Discover the Hidden Gems of Jeonju International Film Festival 2026: Must-See Films and Directors

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The 27th Jeonju International Film Festival has announced the lineup for its Cinephile Jeonju section and the festival’s Guest Cinephile program.

Cinephile Jeonju is curated for audiences interested in film history. This year’s slate features 15 titles, ranging from lesser-known genre work by acclaimed directors to documentaries that use the past to illuminate the present.

Highlights include Mamoru Oshii’s first live-action feature, Red Spectacles; Michael Almereyda’s Naja, a contemporary reimagining of the vampire myth; and Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Do What You Want!!: Hero Project.

Nicholas Roeg’s horror Don’t Look Now, Yervant Zanikian’s Angela’s Diary — Two Directors: Chapter 3, and Mike Figgis’s Megadog are also expected to capture audience attention.

Mariano Jinas’s Strange Stories, which premiered at Jeonju 16 years ago, returns to Korean audiences after a digital remaster.

The program also includes two documentaries that reflect on the present through the past: Santiago Sein’s All You Need to Make a Movie Is a Gun and Alan Berliner’s Benita.

Hayden Guest, director of the Harvard Film Archive, returns as a programming partner this year. The Harvard Film Archive and the Jeonju International Film Festival will continue their fourth consecutive year of collaboration with screenings of 16mm and 35mm prints.

The festival has retained the Guest Cinephile mini-section introduced in 2023.

To mark the 100th birthday of Spanish auteur Pere Portabella, Jeonju will present five films he directed and produced — three features and two shorts — under “Guest Cinephile: Pere Portabella.”

Programmer Moon Seong-gyeong said, “This year’s Cinephile Jeonju feels vibrant and rich, much like film history itself. A deep look into the past reveals a great deal about the present.”