Following the announcement of the London Korean Film Festival’s (Lkff) upcoming 18th edition which gives special commemoration to the 40th Anniversary of the Korean Academy of Film Arts (Kafa), the festival is delighted to reveal its 2023 programme. At the BFI Southbank, the London Korean Film Festival will host the Opening and Closing ceremonies in celebration of the 140th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the UK and Korea.
The Festival runs from 2 November – 16 November 2023 with a programme of 40 films comprising the following strands: Cinema Now, Special Focus : 40th Anniversary of Kafa, Women’s Voices, Special Screenings and Korea Season.
A Normal Family by Hur Jin-ho will open the festival on the 2nd November at BFI Southbank with the director in attendance. The story is based on the celebrated Dutch novel Het Diner (The Dinner) by Herman Koch, which has sold over a million copies. The latest...
The Festival runs from 2 November – 16 November 2023 with a programme of 40 films comprising the following strands: Cinema Now, Special Focus : 40th Anniversary of Kafa, Women’s Voices, Special Screenings and Korea Season.
A Normal Family by Hur Jin-ho will open the festival on the 2nd November at BFI Southbank with the director in attendance. The story is based on the celebrated Dutch novel Het Diner (The Dinner) by Herman Koch, which has sold over a million copies. The latest...
- 10/6/2023
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
Special mention went to Chinese feature ‘Flaming Cloud’.
Malaysian drama Abang Adik scooped the top prize at the New York Asian Film Festival, which closed last night with a screening of Netflix animation The Monkey King.
Abang Adik received the Uncaged Award for best feature film, beating eight other titles from across Asia in Nyaff’s competition strand. It marks the directorial debut feature of Jin Ong and follows two orphaned brothers whose bond is tested after a brutal accident.
Director Ong was in New York to present the North American premiere of the film at the festival. Accepting the award,...
Malaysian drama Abang Adik scooped the top prize at the New York Asian Film Festival, which closed last night with a screening of Netflix animation The Monkey King.
Abang Adik received the Uncaged Award for best feature film, beating eight other titles from across Asia in Nyaff’s competition strand. It marks the directorial debut feature of Jin Ong and follows two orphaned brothers whose bond is tested after a brutal accident.
Director Ong was in New York to present the North American premiere of the film at the festival. Accepting the award,...
- 7/31/2023
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Lee Sol-hui graduated from the Department of Film, Television and Multimedia at Sungkyunkwan University before studying directing at the Korean Academy of Film Arts. She directed several short films that went to film festivals, including The End of That Summer (2017) and Look-alike (2020), before her graduation work, Anthill (2021), was selected for the Busan International Film Festival. Greenhouse is her first feature film.
On the occasion of “Greenhouse” screening at New York Asian Film Festival, we speak with her about shooting her first feature after a series of sorts, the inspiration behind the story, the issue with caring for the elderly, the finale of the movie, Lee Chang-dong and her future plans
Greenhouse is screening at New York Asian Film Festival
The film won two awards in Busan and is now having an extensive festival run. Are you proud of this success and did you expect it?
First of all, I would...
On the occasion of “Greenhouse” screening at New York Asian Film Festival, we speak with her about shooting her first feature after a series of sorts, the inspiration behind the story, the issue with caring for the elderly, the finale of the movie, Lee Chang-dong and her future plans
Greenhouse is screening at New York Asian Film Festival
The film won two awards in Busan and is now having an extensive festival run. Are you proud of this success and did you expect it?
First of all, I would...
- 7/26/2023
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
South Korean mainstream cinema is best known worldwide for its strong thrillers. The country's indies, on the other hand, are appreciated for their humanist dramas. For her debut feature “Greenhouse”, Lee Sol-hui attempts a heady mix of the two genres.
Greenhouse is screening at New York Asian Film Festival
Moon-jung is an unassuming woman who is killing time until the day her juvenile son, currently detained for an unknown crime, comes back home. She lives in a makeshift home inside a greenhouse but dreams of having a decent rented place in time for her son to return. To facilitate this, she works as a caregiver for an elderly couple, with the woman, who suffers from paranoid bouts, claiming Moon-jung wants to kill her and the elderly gentleman, who is going blind and losing his memory slowly to Alzheimer's, being a kind and friendly employer to Moon-jung. Prone to hitting herself in penance,...
