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This year, the biggest film festival in North America placed a special importance on Korea. Korean Film Council (KOFIC) joined the celebration as Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) selected films from Seoul to showcase through its City to City program at its 39th annual film festival which was held from September 4 to 14th.TIFF boasts its selection of diverse films each year and this year, it programmed 393 films from 79countries with 8 films in the City to City program, with a total of 14 Korean films through out.

The City to City program which selected 8 titles include A Dream of Iron by Kelvin Kyung Kun PARK, Alive by PARK Jung-bum, Confession by LEE Do-yun, Gyeongju by ZHANG Lu, world premieres of Cart by BOO Ji-young and Scarlet Innocence by YIM Pil-sung, and Cannes titles A Girl at My Door by July JUNG and A Hard Day by KIM Seong-hun. All City to City directors were in attendance except for ZHANG Lu.

Aside from City to City titles, SHIM Sung-bo directed and BONG Joon Ho produced naval thriller, Haemoo played as the Gala Presentation, while the Masters Program invited familiar auteurs’ works such as IM Kwon-taek’s Revivre and Hong Sang-soo’s Hill of Freedom. In the Wavelengths section which focuses on more artistic and experimental films, YOO Soon-mi’s Songs from the North, a South Korea-Portugal-USA co-production, was selected along with a short by KIM Kyung-man called Beep, both of which deal with political content. In addition, the Discovery program where works of new up and coming directors are presented, Albert SHIN’s In Her Place, a Canadian-Korean co-production took up a slot.