Yeon Woo-jin is one of South Korea’s most versatile and compelling actors. Rising from a background in modeling to presence on screen, Yeon’s early recognition came with his role in Arang and the Magistrate (2012), which earned him a Best New Actor nomination. Since then, he has consistently demonstrated an ability to inhabit a wide…
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38th BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival – “Two Suns” Review
Even as we advance in technology and are able to capture image in a crisp 4k imitation of reality, directors across the world are still drooling at the imperfect, gritty charm of shooting on film. Digital is too real, too honest, and too faultless. Two Suns is a short directed (and starred in) by Yuqing…
The 58th BFI London Film Festival: Rosewater Review
The 2009 Iranian elections saw a controversial win by leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad over public favourite Mir-Hossein Mousavi which sparked protests in the streets of Iran. Working on behalf of Newsweek, Maziar Bahari travelled to Iran to report on the elections and was soon swept up in the turmoil. After filming and showing the horrors of…
VIEW OF THE ARTS 