Greenhouse is screening at New York Asian Film Festival
Moon-jung is an unassuming woman who is killing time until the day her juvenile son, currently detained for an unknown crime, comes back home. She lives in a makeshift home inside a greenhouse but dreams of having a decent rented place in time for her son to return. To facilitate this, she works as a caregiver for an elderly couple, with the woman, who suffers from paranoid bouts, claiming Moon-jung wants to kill her and the elderly gentleman, who is going blind and losing his memory slowly to Alzheimer's, being a kind and friendly employer to Moon-jung. Prone to hitting herself in penance,...
- 7/22/2023
- by Rhythm Zaveri
- AsianMoviePulse
Japanese filmmaker Junji Sakamoto to receive the Screen International Star Asia Lifetime Achievement Award.
The New York Asian Film Festival (Nyaff) has revealed the features that will compete for its Uncaged Award and announced that Japanese filmmaker Junji Sakamoto will receive the Screen International Star Asia Lifetime Achievement Award.
The nine-strong competition for best feature film at the festival, running July 14-30, will include the world premieres of Hong Kong horror Back Home and Chinese films Flaming Cloud and Redemption With Life.
Back Home is a suspense horror that marks the feature directorial debut of Nate Ki and stars Anson...
The New York Asian Film Festival (Nyaff) has revealed the features that will compete for its Uncaged Award and announced that Japanese filmmaker Junji Sakamoto will receive the Screen International Star Asia Lifetime Achievement Award.
The nine-strong competition for best feature film at the festival, running July 14-30, will include the world premieres of Hong Kong horror Back Home and Chinese films Flaming Cloud and Redemption With Life.
Back Home is a suspense horror that marks the feature directorial debut of Nate Ki and stars Anson...
- 6/23/2023
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Seoul-based sales outfit Finecut has inked a batch of deals for the most recent films from South Korea’s most prolific auteur, Hong Sangsoo. Hong’s latest, In Our Day, which will premiere as the closing title of Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight section on May 25, has sold to France (Capricci), Spain (L’Atalante Cinema) and Greece (Ama Films). The film follows a woman in her 40s, temporarily living at the home of a friend, and a man in his 70s living alone, who both have visitors with serious questions to ask.
Hong’s second most recent feature, In Water, which premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival in February, also has done brisk business at Cannes’ Marche du Film. The movie has sold to France (Arizona Films Distribution), Spain (L’Atalante Cinema) and Taiwan (Cola Films), following its earlier sale to The Cinema Guild for North America.
Finecut has also closed...
Hong’s second most recent feature, In Water, which premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival in February, also has done brisk business at Cannes’ Marche du Film. The movie has sold to France (Arizona Films Distribution), Spain (L’Atalante Cinema) and Taiwan (Cola Films), following its earlier sale to The Cinema Guild for North America.
Finecut has also closed...
- 5/23/2023
- by Patrick Brzeski
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Seoul-based sales agent Finecut has sold Hong Sangsoo’s In Our Day to France’s Capricci, Spain’s L’Atalante Cinema and Ama Films for Greece.
The film, which premieres in Directors Fortnight on May 25, follow a woman in her 40s, temporarily living at the home of a friend, and a man in his 70s living alone, who both have visitors with serious questions to ask.
Hong’s previous film, In Water, which premiered at this year’s Berlin Film Festival, is also selling to multiple territories, including France (Arizona Films Distribution), Spain (L’Atalante Cinema) and Taiwan (Cola Films). The film previously sold to The Cinema Guild for North America.
Finecut has also done brisk business on three titles from young female directors – July Jung’s Next Sohee, Lee Sol-hui’s Greenhouse and Lee Ji-eun’s The Hill of Secrets.
Next Sohee, which premiered in Cannes Critics Week last year,...
The film, which premieres in Directors Fortnight on May 25, follow a woman in her 40s, temporarily living at the home of a friend, and a man in his 70s living alone, who both have visitors with serious questions to ask.
Hong’s previous film, In Water, which premiered at this year’s Berlin Film Festival, is also selling to multiple territories, including France (Arizona Films Distribution), Spain (L’Atalante Cinema) and Taiwan (Cola Films). The film previously sold to The Cinema Guild for North America.
