From Shorts, Documentaries and Features to Retrospective
At the 44th International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), 20 Korean films will be screened, making it a big year for Korean cinema.
The only Korean short invited to the festival is CHO Seoung-ho’s B.1 which intimately studies the male body. This short will have its world premiere in the As Long As It Takes: Short program.
Concerning socially conscious works,
BOO Ji-young’s film about temporary supermarket workers,
Cart, was invited to screen in the What the F?! program, while
KIM Dong-hoo’s
Made in China will play in Everyday Propaganda.
Finally, the
Jang Jin Signals section is a retrospective that encompasses 12 signature works from the writer-director’s filmography ranging from the mid-1990s to last year. Nine are films that JANG directed, while the rest were either written or produced by him. The films in chronological order are
A Hot Roof (1995),
Guns and Talks (2001),
Murder, Take One (2005),
Welcome to Dongmakgol (2005),
Righteous Ties (2006),
Someone Grateful (2005),
My Son (2007),
The Quiz Show Scandal (2010),
The Recipe (2009),
Romantic Heaven (2011),
Man on High Heels and
We Are Brothers.
The festival opens on January 21st and will close on February 1st.