SEOUL, Sept. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — This year’s Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) is ready to entertain local and overseas movie buffs with a number of highly anticipated world premieres and long-awaited holdovers of major international film fests for 10 days in the middle of the fall season next month. The 27th edition of Asia’s [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — This year’s Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) will completely return to normal next month after pandemic-disrupted years with no social distancing at all events, including opening and closing ceremonies, organizers said Wednesday. Asia’s biggest film festival will be held from Oct. 5-14 in the southern port city of Busan, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The Japanese Film Festival Online 2022 (JFF) will open for a two-week run next month, with 13 Japanese films to be screened free of charge, the event’s organizers said Saturday. Under the slogan “Online Trip To Japan,” the festival will start on Feb. 14 and run through Feb. 27 [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — This year’s Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) will return almost to normal after a pandemic-disrupted year, holding an offline opening ceremony with spectators and on-site events with some big-name filmmakers from home and abroad, organizers said Wednesday. The biggest film festival in Asia will be held from Oct. 6-15 [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) will be staged two weeks behind schedule and on a lower scale due to the coronavirus pandemic, its organizer said Friday. The biggest film festival in Asia was initially to be held from Oct. 7-16, but the secretariat decided to postpone it until [...]
SEOUL, July 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s largest annual genre film festival came to a close Thursday after showcasing films both online and offline amid the new coronavirus pandemic. The 24th Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (BIFAN) ran from July 9 in Bucheon, 50 kilometers west of Seoul, featuring a total of 194 titles [...]
BUCHEON, July 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The 24th Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (BIFAN) has seen a constant inflow of visitors despite the coronavirus outbreak since its grand opening on July 9. On the second day of the festival, tickets for 24 out of 32 film screenings were sold out. For the weekends, all 63 [...]
SEOUL, June 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean animated film “The Shaman Sorceress” won a special jury award at this year’s Annecy International Animation Film Festival, the event’s organizers said Monday. Director Ahn Jae-huun’s feature received the Contrechamp Jury Distinction prize at the festival that kicked off on June 15 and runs through June 30. [...]
SEOUL, June 22 (Korea Bizwire) — With the coronavirus pandemic raging across the world, a South Korean film festival has been making a fresh attempt to go both on and offline as a way to keep functions relatively alive for filmmakers and film buffs. Organizers of the Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (BIFAN) said last [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — A free film festival is being held every Saturday evening under bridges that span the Han River in Seoul. Since July 20, the Seoul Metropolitan Government (SMG) has been holding the “2019 Grand Movie Festival Under Han River Bridges” at 8 p.m. every Saturday at Cheonho Bridge, Cheongdam Bridge, [...]