Finecut has also done brisk business on three titles from young female directors – July Jung’s Next Sohee, Lee Sol-hui’s Greenhouse and Lee Ji-eun’s The Hill of Secrets.
Next Sohee, which premiered in Cannes Critics Week last year,...
- 5/22/2023
- by Liz Shackleton
- Deadline Film + TV
Further sales made of Hong’s Berlinale title ‘in water’ and others.
South Korea’s Finecut has closed deals on several titles led by auteur Hong Sangsoo’s In Our Day, which is set to close Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes, and his recent Berlinale title in water.
In Our Day sold to France (Capricci), Spain (L’Atalante Cinema) and Greece (Ama Films) ahead of its premiere on May 25. The feature follows an actress and old poet who each host a visitor and dodge questions posed by their guests using food, drink and games.
The prolific filmmaker’s first feature of this year was in water,...
South Korea’s Finecut has closed deals on several titles led by auteur Hong Sangsoo’s In Our Day, which is set to close Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes, and his recent Berlinale title in water.
In Our Day sold to France (Capricci), Spain (L’Atalante Cinema) and Greece (Ama Films) ahead of its premiere on May 25. The feature follows an actress and old poet who each host a visitor and dodge questions posed by their guests using food, drink and games.
The prolific filmmaker’s first feature of this year was in water,...
- 5/22/2023
- by Jean Noh
- ScreenDaily
Hong Kong Family by Eric Tsang Hing Weng – The Humiliated Family Man
The first half hour of “Hong Kong Family” unfortunately promises much more than the film can eventually deliver. The characters are introduced, precisely and already in a bitingly ironic tone. It’s about the titular family. It consists of a father, a mother, a daughter and a son. At the beginning of the film, they are just getting into the car to go to the grandmother, the mother of the mother, to celebrate her birthday. The first argument breaks out when the man wants to keep the basket of pastries on his lap so that it doesn’t spill out in the trunk during the drive, but the woman puts it in the trunk anyway. Then it is about the fact that the man has no job and, according to his wife’s idea, does not try hard...
The first half hour of “Hong Kong Family” unfortunately promises much more than the film can eventually deliver. The characters are introduced, precisely and already in a bitingly ironic tone. It’s about the titular family. It consists of a father, a mother, a daughter and a son. At the beginning of the film, they are just getting into the car to go to the grandmother, the mother of the mother, to celebrate her birthday. The first argument breaks out when the man wants to keep the basket of pastries on his lap so that it doesn’t spill out in the trunk during the drive, but the woman puts it in the trunk anyway. Then it is about the fact that the man has no job and, according to his wife’s idea, does not try hard...
- 10/25/2022
- by Teresa Vena
- AsianMoviePulse
Korean filmmaker Lee Jeong-hong’s A Wild Roomer and Shivamma, from India’s Jaishankar Aryar, were the winners of the New Currents Awards at the close of an encouragingly busy Busan International Film Festival.
A Wild Roomer, about a 30-something drifter, picked up multiple honors at the festival, also taking the Netpac Award, Critic b Award and Kbs Independent Film Award. Set in an Indian village, Shivamma is about an illiterate woman who falls for a pyramid selling scheme.
The Kim Jiseok Awards went to Scent Of Wind, from Iranian filmmaker Hadi Mohaghegh, which also played as Biff’s opening film, and Alteration from Uzbekistan’s Yalkin Tuychiev.
Other winners included Aamir Bashir’s The Winter Within, which took the Kb New Currents Audience Award, and Vinay Shukla’s documentary While We Watched, which was presented with the Busan Cinephile Award (see full list of winners below...
A Wild Roomer, about a 30-something drifter, picked up multiple honors at the festival, also taking the Netpac Award, Critic b Award and Kbs Independent Film Award. Set in an Indian village, Shivamma is about an illiterate woman who falls for a pyramid selling scheme.
The Kim Jiseok Awards went to Scent Of Wind, from Iranian filmmaker Hadi Mohaghegh, which also played as Biff’s opening film, and Alteration from Uzbekistan’s Yalkin Tuychiev.
Other winners included Aamir Bashir’s The Winter Within, which took the Kb New Currents Audience Award, and Vinay Shukla’s documentary While We Watched, which was presented with the Busan Cinephile Award (see full list of winners below...
