took part in productio...
- by KIM Hyun-min / Mar 18, 2013