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.

The Bright Future section will include PARK Jung-bum’s second feature film, Alive. Bright Future will also include the international premiere of LEE Kwang-kuk’s A Matter of Interpretation and the European premiere of KIM Tae-yong’s Set Me Free.

The Korea-France co-production film by ROH Gyeong-tae, Black Stone, was selected for the Spectrum program, as well as JANG Kun-jae’s Korea-Japan co-production, A Midsummer’s Fantasia.

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.