Fribourg International Film Festival Line-up Announced

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Fribourg International Film Festival Line-up Announced

Mar 10, 2015

Writer by June Kim
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FIFF Takes Five Korean Flicks

Fribourg International Film Festival (FIFF), a celebration that introduces multicultural films from Asia, Africa and Latin America in Switzerland, is set to have its 29th festival from March 21st until the 28th. Last year alone, the festival brought in over 35,000 viewers around the globe and screened a total of 126 features and shorts. This year, five Korean films were chosen as a part of their programming.

The only film in International Competition section is July JUNG’s A Girl at My Door. This drama, which stars BAE Doo-na and KIM Sae-ron, puts a light on many contemporary social issues facing Korea today. The film had previously gone to major international film festivals such as Cannes and Toronto, among many others.

In the Midnight Screenings category are SHIM Sung-bo’s Haemoo and the Jeonju Cinema Project (previously called Jeonju Digital Project) film, György Pálfi’s Free Fall. Haemoo looks at the smuggling of Chinese-Koreans that goes very wrong in a suspenseful and psychological distortion at sea. Free Fall, which is a co-production between France, Hungary and Korea, features a series of vignettes that take place in an apartment block as an elderly woman drops from the seventh floor.

Looking at examples of the “most beautiful and shocking recent productions,” FIFF selected YIM Pil-sung’s Scarlet Innocence and BONG Man-dae’s Playboy Bong for Genre Cinema: Terra Erotica I. Lustful revenge thriller Scarlet Innocence brought about a new performance from one of Korea’s long-time favorite performers, JUNG Woo-sung. Playboy Bong is an interesting addition to the invitation for Scarlet Innocence. The erotic satire is about a director named BONG Man-dae who is called to help out when director YIM Pil-sung has a hard time filming the sex scenes in a new erotic horror film, ‘Beach of Madness’.

Last year, LEE Su-jin’s Han Gong-ju won the festival’s top prize, le Regard d’or.

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