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New York Korean Film Festival this August

The seventh edition of the New York Korean Film Festival is set to run August 22 – 31. Sponsored by KOFIC and The Korea Society, the event will screen more than 15 recent Korean features, of which 14 have been finalized for the line-up.

Highlights include one of the top-grossing Korean films of 2008, "Forever the Moment", a sports-redemption-themed film directed by Lim Soon-rye and starring Moon So-ri and Kim Jeong-eun. Other 2008 releases in the line-up are "Hellcats" by Kwon Chil-in, "Once Upon a Time" by Jeong Yong-ki, "Open City" by Lee Sang-gi, "Spare" by Lee Seong-han, and the Korea-Japanese co-production "Virgin Snow" starring Lee Joon-ki and Aoi Miyazaki.

Films in the program from 2007 include such high-profile films as the Chosun-set popular tale, "Hwangjin-y - Movie - 2007", starring Song Hye-kyo, the Kwang-ju-set historical tragedy, May 18th, a Chosun-set tale of high stakes cooking, "Le Grand Chef", and Daniel Henney vehicle and tear-jerker, "My Father".

Other notable films in the program are art-house independent feature "With a Girl of Black Soil" by Jeon Soo-il, innovative horror, "Epitaph" by the JEONG brothers (Jeong Beom-sik, Jeong Sik), "a Love" by Kwak Gyeong-taek, and "Going by the Book" by Ra Hee-chan.

Nigel D'Sa (KOFIC)

Source : www.koreanfilm.or.kr... (

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Related movies/dramas

Spare (스페어 - 2008)	Once Upon a Time (원스 어폰 어 타임 - 2008)
Hellcats (뜨거운 것이 좋아 - 2007)	Forever the Moment (우리 생애 최고의 순간 - 2007)
Open City (무방비 도시 - 2007)	With a Girl of Black Soil (검은 땅의 소녀와 - 2007)
Virgin Snow (첫눈 (初雪の恋) - 2007)	Le Grand Chef (식객 - 2007)
Going by the Book (바르게 살자 - 2007)	a LOVE (사랑 - 2007)
My Father (마이 파더 - 2007)	Epitaph (기담 (奇談) - 2007)
Hwangjin-y - Movie - 2007 (황진이 - 2007)

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