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The 9th Puchon International Film Festival

2005/07/14 | Source | Permalink |

Puchon, Kyonggi Province

Through July 23

The 9th PiFan will show a total of 172 films from 32 countries on nine screens in Puchon until July 23. And the festival will screen "Open Water" and "The Wind Mill Palm Forest" as the closing films.

Directed by Chris Kentis, "Open Water" is a story of two scuba divers stranded in the ocean, and Yoo Sang-wook's "The Wind Mill Palm Forest" is about a young potential lawyer who falls in love with a factory worker.

The festival consists of four main sections _ Puchon Choice, World Fantastic Cinema, Fantastic Short Films, Family Section _ along with six special programs and a retrospective.

In Puchon Choice, the festival's official competition section, nine feature films and nine short films will compete. Various short films from the world will be shown in the Fantastic Short Films section. Tickets: 5,000 to 10,000 won, and for more information, call (032) 345-6313 or visit http://www.pifan.com

Real Fantastic Film Festival 2005
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Rival film fests compete for fantasy buffs

2005/07/01 | Source | Permalink |

Two film festivals dedicated to the fantasy genre - the Puchon International Film Festival and the Real Fantastic Film Festival - will take place on July 14-23 in Seoul and Bucheon, Gyeonggi Province, and online ticket sales for both events start today.

Fantasy films, which embrace bizarre, unrealistic yet highly imaginative themes that often defy conventional classification, have gained popularity in recent years in Korea.

But the audiences remain confused about which film festivals they have to attend, since the Real Fantastic Film Festival has been created by the former staff of PiFan in protest against the problems that allegedly plague the PiFan.

The conflict and rivalry began last year when the PiFan organizing committee abruptly fired festival director Kim Hong-jun, who had led the fantasy-oriented film festival for the past eight years and made efforts to turn the provincial city of Bucheon into a new film festival venue.

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