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- THE SHAMAN SORCERESS and SURA Awarded in Annecy
- by Pierce Conran / Jul 03, 2020
- 2 Korean Films Receive Jury Distinctions at Top Animation Fest
A pair of Korean films have received jury distinctions at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, the most prestigious event for animated films around the world. AHN Jae-huun’s The Shaman Sorceress (2018) was awarded in the Contrechamp competition section, while JEONG Hae-ji’s Sura was recognized in the Graduation Short Films competitive program.The Shaman Sorceress debuted at the Busan International Film Festival in 2018 and follows the story, adapted from a novel of the same name, of a shaman who lives with her mute daughter. One day her son returns to the family stead after having converted to Christianity. This plunges the family into a conflict over their clashing faiths. The film is the latest from acclaimed animation filmmaker AHN Jae-huun, who participated in Annecy in the main competition with his work Green Days in 2011.JEONG Hae-ji’s Sura, a project from the Korean National University of Arts (K’Arts), follows a high school student and her pregnant friend. The jury awarded the film “for taking on an incandescent subject and making it poetic, personal, subtle and complex.”A total of six Korean films screened in Annecy this year. CHO Kyung-hun’s Beauty Water also screened in the Contrechamp section, PARK Jee-youn’s Ghosts was in the ‘Short Film Competition’, Nausea by HAN Subien also screened in ‘Graduation Short Films in Competition’ and finally MIN Sung-ah’s Boriya (2019) was featured in ‘Young Audiences Short Films in Competition’.The Shaman Sorceress and Sura join a long line of successful Korean films at Annecy. Among them, the Crystal for a Feature Film, the top prize at Annecy, has gone to two Korean films in the past: LEE Sung-gang’s My Beautiful Girl, Mari in 2002 and 2004’s Oseam (2003) by SUNG Baek-yeop.
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