- Korean Film News
- 11 Korean Films Invited to Vancouver
- by Pierce Conran / Sep 07, 2015
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The 34th Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF) announced its full lineup last week, which will include 11 Korean films, 10 of which will screen in the ‘Dragons & Tigers’ sidebar, curated by Asian film critic Tony Rayns.Among the independent films screening in ‘Dragons & Tigers’ will be AHN Gooc-jin’s Korean Academy of Film Arts (KAFA) feature project Alice in Earnestland, following a strong limited run in Korea and its Best Korean Film prize from the Jeonju International Film Festival (awarded by a jury that included Rayns), LEE Kwang-kuk’s sophomore feature A Matter of Interpretation, Korea-Japan project A Midsummer’s Fantasia from JANG Kun-jae (who won the Dragons & Tigers Award for Young Cinema with his debut Eighteen in 2009), ZHANG Lu’s four-chapter Love and…, HONG Sang-soo’s Right Now, Wrong Then (fresh from its Golden Leopard win at the Locarno International Film Festival), and PARK Kiyong’s documentary Yanji.Well-regarded commercial fare such as LEE Won-suk’s period drama The Royal Tailor, KWAK Kyung-taek's kidnap thriller The Classified File and KIM Gwang-tae’s Brothers Grimm update The Piper will also feature in the section. KIM Na-kyung’s short Greed: Ghost Light is also on the docket, while Benjamin Naishtat’s El Movimiento, an Argentina-Korea co-production that was one of this year’s Jeonju Cinema Projects, will screen in the ‘Cinema of Our Time’ section.This year’s VIFF will take place over September 24th to October 9th.
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