Jeonju, a city in southwestern Korea, is known for its welcoming people and some of Korea's loveliest surviving pre-modern architecture and folk culture.
Once a year, this city with the heart of a small town gets more cosmopolitan. Around late April or early May, the city hosts the Jeonju International Film Festival, which, by size, is second only to Busan's.
If you are overwhelmed by the Busan International Film Festival and feel that the festival feels somewhat commercial, the Jeonju International Film Festival (JIFF) is just for you.
This year, the 9th Jeonju International Film Festival is set to run from May 1-9, sticking to its principle of favoring digital, independent and art films.
Reflecting its steadily growing influence at home and abroad, a record number of films have been submitted. A total of 1,204 films -- 815 domestic ones and 389 from overseas -- have been submitted. The submission figure is up 16 percent from last year, according to festival organizers.
In particular, the number of international films is up by 36 percent. All Entries will be screened and the final selections will be announced in April.
Officials say their efforts to make the JIFF an alternative venue for aspiring Korean and international filmmakers whose artistic tendencies are not in line with large-scale movies have finally paid off.
A hallmark of the latest edition of this festival is that a growing number of films deal with migrant workers, females, and illegal workers reflecting the growing international interest in human rights.
Another thing to note is that a retrospective exhibition on Alexander Kluge, an influential film director who led the movement of New German Cinema in the 1960s. 20 of his movies will be there for the audience's viewing pleasure includding Artists Under the Big Top (1968) and Yesterday Girl(1966).
Also, the Jeonju festival organizers said that the event this year will be more diversified with the plan to show 12 films from the central Asian region with the theme of "Discovery: Films from 5 Nations in post-Soviet Central Asia". The five nations are Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan.
Every year, the JIFF showcases three filmmakers and this year, Africa is also getting more attention, as three prominent filmmakers from the continent will join the festival.
They are Idrisa Ouedraogo (Burkina Faso), Mahamat-Saleh Haroun (Chad), and Nacer Khemir (Tunisia).
For further information, call (063)-288-5433 or visit the festival's official website at Open the link
By Han Aran
Korea.net Staff Writer
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