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- ALL OF US ARE DEAD Chew Up 1st Place in Global Netflix Rankings
- ALL OF US ARE DEAD (2022)For the third time in five months, a drama series helmed by a Korean film director has topped the global Netflix rankings. Lee Jaekyoo’s All of Us Are Dead shot to the top spot on the global streaming service during its launch ahead of the Lunar New Year holidays in Korea. I...
- by Pierce Conran / Feb 07, 2022
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- 7 Korean Films, Invited to the Berlin International Film Festival
- The Novelist's Film(2021)Seven Korean films are heading for Berlin. The 72nd Berlin International Film Festival unveiled the lineup of invited films on January 19 (local time). According to the news, Director Hong Sangsoo's new film <The Novelist's Film> has been invited to the Com...
- by Pierce Conran / Jan 21, 2022
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- A LEAVE Crowned Best Independent Film of the Year
- Lee Ranhee’s debut film A Leave (2020) has been voted as the Best Independent Film of the Year by the Association of Korea Independent Film & TV. Director Lee recently picked up the Best Director Award from the 22nd Women in Film Awards.A Leave had its world premiere last year in the signature N...
- by Pierce Conran / Dec 31, 2021
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- HOUSE OF HUMMINGBIRD Wins Prize at LGBT Film Festival in Ljubljana
- Kim Bora’s acclaimed debut film House of Hummingbird (2018) has won the Audience Award at the LGBT Film Festival in Ljubljana, Slovenia. It shared to accolade with the Finnish film Tove.Kim’s work continues to pick up awards on the international festival trail, three years after its first premiered ...
- by Pierce Conran / Dec 23, 2021
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- HOUSE OF HUMMINGBIRD Triumphs at 29th Buil Film Awards
- 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...
- by Pierce Conran / Nov 03, 2020
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- HOUSE OF HUMMINGBIRD Director Picks Sci-Fi Adaptation as Sophomore Project
- KIM Bora, the director of the breakout indie sensation House of Hummingbird (2018), has signed on to her sophomore feature-length project. Production company Lezhin Studios announced last week that the award-winning director will adapt the sci-fi story ‘Spectrum’ from KIM Cho-yeob’s short story coll...
- by Pierce Conran / Oct 06, 2020
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- 13th Hungary Korean Film Festival to be Held Next Month
- 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...
- by HWANG Hee-yun / Aug 28, 2020
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- PARASITE Tops Grand Bell and BaekSang Arts Awards
- The 56th editions of both the Grand Bell Film Awards and the BaekSang Arts Awards were held in quick succession earlier this month, on the 3rd and 5th, both without an audience for the first time, owing to public health concerns during the COVID-19 Pandemic. BONG Joon-ho’s Parasite (2019) won the Be...
- by Pierce Conran / Jun 16, 2020
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- Kino Lorber to Give HOUSE OF HUMMINGBIRD Virtual Theatrical Release in North America
- KIM Bora’s sensational debut House of Hummingbird, which has blazed a trail on the festival circuit ever since its launch at the Busan International Film Festival in October, 2018, will be getting a virtual theatrical release in North America through Kino Lorber’s Kino Marquee streaming platform, wh...
- by Pierce Conran / Jun 12, 2020
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- KIM-GUN Triumphs at 7th Wildflower Film Awards
- 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-bud...
- by Pierce Conran / Jun 04, 2020
