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Lyons international Lumiere film festival is fast making quite a name for itself as the celebration of all things and people that make the cinema such an engrossing event every time the lights go down.

Cinephiles rejoice! The 2022 Lumière Festival kicks off in Lyon this coming weekend, from Saturday 15 - Sunday 23 October, and this year’s vintage looks mighty good.

The Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) will be back for its 27th edition on Oct 5, returning to full strength after a couple of hybrid events held during the earlier stages of the coronavirus pandemic. With a broad programme featuring 243 films from 71 countries, the festival will once again put on a full roster of physical screenings and host...

Watch some of the best and most popular Korean movies of 2022, from dramas, thrillers, horror movies and more. Titles include 'Parasite,' 'Poetry' and 'Minari.'

Ahead of this year’s Cannes Film Festival, we recommend five films by Lee Chang-dong – a director who helped put Korean cinema on a global stage

Jeonju International Film Festival highlights auteur Lee Chang-dongs universe

Jeonju International Film Festival highlights auteur Lee Chang-dongs universe

2/5 stars Sluggish, predictable and almost wilfully devoid of thrills, South Korean action drama Yaksha: Ruthless Operations offers none of the unpredictable or mischievous antics teased by its curious title. Sol Kyung-gu (The Book of Fish) and Park Hae-soo (Squid Game) fail to conjure an ounce of crackling camaraderie as the mismatched partners thrown together in this jet-setting spy caper,...

A merciless leader of an overseas black ops team dives into a land teeming with spies for a risky mission in the upcoming South Korean action movie

Actor Lee Sun-kyun recently appeared in "Kingmaker" over the Lunar New Year holiday, a political thriller based in part on the political career of South Korean president Kim Dae-jung. Lee Sun-kyun has spoken in a recent interview about how nervous he was about the ripped from the headlines nature of the story. Yet he still wanted to take the role, as Lee Sun-kyun was fascinated by the behind-the-scenes depiction of political power and thought viewers would be interested in that, Kingm...