On Friday, July 7th, the 27th Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival announced the winners of this year's feature competition section during the closing ceremony at the 500 plus seats Main Theater inside Bucheon City Hall. The ceremony was followed by the screening of the festival's closing film “Sana” by Japanese horror master Shimizu Takashi, a world premiere.
Bucheon Choice: Features
Best of Bucheon Krw – 20,000,000
Sorcery by Christopher Murray
Best Director Choice – Krw 5,000,000
Superposition by Karoline Lyngbye
Jury's Choice – Krw 5,000,000
The Artifice Girl by Franklin Ritch
Audience Award
The Artifice Girl by Franklin Ritch
Korean Fantastic: Features
Best Korean Fantastic Film – 20,000,000
Iron Mask by Kim Sung Hwan
Film Review: Iron Mask (2023) by Kim Sung-hwan
Korean Fantastic Best Director – Krw 5,000,000
Risk Society by Kim Byung Jun
Film Review: Risk Society (2023) by Kim Byung-jun
Korean Fantastic Actors:
Jung E-seo in Her Hobby
Jang Seongbeom in Abroad
Korean Fantastic Audience Award
Abroad by Giovanni Fumu...
Bucheon Choice: Features
Best of Bucheon Krw – 20,000,000
Sorcery by Christopher Murray
Best Director Choice – Krw 5,000,000
Superposition by Karoline Lyngbye
Jury's Choice – Krw 5,000,000
The Artifice Girl by Franklin Ritch
Audience Award
The Artifice Girl by Franklin Ritch
Korean Fantastic: Features
Best Korean Fantastic Film – 20,000,000
Iron Mask by Kim Sung Hwan
Film Review: Iron Mask (2023) by Kim Sung-hwan
Korean Fantastic Best Director – Krw 5,000,000
Risk Society by Kim Byung Jun
Film Review: Risk Society (2023) by Kim Byung-jun
Korean Fantastic Actors:
Jung E-seo in Her Hobby
Jang Seongbeom in Abroad
Korean Fantastic Audience Award
Abroad by Giovanni Fumu...
- 7/7/2023
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
The festival’s closing film was the world premiere of Takashi Shimizu’s ‘Sana’.
Christopher Murray’s witchcraft and revenge thriller Sorcery won the top prize at the 27th Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (Bifan) tonight (July 7) in South Korea.
Onstage at the closing ceremony at Bucheon City Hall, the Chilean filmmaker dedicated the Best of Bucheon award for his folk horror film “to the people from the island where the film was shot – that is Chiloe - because it’s a story that is based on their story,” noting “the people from the island also participated in the film...
Christopher Murray’s witchcraft and revenge thriller Sorcery won the top prize at the 27th Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (Bifan) tonight (July 7) in South Korea.
Onstage at the closing ceremony at Bucheon City Hall, the Chilean filmmaker dedicated the Best of Bucheon award for his folk horror film “to the people from the island where the film was shot – that is Chiloe - because it’s a story that is based on their story,” noting “the people from the island also participated in the film...
- 7/7/2023
- by Jean Noh
- ScreenDaily
The great Choi Min-sik was on hand to take early headlines at the Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (BiFan).
Described somewhat blandly as “a highly reliable performer” by the Korean Film Council (Kofic), Choi is not only the star of Korea’s top grossing film of all time “The Admiral: Roaring Currents,” he continues to be available for work of all different levels. He appears in no less than ten titles that played at the festival this week.
The festival also does reliable — in its own way – as it plays up to its “stay strange” mantra, cooperates with other festivals of a similar fantasy leaning and sidesteps the political infighting that currently bedevil Korea’s best-known festivals.
The selection runs from a documentary about Korean reunification to Anurag Kashyap’s “Kennedy,” a crime drama in which former adult movie star Sunny Leone gets to show that she has evolved into a versatile and confident actor.
Described somewhat blandly as “a highly reliable performer” by the Korean Film Council (Kofic), Choi is not only the star of Korea’s top grossing film of all time “The Admiral: Roaring Currents,” he continues to be available for work of all different levels. He appears in no less than ten titles that played at the festival this week.
