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The Jeonju International Film Festival (JIFF), scheduled to run from April 28 to May 6, has unveiled the lineup for its 2005 edition. Opening the event will be the premiere of the JIFF-commissioned Digital Short Filmsby Three Filmmakers omnibus project. The film is made up of Japanese director Shinya TSUKAMOTO's Haze (25min.), Korean director SONG Il-gon's Magician(s) (40min.), and Thai director Apichatpong WEERASETHAKUL's Worldly Desires (30min.). Meanwhile the closing film will be Korean director YIM Phil-sung's eagerly anticipated debut film Antarctic Journal starring SONG Kang-ho and YU Ji-tae. Shot in New Zealand, the film tells the story of an Antarctic expedition that has a run-in with the supernatural. The festival will feature two international competition sections: the Indie Vision section for independent films, composed of ten features; and the Digital Spectrum section devoted to digital films, which will contain 12 titles. Each section will be judged by a three member jury: Russian critic Andrei PLAKHOV, US filmmaker David Gordon GREEN, and Korean director HONG Ki-seon for Indie Vision and Kurdish director Bahman Ghobadi, UK film/art critic Eddie BERG, and Korean artist PARK Chan-kyong for Digital Spectrum. The festival will also screen a large number of Korean digital features in the Korean Cinema on the Move section, including SONG Il-gon's Feathers in the Wind (Git) and the second installment of human rights omnibus film If You Were Me, with segments by KIM Dong-won, RYOO Seung-wan, PARK Kyoung-hee, JANG Jin, and JUNG Ji-woo. Other sections include a retrospective of Japanese director Shinji SOMAI; a focus on Maghreb Cinema from Morocco and Tunisia; and aspecial screening of four colonial-era Korean films that were recently re-discovered by the Korean Film Archive. For a complete lineup and more information, visit the festival's website at http://www.jiff.or.kr.

Darcy Paquet