When two actors become popular as an on-screen couple, audiences naturally grow attached to the characters they portray and often hope to see that same connection in their future projects, even when the stories and circumstances are entirely different. For Thai actresses Ormsin Supitcha Limsommut and Folk Sutima Korkiatvanich, better known as OrmFolk, the success…
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Jinn and Sky: Ten Years of Friendship, a New Partnership and the Expanding World of Thai Drama – Exclusive Interview
Ten years ago, Jinn and Sky worked together on a Thai television drama, with Sky still a teenager and Jinn already establishing himself in the industry. Neither could have anticipated that they would eventually reunite as the romantic leads of Ocean’s Heart. Their return to the same television set also comes at a fascinating time…
21st London Korean Film Festival: In Conversation with Park Hoon-jung, Director of “Tristes Tropiques”
In Park Hoon-jung‘s films, power rarely changes hands peacefully, and those who have spent their lives serving powerful men often discover that loyalty gives little protection when everything begins to fall apart. His latest crime thriller, Tristes Tropiques (슬픈 열대, 2025), returns to the violent criminal world that has become familiar territory for the South…
21st London Korean Film Festival: “The Accordion Door” (2025) Review
Childhood is often described as a time of discovery, when young people are encouraged to develop their interests and gradually understand what they might want from life, although the reality can be considerably less forgiving for children who grow up believing that their achievements determine how others see them. In his feature directorial debut, The…
21st London Korean Film Festival: In Conversation with Kim Mi-jo, Director of “The Journey to Gyeong-ju” – Exclusive Interview
South Korean filmmaker Kim Mi-jo has never been particularly interested in making life easier for her characters, especially when their experiences raise uncomfortable questions about injustice, family relationships and the ways people respond to suffering. Her first feature, Gull (2020), followed an older woman who, after being sexually assaulted, finds herself fighting not only for…
21st London Korean Film Festival: Lee Jung-eun on Grief, Motherhood and the Difficult Questions Behind “The Journey to Gyeong-ju” – Exclusive Interview
Lee Jung-eun has been acting for more than thirty years, spending much of that time in theatre and taking on smaller screen roles before finally receiving the wider recognition her performances had long deserved. Since her stage debut in 1991, she has built an impressive career in Korean film and television; her performance in Parasite…
21st London Korean Film Festival: “The Journey to Gyeong-ju” Review
For those who have lost someone to a violent crime, the passage of time does not necessarily bring the consolation that others so readily expect, especially when the person responsible has completed their sentence and returned to ordinary life, while the bereaved are left to contend with consequences that no legal judgement can undo. In…
21st London Korean Film Festival: In Conversation With Yoon Ga-eun (Director) and Jang Hye-jin (Actress) of “The World of Love”
From Guest (2011) and Sprout (2013) to The World of Us and The House of Us, Yoon Ga-eun’s films have consistently returned to childhood as a space of emotional intensity rather than innocence. With The World of Love, her third feature, she continues this exploration, but in a more unsettling form. Explaining the origins of…
21st London Korean Film Festival: “The World of Love” Review
Yoon Ga-eun has spent much of her career exploring the lives of children and teenagers, paying attention to the feelings, insecurities and difficult experiences that adults often fail to recognise or take seriously. From her early short films Guest (2011) and Sprout (2013) to her acclaimed features The World of Us and The House of…
“Tazza: The Song of Beelzebub” (2026) Revew
Betrayal is difficult enough to forgive, but when it comes from someone who has known you since childhood, the damage goes far beyond lost trust, especially when years of friendship have concealed a growing resentment neither person wanted to acknowledge. In Choi Kook-hee’s Tazza: The Song of Beelzebub, two childhood friends who once dreamed of…
21st London Korean Film Festival 2026: Korean Cinema in the Spotlight
The London Korean Film Festival returns this November for its 21st edition, bringing together established directors, emerging filmmakers and some of Korean cinema’s most recognisable actors for two weeks of screenings, premieres and conversations. For more than two decades, the London Korean Film Festival (LKFF) has introduced British audiences to the remarkable variety of stories…
The A Festival: Myyu and Chanya on “AI Girl”, Their First Major Roles and Meeting Their European Fans in Paris – Exclusive Interview
Imagine spending most of your time working, keeping to yourself and having little interest in romance, only for a mysterious package to arrive at your door containing a remarkably lifelike robot who looks exactly like the woman of your dreams. That is the rather unusual beginning of AI Girl, the 2026 Thai Girls’ Love romantic…
70th BFI London Film Festival: In Conversation with Mokya Shin, Director of “Easter”
A photograph of a young woman posing in a swimsuit with her friends at Dadaepo beach in the 1980s might not seem important, but for South Korean filmmaker Mokya Shin, it changed the direction of Easter, his first feature documentary. The woman in the photograph was Saekja, now 68, who had spent much of her…
70th BFI London Film Festival: “Easter” Review
Sometimes, a photograph is all that remains of someone’s life, especially when their story was never considered important enough to be written down or remembered by others. Early in Mokya Shin’s Easter, Saekja sits with an old photo album, looking back at a younger version of herself and the women who once occupied that world…
