Author Marc Raymond

Last year, for the first time since 2007, I was unable to attend the Jeonju film festival, as it was in effect canceled, although there was still a program and some local screenings over a few months of many of...

The 25th Busan International Film Festival was originally scheduled to take place in early October, as usual, with a full lineup and screenings, albeit with certain increased safety measures and reduced foreign...

Busan 2019 marked a year of celebration, with multiple retrospective screenings in honour of the 100th anniversary of Korean cinema coinciding with Bong Joon-ho’s Gi-saeng-chung (Parasite) receiving Korea’s fir...

2019 marked the 20th anniversary of the Jeonju film festival, which celebrated with its largest program to date, with an emphasis on both the history of Korean cinema as well as the legacy of the festival itsel...

The latest edition of the Busan International Film Festival featured the usual lineup: a number of films getting their Asian or Korean premieres after having debuted at more prestigious festivals (Cannes, Venic...

Over the course of five days at this year’s Jeonju film festival, I watched 21 films, the vast majority of which were Korean, with 15 of these being world premieres. This is in stark contrast to my first visit ...

Because of an extended national vacation of ten days in early October due to the unusual convergence of various holidays (most notably Chuseok, the Korean Thanksgiving), this year’s Busan film festival was dela...

The year 2016 in Korean cinema was especially strong if turbulent, with many major films by established auteurs, impressive debuts and second features from younger directors, and a political controversy over th...

In 2014, the Busan International Film Festival screened the documentary Diving Bell (The Truth Will Not Sink with Sewol), co-directed by Lee Sang-ho and Ahn Hae-ryong. Even before this premiere, there was contr...

2016 marked the 17th year for the Jeonju International Film Festival, held annually in early May in a small southern city in South Korea’s Jeolla Province. The festival has long been South Korea’s second major ...

Hong Sang-soo, 25 October 1960, Seoul, South Korea There are few filmmakers as distinctive as the South Korean master Hong Sang-soo, a writer-director whose films are immediately recognisable to even those wit...

The story of Lee Chang-dong’s artistic career is a fascinating one. He started as a novelist before moving to the medium of film in his late thirties, first as a screenwriter for Korean New Wave director Park K...