Korean Films on Show in Dublin
Next month, the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival will kick off once again in Ireland on the 19th, presenting an eclectic program of global cinema. Among this year’s lineup, a pair of Korean films, both festival favorites, will feature among the lineup,
July JUNG’s
A Girl at My Door and György Pálfi’s
Free Fall.
A debut film by JUNG which was produced
LEE Chang-dong,
A Girl at My Door stars
BAE Doo-na,
KIM Sae-ron and
SONG Sae-byeok and premiered in the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival last year. It has since gone on to screen at numerous events to great acclaim, including in Busan, London, Melbourne and in Stockholm, where it picked up the prize for Best First Film.
From the Hungarian filmmaker behind
Taxidermia (2006),
Free Fall was one of last year’s Jeonju Digital Projects, the first year that the film festival commissioned feature-length works. The others were
SHIN Yeon-shick’s
The Avian Kind and
PARK Jung-bum’s
Alive. Pálfi’s film features a series of vignettes that take place in an apartment block as an elderly woman walks back up to her home after falling out of the window.
The Jameson Dublin International Film Festival will conclude on March 29th.