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​ The 16th Seoul International PRIDE Film Festival , led by Festival Director Kim Jho Kwang-soo, hosted a series of sold-out screenings of headline films, along with an international co-production forum, a Pride Ball, an HIV/AIDS/PrEP forum and more than 20 audience Q&As.

From award-winning films at prestigious international festivals to digitally restored Korean classics The 16th Seoul International Pride Film Festival, the largest international LGBTQ+ film festival in South Korea, will be held Nov. 5-11 at CGV Piccadilly 1958 in Seoul.

PRIDE is a symbolic word that expresses the self-esteem of sexual minorities and encompasses all LGBTQIA+ people. A showcase of solidarity that brings some of the world’s best queer films to Korean audiences, the 16th Seoul International PRIDE Film Festival begins ticket sales at 4 p. m.

A women’s bathhouse. Perhaps it’s a familiar, ordinary place for most women. The camera is set up, the lights come on, and filming begins. Water—whether sweat or tears, it’s hard to tell—runs down the face of a woman in the bath.

※ Continued from the first article on picks from the 16th Seoul International PRIDE Film Festival. The Seoul International PRIDE Film Festival’s “Asia Pride” section is a chance to discover a diverse range of queer films made in Asia.

I get hooked on the music in films. Music often reveals intimate emotions a picture or dialogue alone cannot convey. It can become a window into a creator's hidden intent. For me, listening to a film's music is one way to get closer to what the film is doing.

A film industry's paradigm shift for what's next — BIFAN's take on genre upheaval and an AI revolution The 30th edition of the Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival — where the imaginations of 321 films from 50 countries across the world collided — has finally unveiled the faces set to...

Marking its 30th anniversary this year, the Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival will be held from July 2 to July 12 around Bucheon City Hall. As South Korea’s only fantastic genre film festival, BIFAN again presents works armed with genre playfulness and a bold experimental spirit.

“Gibeu aen teikeu, ssinyeonbara!” Lines such as “My child’s father is extremely angry,” “School Rights Protection Bureau inspector! I’m Im Han-lim—!” and the stammering “Ju-, ju-, ju-, a juvenile offender” spawned countless memes from 〈Teach You a Lesson〉, but there’s one moment that should have...

The aftershocks of the masterfully crafted masterpiece chosen by the Cannes Film Festival are rippling beyond the screen, creating a seismic shift in the publishing world. The ‘Bring Me to the Back Seat Original Novel’, released through official channels in South Korea on the 15th, regained...