Knock
Winning four big prizes at BIFAN, Jeong Beom’s ‘Knock’ thrives on a powerful premise and thumping performances, but spirals towards stylistic incoherence at the end.
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Longtake Onetake Mistake
Self-avowed no-budget specialist and indie director Baek Seung-kee mixes absurd comedy, kitschily convincing AI-generated sequences and earnest commentary about the state of cinema in ‘Longtake Onetake Mistake’.
Something Hard, Something Strange: BIFAN hits 30
As the Bucheon International Fantasy Film Festival turns 30, its new Korean Cinema programmer Kim Hyung-seok explains why “the divide between art films and genre films is ultimately artificial”.
The Calf Doll
Revolving around an old teacher-turned-farmer’s doomed attempts to make his cow give milk, Ankur Hooda’s ‘The Calf Doll’ is a canny combination of aesthetics, atmosphere and subtle social analysis.