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10 MINUTES in Running for Cyclo d’Or
 
The Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema is gearing up for its 20th edition next month and has invited a quintet of current and past Korean films to its 2014 lineup. LEE Yong-seung’s 10 Minutes will compete in the festival’s main ‘Faces of Contemporary Asian Cinema’ section. Last year, O Muel’s Jiseul (2012) was awarded the festival’s top prize, the Cyclo d’Or, from the same section.

 

10 Minutes debuted at the 18th Busan Internatioinal Film Festival (BIFF) last October, in the New Currents section. LEE’s debut film was awarded the KNN Movie Award and the FIPRESCI Prize at BIFF. Screening in the Documentary program will be the French-Korean co-production The Voyage of Chang-ho by French cineaste Gabriel Laurent.

 

In order to mark its 20th anniversary, Vesoul is staging some retrospective screenings of some of the landmark Asian films of the last 20 years. Among those that will screen in France are KIM Ki-duk’s Samaritan Girl (2004), which won the Silver Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival, Bong Joon Ho’s Mother (2009), which screened in the Cannes Film Festival’s Un Certain Regard section, and LEE Chang-dong’s Poetry (2010), another Cannes invitee that picked up the Best Screenplay Award in the Main Competition.

 

This year’s Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema will take place over February 11-18.