The festival also does reliable — in its own way – as it plays up to its “stay strange” mantra, cooperates with other festivals of a similar fantasy leaning and sidesteps the political infighting that currently bedevil Korea’s best-known festivals.
The selection runs from a documentary about Korean reunification to Anurag Kashyap’s “Kennedy,” a crime drama in which former adult movie star Sunny Leone gets to show that she has evolved into a versatile and confident actor.
- 7/7/2023
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Kendo, known as “Gumdo” in Korea may not have the impact or the legacy it has in Japan but is still quite popular, while also finding its place occasionally in cinema, in movies like “The Divine Weapon” and “Shadowless Sword”. Kim Sung-hwan, however, in his feature debut, comes up with a movie that focuses exclusively on the particular sport, although through an approach that is also intensely dramatic.
“Iron Mask” is screening at Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival
Jae-woo has been selected to participate in the training camp of the national kendo team, which will determine which athletes will constitute it. The group of participants includes members of varying ages as in the case of Jun-hee, a middle aged father of two who has undergone the process a number of times, but always failed. The man immediately tries to become friends with Jae-woo and even mentor him to a point,...
“Iron Mask” is screening at Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival
Jae-woo has been selected to participate in the training camp of the national kendo team, which will determine which athletes will constitute it. The group of participants includes members of varying ages as in the case of Jun-hee, a middle aged father of two who has undergone the process a number of times, but always failed. The man immediately tries to become friends with Jae-woo and even mentor him to a point,...
- 7/5/2023
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
MIFFest to open with the world premiere of ‘Eraser’.
Acclaimed Hong Kong filmmaker Johnnie To has been named jury president of the 6th Malaysia International Film Festival (MIFFest), which will also honour Taiwanese actress Sylvia Chang with a lifetime achievement award.
To will chair the festival’s competition jury, which also includes Vietnamese actress Truong Ngoc Anh, Japanese filmmaker Ryuichi Hiroki, Malaysian star Zizan Razak and Singaporean director Eric Khoo. To is a leading director of films such as Breaking News, Election, Exiled, Mad Detective and Drug War, and sat on the Berlinale international competition jury earlier this year.
MIFFest...
Acclaimed Hong Kong filmmaker Johnnie To has been named jury president of the 6th Malaysia International Film Festival (MIFFest), which will also honour Taiwanese actress Sylvia Chang with a lifetime achievement award.
To will chair the festival’s competition jury, which also includes Vietnamese actress Truong Ngoc Anh, Japanese filmmaker Ryuichi Hiroki, Malaysian star Zizan Razak and Singaporean director Eric Khoo. To is a leading director of films such as Breaking News, Election, Exiled, Mad Detective and Drug War, and sat on the Berlinale international competition jury earlier this year.
MIFFest...
- 6/15/2023
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
MIFFest to open with the world premiere of ‘Eraser’.
Acclaimed Hong Kong filmmaker Johnnie To has been named jury president of the 6th Malaysia International Film Festival (MIFFest), which will also honour Taiwanese actress Sylvia Chang with a lifetime achievement award.
To will chair the festival’s competition jury, which also includes Vietnamese actress Truong Ngoc Anh, Japanese filmmaker Ryuichi Hiroki, Malaysian star Zizan Razak and Singaporean director Eric Khoo. To is a leading director of films such as Breaking News, Election, Exiled, Mad Detective and Drug War, and sat on the Berlinale international competition jury earlier this year.
MIFFest...
Acclaimed Hong Kong filmmaker Johnnie To has been named jury president of the 6th Malaysia International Film Festival (MIFFest), which will also honour Taiwanese actress Sylvia Chang with a lifetime achievement award.
To will chair the festival’s competition jury, which also includes Vietnamese actress Truong Ngoc Anh, Japanese filmmaker Ryuichi Hiroki, Malaysian star Zizan Razak and Singaporean director Eric Khoo. To is a leading director of films such as Breaking News, Election, Exiled, Mad Detective and Drug War, and sat on the Berlinale international competition jury earlier this year.
MIFFest...
- 6/15/2023
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
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