Jeonju International Film Festival
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The Jeonju International Film Festival (JIFF, Korean: 전주국제영화제, Hanja: 全州國際映畵祭) has been held annually since 2000 in Jeonju, South Korea, focusing on digital, independent and art films.
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[edit] History
[edit] 2000
- April 28-May 4: 184 films from 21 countries
- Opening Film: Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Hong Sang-soo, Korea
- Closing Film: M/OTHER, Nobuhiro Suwa, Japan
- Woosuk Award (Asian Indie-Cine Forum): M/OTHER, Nobuhiro Suwa, Japan
- Daring Digital Award (N-Vision): Riot, John Akomfrah, UK
- Jeonju People's Award (Cinemascape): Audition, Takashi Miike, Japan
- Jeonju Korean Shorts Award: Scissors, Lee Ki-cheol, Korea
[edit] 2001
- April 27-May 3: 202 films from 28 countries
- Opening Film: Waikiki Brothers, Im Sun-rye, Korea
- Closing Film: This Is My Moon, Asoka Handagama, Sri Lanka
- Woosuk Award (Asian Indie-Cine Forum):
- Mysterious Object at Noon, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand
- This Is My Moon, Asoka Handagama, Sri Lanka
- Daring Digital Award (N-Vision):
- About Pleasure and Hysteria-the Sexual Life of the Belgians, part IV, Jan Bucquoy, Belgium
- Once & Future Queen, Todd Verow, USA
- Special Mention: The Cutting, Peter Missotten and Bram Smeyers, Belgium
- Jeonju People's Award (Cinemascape): Beijing Bicycle, Wang Xiaoshuai, China, Taiwan
- Jeonju Korean Shorts Award: Noonday, Jang Myung-sook, Korea
[edit] 2002
- April 26-May 2: 266 films from 32 countries
- Opening Film: KT, Junji Sakamoto, Korea)
- Closing Film: Brother, Yan Yan Mak, Hong Kong
- Woosuk Award: Brother, Yan Yan Mak, Hong Kong
- Daring Digital Award: Angel Exit, Vladimír Michálek, Czech Republic
- JIFF Favorites Award: Spirited Away, Hayao Miyazaki, Japan
[edit] 2003
- April 25-May 4: 170 films from 30 countries
- Opening Film: If You Were Me, Park Kwang-su, Park Jin-pyo, Park Chan-wuk, Yeo Kyun-dong, Yim Soon-rye, Korea
- Closing Film: Far From Heaven, Todd Haynes, USA
- Woosuk Award: Emtehan (Exam), Nasser Refaie, Iran
- Daring Digital Award: ½ the rent (½ Miete), Marc Ottiker, Germany
- JIFF Favorites Award: Spider, David Cronenberg, Canada
[edit] 2004
- April 23-May 2: 286 films from 30 countries
- Opening Film: Possible Changes, Min Byoung-kook, Korea
- Closing Film: November, Achero Manas, Spain
- Woosuk Award (Asian Indie-Cine Forum):
- Silence between Two Thoughts, Babak Payami, Iran
- Special Mention: Min, Ho Yuhang, Malaysia
- Daring Digital Award:
- Suite Havana, Fernanado Perez, Cuba
- Special Mention: Sexual Dependency, Rodrigo Bellott, Bulgaria
- JIFF Favorites Award: Coffee and Cigarettes, Jim Jarmusch, USA
[edit] 2005
- April 28-May 6: 170 films from 30 countries
- Opening Film: Digital Short Films by Three Filmmakers 2005, Shinya Tsukamoto, Song Il-gon, Apichatpong Weerasethakul
- Closing Film: Antarctic Journal, Yim Phil-sung, Korea
- Woosuk Award (Indie Vision):
- Harvest Time, Marina Razbezhkina, Russia
- Special Mention: I, Caludia, Chris Abraham, Canada
- JJ-Star Award (Digital Spectrum):
- Czech Dream, Vít Klusák, Filip Remunda, Czech Republic
- Oxhide, Liu Jia Yin, China
- JIFF Favorites Award (Cinemascape/Cinema Palace): The Butterfly, Philippe Muyl, France
- Audience Critics' Award:
- The Gate of Truth, Kim Hee-chul, Korea
- Special Mention: Five is Too Many, Ahn Seul-ki, Korea
[edit] 2006
- April 27-May 5
- Opening Film: Offside, Jafar Panahi, Iran.
- Closing Film: Don't Look Back, Kim Young-nam, South Korea
- Woosuk Award (Indie Vision):
- JJ-Star Award (Digital Spectrum):
- Stories from the North, Uruphong Raksasad, Thailand
- Special Comment:
- The White She-Camel, Xavier Christiaens, Belgium
- 11,000km from New York, Orzu Sharipov, Tajikistan
- JIFF Favorites Award (Cinemascape/Cinema Palace):
- Audience Critics Award (Korean Cinema on the Move):
- Shocking Family, Kyung soon, South Korea
- CGV Korean Independent Feature Film Distribution Support Award:
- Between, Lee Chang-jae, South Korea
[edit] 2007
- April 26-May 4: 185 films from 37 countries
- Opening film: Off Road, Han Seung-ryong
- Closing film: Exiled, Johnnie To
[edit] 2008
- May 1-May 9: 195 films from approximately 40 countries
- Opening film: THE KISS, Manda Kunitoshi
- Closing film: If You Were Me 4, Bang Eun-jin, Jeon Gye-soo
[edit] Digital Short Films by Three Filmmakers
Each year, the Jeonju International Film Festival commissions three filmmakers to produce digital short films to be shown at the festival. Each filmmaker gets $50,000 to make their film. In past years, the Digital Short Films have included:
- 2000 - www.whitelover.com, Park Kwang-su; Dal Segno, Kim Yun-tae; Jin Xing Files, Zhang Yuan
- 2001 - In Public, Jia Zhangke; Digitopia, John Akomfrah; A Conversation with God, Tsai Ming-liang
- 2004 - Influenza, Bong Joon-ho; Mirrored Mind, Sogo Ishii; Dance with Me to the End of Love, Yu Lik-wai
- 2005 - Haze, Shinya Tsukamoto; Magician(s), Song Il-gon; Worldly Desires, Apichatpong Weerasethakul
- 2006 - No Day Off, Eric Khoo; About Love, Darezhan Omirbaev; Twelve Twenty, Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
- 2007 - The Rabbit Hunters, Pedro Costa; Respite, Harun Farocki; Correspondences, Eugène Green