Director: Kim Bo-ra London Film Festival 2019 review LFF highlight House of Hummingbird observes the understated journey of the young Eun-hee (Park Ji-hu) as she wanders through 1994 Seoul with no defined path in mind, and the […]
Korean films
Director: Kim Tae-yong London Korean Film Festival teaser screening review Youth and tradition inadvertently collide for a vibrant celebration of life, art, and culture in the boldly eccentric new feature from director Kim Tae-yong. Though […]
Director: Kim Yoon-seok Fantasia International Film Festival 2019 review True to its title, Kim Yoon-seok’s Another Child sees the sudden birth of an unplanned baby whose place in the world feels uncertain and ill-defined. And […]
The cinema of Kwon Hayoun is haunted by absence, standing as a ghostly echo of what’s long gone or never was. Though her short films use real-life stories and experiences as their subjects, these elegiac […]
The titular relationship of The Poet and the Boy is defined by a one-sided and stifled passion that might still serve as a preferable alternative to no passion at all. In the directorial debut of Kim Yang-hee, Yang […]
Park Kiyong (b. 1961) is a singular figure in Korean film culture: a KAFA graduate who went on to combine a filmmaking career with a key role in film teaching at KAFA itself and at […]