- 10/14/2022
- by Liz Shackleton
- Deadline Film + TV
Korean sales firm, Finecut is using the Asian Contents & Film Market on the sidelines of the Busan International Film Festival to launch comic action film “Brave Citizen.”
The film, now in post-production, is an adaptation of a webtoon which ranked first in popularity when it was serialized on the platform Comico. It was later serialized on another Korean platform Naver Webtoon and recorded 2.27 million views on its Line Webtoon platform in Taiwan.
It tells the tale of female former boxing champion who has become a substitute high school teacher. Having witnessed intolerable violence, she dons a mask and throws her first punch for justice.
The film is directed by Park Jin-pyo, an established director of numerous Korean commercial films including “Love Forecast,” “Voice of a Murder” and “You Are My Sunshine.”
Production is by StudioN,. While a theatrical release in planned for 2023, the film is presented by Content Wavve, one...
The film, now in post-production, is an adaptation of a webtoon which ranked first in popularity when it was serialized on the platform Comico. It was later serialized on another Korean platform Naver Webtoon and recorded 2.27 million views on its Line Webtoon platform in Taiwan.
It tells the tale of female former boxing champion who has become a substitute high school teacher. Having witnessed intolerable violence, she dons a mask and throws her first punch for justice.
The film is directed by Park Jin-pyo, an established director of numerous Korean commercial films including “Love Forecast,” “Voice of a Murder” and “You Are My Sunshine.”
Production is by StudioN,. While a theatrical release in planned for 2023, the film is presented by Content Wavve, one...
- 10/6/2022
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Director Park Jin-pyo returns with an action comedy film based on the popular Korean webtoon of the same name.
South Korean sales agent Finecut is launching international sales of Brave Citizen (working title) ahead of the Asian Contents & Film Market (Acfm).
The action comedy is based on Korean webtoon (internet comic) Brave Citizen, which Finecut reports ranked first in popularity when it was serialised on the webtoon and web novel platform Comico. It was also serialised on the larger Naver Webtoon platform and recorded 2.27 million views on the Line Webtoon platform in Taiwan.
Directed by Park Jin-pyo, the film adaptation...
South Korean sales agent Finecut is launching international sales of Brave Citizen (working title) ahead of the Asian Contents & Film Market (Acfm).
The action comedy is based on Korean webtoon (internet comic) Brave Citizen, which Finecut reports ranked first in popularity when it was serialised on the webtoon and web novel platform Comico. It was also serialised on the larger Naver Webtoon platform and recorded 2.27 million views on the Line Webtoon platform in Taiwan.
Directed by Park Jin-pyo, the film adaptation...
- 10/6/2022
- by Jean Noh
- ScreenDaily
Leading independent sales agency Finecut has picked up rights representation duties for “Greenhouse,” which will play this week in the Busan International Film Festival’s Vision section.
The director, Lee Sol-hui previously saw her Korean Academy of Film Arts graduation short film “Anthill” play in the festival’s Wide Angle: Korean Short Form Competition. With Kim Seo-hyung (“The Villainess”) in the lead role, the film tracks the pain and suffering of a woman who suffers a psychological disorder.
Also new on the company’s line up at the Asian Contents & Film Market is revenge-themed thriller “Christmas Carol,” adapted from a Korean best-selling novel of the same name. Directed by Kim Sung Soo, who also made “Save Me,” a 2010 cult series on Korean cable channel, Ocn. The film has the ingredients for a fan following among K-Pop fans as it stars boyband, GOT7’s Park Jinyoung.
Finecut comes to the market...
The director, Lee Sol-hui previously saw her Korean Academy of Film Arts graduation short film “Anthill” play in the festival’s Wide Angle: Korean Short Form Competition. With Kim Seo-hyung (“The Villainess”) in the lead role, the film tracks the pain and suffering of a woman who suffers a psychological disorder.
Also new on the company’s line up at the Asian Contents & Film Market is revenge-themed thriller “Christmas Carol,” adapted from a Korean best-selling novel of the same name. Directed by Kim Sung Soo, who also made “Save Me,” a 2010 cult series on Korean cable channel, Ocn. The film has the ingredients for a fan following among K-Pop fans as it stars boyband, GOT7’s Park Jinyoung.
Finecut comes to the market...
- 10/5/2022
- by Rebecca Souw
- Variety Film + TV
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