Korean Movies at Virtual Festivals and Virtual Releases

Published on 2020/06/20

Korean Movies at Virtual Festivals and Virtual Releases and ways to watch Korean movies.

15-30 June
Annecy International Animation Film Festival
https://www.annecy.org/home
Viewing platform: https://annecy.codekraft.fr
Price: €15 (around U.S. $17 or U.K. £13.50)

South Korean productions selected for this year's festival:
https://www.annecy.org/programme/index:film-20203146
https://www.annecy.org/programme/index:film-20203143
https://www.annecy.org/programme/index:film-20202023
https://www.annecy.org/programme/index:film-20201223
https://www.annecy.org/programme/index:film-20202119
https://www.annecy.org/programme/index:film-20200210

Due to licensing restrictions, only a 13-minute extract of the feature "Beauty Water" is included in the online festival. But the feature "The Shaman Sorceress" and all shorts are available in full worldwide.

26 June - 4 July
Udine Far East Film Festival
https://www.fareastfilm.com/eng/
Title list: https://www.fareastfilm.com/Archivi/FEFJ/Files/All%20The%20Films%20at%20A%20Glance%20-%202020%20-%20online.pdf
Price: €9.90 (around U.S. $11.50 or U.K. £9)

11 South Korean productions have been selected for the festival (10 new productions and one remastered classic) and, out of them, four will be available outside Italy:
"Ashfall" (2019) - International Festival Premiere (available throughout Europe)
"The House of Us" (2019) (available throughout Europe)
"Vertigo" (2019) (available throughout Europe)
"Crazy Romance" (2020) - World Festival Premiere (available worldwide)
"The Closet" (2020)
"The Man Standing Next" (2019)
"KIM Jiyoung: Born 1982" (2019)
"Beasts Clawing at Straws" (2018)
"Exit - Movie" (2019)
"Lucky Chan-sil" (2019)
"The President's Last Bang" (2005)

Movies can ve atched online here: mymovies.it

While in the U.S. and Canada specifically, Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas are running a curated video on demand season while they're not able to operate as cinemas, and it too includes many South Korean movies.

Alamo on Demand
https://ondemand.drafthouse.com
Title list: https://ondemand.drafthouse.com/collection/all/

The South Korean productions currently available on the service are:
"Barking Dogs Never Bite" (2000)
"The Host" (2007)
"TOKYO!" (2008)
"Mother - 2009" (2009)
"Bedevilled" (2010)
"I Saw the Devil" (2010)
"The Man From Nowhere" (2010)
"Pieta" (2012)
"Train to Busan" (2016)
"The Wailing" (2016)
"Burning" (2019)
"Parasite" (2019)

Finally, U.S. distributor Well Go USA Entertainment is giving "House of Hummingbird" a virtual cinema release in Northern America on 26 June 2020 and releasing "Peninsula" in actual cinemas later in the year.

http://www.wellgousa.com/films/house-of-hummingbird
http://www.wellgousa.com/films/train-to-busan-presents-peninsula