NEW WORLD Invited to Cleveland

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NEW WORLD Invited to Cleveland

Mar 03, 2014

Writer by Pierce Conran
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Korean Shorts on Show in Tampere

PARK Hoon-jung’s popular gangster epic New Word has been invited to the 38th Cleveland International Film Festival (CIFF) along with the short Hu’s Game.

Screening in the ‘Pacific Pearls’ section, New World, which stars LEE Jung-jae, CHOI Min-sik and HWANG Jung-min, became a hit when it was released in Korea early last year, accruing almost 4.7 million admissions. The film has racked up 15 festival invitations, picking up awards at Best Feature Film in Focus Asia at the Sitges International Film Festival and the Jury Prize from the Beaune Thriller International Film Festival.

The animated short Hu’s Game, by director KIM Sung-young, will appear in a ‘Family Shorts Program’ in Cleveland. KIM’s film previously screened at the Warsaw International Film Festival among others. CIFF will unspool from March 19-30.

Meanwhile the Tampere Film Festival in Finland has invited a pair of Korean shorts, SEONG Joon-su’s Haegeumni is an animation about a young girl who finds herself uprooted from her affluent lifestyle in Pyongyang. Also invited is KANG Jung-soo’s Going to Military Service. The Tampere Film Festival will take place from March 5th to 9th.

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