Finalists Announced for SIYFF

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Finalists Announced for SIYFF

Jun 30, 2014

Writer by June KIM
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16th Seoul International Youth Film Festival Gearing Up

The 16th Seoul International Youth Film Festival (SIYFF) which will run from August 21st to the 28th has announced its finalists for the competition section. The selected works will be playing within Competition 9+, Competition 13+ and Competition 19+ programs. With 142 films from 40 countries, SIYFF aims to bring coming-of-age and youth’s films into the spotlight through its programming.

Opening film will be Scot MCGEHEE and David SIEGL’s What Maisie Knew, a film based on the novella by the same title by Henry James, and the closing film will be the award recipients of the Competition 13+ section, both playing at the Korea University’s Inchon Memorial Hall. Most of the other screenings will take place at the Arirang Cinecenter and the free screenings consisting of Stepping on the Flying Grass, The Zigzag Kid and Don’t Expect Praises will play at the Seongbuk-cheon Baram Madang.

Within 11 works selected for Competition 9+, collective works include Milky Way, Punk is Not Dead, and Mehak Makol’s Facing Separation, and Berta Coller’s Our School at the Middle Our Street will be screened. Within 30 films in Competition 13+, works include NAM Jin-kang’s The Privilege, Magnus Lysbakken’s Treasure, Zakaria Mohammed Taufik’s Scavenge and a collective work called Hypnagogic Hallucination. For Competition 19+, Markus Kaatsch’s No One Pukes in Heaven, Marleen van der Werf’s Once Upon a Tree and Rohin Raveendran’s Little Hands are invited among 22. The full list of finalists is on SIYFF’s blog, at (http://blog.naver.com/siyffmaster/220033293607).

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