Political Drama Wins Golden and Black Mulberry Awards in Italy
The jam-packed 20th edition of the Far East Film Festival in Udine (FEFF) wound to a close on April 28 as it handed out its awards for the year, which skewed heavily towards Korean films. The big winner of the fest was
JANG Joon-hwan’s political drama
1987: When the Day Comes (2017), which picked up the first place of the Golden Mulberry Award, voted on by all audience members, as well as the Black Mulberry Award, voted on by the Black Dragon pass holders.
The Golden Mulberry Prizes are awarded to the top three highest-scoring films of the festival. Beyond
1987: When the Day Comes in the first place, the director’s cut of
RYOO Seung-wan’s period prison escape drama
The Battleship Island (2017) won the third place Golden Mulberry Prize. Second place went to UEDA Shinichiro’s zombie
One Cut for the Dead from Japan.
All told, 14 Korean films were screened in Udine this year, including
YANG Woo-suk’s North Korean action-dram
Steel Rain (2017), which served as the opening film.