12th Florence Korean Film Fest Screens Over 30 Features

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Includes Special Retrospective CHOI Min-sik

The longest running celebration of Korean cinema in Europe, the Florence Korean Film Festival is now in its 12th year. The festival kicked off last Friday (March 21st) with a screening of opening film Hide and Seek, with director HUH Jung in attendance. The hit thriller also served as the opening film for the London Korean Film Festival last November.

Over 30 features are peppered throughout the program this year, which includes current commercial and indie flims, various classic works and an eight films retrospective dedicated to actor CHOI Min-sik.

Among festival favorites, LEE Su-jin’s Han Gong-ju, YEON Sangho’s The Fake, NOH Young-seok’s Intruders, KIM Ki-duk’s Moebius and HONG Sangsoo’s Our Sunhi will all be screened. Commercial favorites include Bong Joon Ho’s Snowpiercer and JANG Cheol-su’s Secretly Greatly.

The sidebar on CHOI Min-sik, who will be present in Florence, stretches from SONG Hae-sung’s Failan (2001) and IM Kwon-taek’s Chihwaseon (2002) all the way to last year’s New World from director PARK Hoon-jung.

Late night screenings will feature horror and strong genre films such as LEE Yong-ju’s Possessed (2009), the omnibus Horror Stories 2, JANG Cheol-su’s Bedevilled (2010) and KIM Jee-woon’s I Saw the Devil.

Closing the festival on March 30th will be a screening of SONG Hae-sung’s family dramedy Boomerang Family.

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