HAN GONG-JU to Compete in Rotterdam

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HAN GONG-JU to Compete in Rotterdam

Jan 13, 2014

Writer by Pierce Conran
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LEE Su-jin’s debut feature Han Gong-ju has been selected to take part in this year’s Tiger Awards Competition at the upcoming 43rd International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR). It is the only Korean film in competition this year.

In the film, a young girl is forced to move schools following a terrible incident. Though she tries to keep to herself, it isn’t long before her past catches up with her. Han Gong-ju debuted at the 18th Busan International Film Festival last October, where it won the CGV Movie Collage Award and the Citizen Reviewers’ Award. The film had its international premiere at the Marrakech International Film Festival, during it won the Golden Star, the event’s top prize.

IFFR’s Tiger Award is no stranger to Korean cinema as four films from the peninsula have won the prize over the last 17 years. HONG Sangsoo’s debut The Day a Pig Fell into the Well was the first Korean film to win the award back in 1997. It was followed by PARK Chan-ok’s Jealousy Is My Middle Name in 2003 and YANG Ik-june’s Breathless in 2009. PARK Jung-bum’s The Journals of Musan was the most recent Korean film to take the accolade back in 2011.

Han Gong-ju is to second film to be announced for this year’s IFFR, following NOH Young-seok’s ‘Bright Future’ invitation for his sophomore film Intruders. The Rotterdam Film Festival will stage its 2014 edition over January 22nd to February 2nd.

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