Part of MKC's coverage of the 25th Busan International Film Festival. By Pierce Conran I’ll admit I went into Self-Portrait 2020 with a...

Part of MKC's coverage of the 25th Busan International Film Festival. By Pierce Conran Sometimes all you need is a beat and a rhyme. Bas...

Part of MKC's coverage of the 25th Busan International Film Festival. By Pierce Conran After opening the festival in 2018 with Beautiful...

Part of MKC's coverage of the 25th Busan International Film Festival. By Pierce Conran Documentary filmmaker Park Hyuck-jee, known for t...

Part of MKC's coverage of the 25th Busan International Film Festival. By Pierce Conran Three years after his abrasive debut Park Hwa-you...

By Pierce Conran Ten years after her feature debut What Are We Waiting For? , documentarian Kim Hyun-kung returns with an intimate fi...

By Pierce Conran One of the more high profile among the many China-Korea collaborations of the last few years (prior to the THAAD-rela...

By Pierce Conran The last few BIFFs have each afforded us one great documentary ( Non-Fiction Diary , Factory Complex ), and 2015 prov...

By Pierce Conran Three years after his debut Over and Over Again , director Kim Byung-june returned to Busan with a much livelier effo...

By Pierce Conran Busan-set family melodrama Home doesn't stray from stock themes of Korean dramas yet its endearing young cast and ...

By Pierce Conran Much like her debut The Uninvited , Lee Soo-yeon's latest film Bluebeard teases a dark genre storyline before turn...

By Pierce Conran Ko Eun-ki's sixth film Taklamakan , takes its name from a red desert in China which, as legend maintains, won't...

By Pierce Conran 20 years after his debut Motel Cactus , Park Ki-yong returns with his 8th feature Old Joy , a contemplative work that...

By Pierce Conran Writer-director Shin Yeon-shick returns to Busan for the fifth time with Romans 8:37 , a thoughtful if not exactly thou...

By Pierce Conran It's been a full 12 years since director Jeong Jae-eun helmed a narrative feature and the Japan-set Butterfly Sleep...

By Pierce Conran Among the dozens of local indie films that wind up at the Busan International Film Festival every year, a number tend t...

By Pierce Conran Bang Eun-jin scales things down significantly for her fourth work, the theater world forbidden love story Method . Lack...

By Pierce Conran Perhaps the most impressive Korean debut at Busan this year, the thoughtful and entertaining Microhabitat is a convinc...

By Pierce Conran Indie filmmaker O Muel has been churning out films for around a decade on his native Jeju Island, which each explore th...

By Pierce Conran Grief and guilt get a thorough review in Shin Dong-seok's debut film Last Child , one of three Korean films competi...