This week, we bring you a selection of documentaries spanning the nations of Vietnam, France, South Korea, and the US. Scroll down to learn more! The Rivers (dir. Mai Hua, France/Vietnam) Mai Hua, a French […]
Korean films
Over the weekend, Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite – already the first South Korean film to be nominated for an Oscar in any category – made Academy Award history once more by becoming the first non-English language […]
An air of sad inevitably fills the awkward silences of Scattered Night as the young Su-min (Moon Seung-ah) and her older brother Jin-ho (Choi Joon-woo) struggle to understand why their family is in the process of […]
In director Shim Hye-jung’s A Bedsore, a paralysed woman’s festering ulcer serves as the catalyst for her family’s gradual implosion, as husband Chang-sik (Kim Jong-gu) clashes with his self-involved children and caretaker Sook-ok (Jeon Guk-hyang) […]
Director: Hong Sang-soo London Korean Film Festival 2019 review Like a single cell repeatedly dividing and mutating to form a complex organism, the fragmentary structure of Grass suggests a work that’s continuously copying, expanding, and […]
Writer-director Kim Bo-ra’s House of Hummingbird is a coming-of-age film of rare patience and clarity, imbuing the wandering existence of 14-year-old Eun-hee (Park Ji-hu) and her 1994 Seoul environment with understated mood and a vivid sense […]