Cinéfondation Selects K’Arts Short CICADA

Yoon Daewon Film Invited to CannesThe Korean short film Cicada, from student filmmaker Yoon Daewon, has been invited to the Cinéfondation section of this year’s Cannes Film Festival. The short joins two other Korean features already invited to the prestigious ...

KIM Min-ju’s TWENTY Invited to Cannes Student Short Competition

The Korean short film Twenty from student director KIM Min-ju has been selected as part of the Cinéfondation lineup of this year’s Cannes Film Festival. The film is one of 17 student shorts invited to the competition this year and was chosen among 1952 entries...

Toronto Korean Film Festival Kicks Off 3rd Edition

Rather than program a recent hit, the Toronto Korean Film Festival (TKFF) kicks off its third edition today (May 27th) with a screening of YU Hyun-mok’s classic noir The Aimless Bullet (1961). Over the coming days, the festival will showcase a variety of featu...

7 Korean films at the 64th Cannes Film Festival

Recent works of Korean directors, who were already invited to Cannes once before, are selected to 2011 Cannes's Un Certain Regard. The lists are HONG Sangsoo's new film <The Day He Arrives>, a story based on a famous town, Bukchon, in Seoul; NA H...