The Seeds Of Violence, Blue Butterfly Effect also win awards at Korean festival.
The 18th Jeonju International Film Festival (Jiff) has crowned its award winners for 2017, with Davi Pretto’s Rifle taking the Grand Prize worth KW20m ($18,000) in the international competition.
The Brazilian film shows what happens when a rich landowner starts buying land in a remote area and in response, a young man feels his only protection from this is his rifle.
Thanking the fest and jury, Pretto noted this was the first time he had shown the film in Asia.
”It was amazing to meet the audience and show our film, and incredible to meet our colleagues - our new friends now - from all over the planet,” he said.
Also in the international competition, the best picture prize, a.k.a. the Woosuk Award which comes with $10,000, went to French film The Park, directed by Damien Manivel. He echoed...
The 18th Jeonju International Film Festival (Jiff) has crowned its award winners for 2017, with Davi Pretto’s Rifle taking the Grand Prize worth KW20m ($18,000) in the international competition.
The Brazilian film shows what happens when a rich landowner starts buying land in a remote area and in response, a young man feels his only protection from this is his rifle.
Thanking the fest and jury, Pretto noted this was the first time he had shown the film in Asia.
”It was amazing to meet the audience and show our film, and incredible to meet our colleagues - our new friends now - from all over the planet,” he said.
Also in the international competition, the best picture prize, a.k.a. the Woosuk Award which comes with $10,000, went to French film The Park, directed by Damien Manivel. He echoed...
- 5/3/2017
- by hjnoh2007@gmail.com (Jean Noh)
- ScreenDaily
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A dysfunctional family converges on their family home to kill one of their own in Happy Bus Day, the second feature from young Korean helmer Lee Seung-won. Two years on from his debut, the ironically titled Communication and Lies, in which a couple tells fibs to sustain a fragile relationship, Lee’s latest is all about eight people tearing each other apart with more callous candor.
Unfolding mostly within the claustrophobic confines of a small house, Happy Bus Day plays out like a cruder version of Cristi Puiu’s family-meltdown drama Sieranevada, complete with the emotional histrionics common in Korean domestic...
Unfolding mostly within the claustrophobic confines of a small house, Happy Bus Day plays out like a cruder version of Cristi Puiu’s family-meltdown drama Sieranevada, complete with the emotional histrionics common in Korean domestic...
- 4/25/2017
- by Clarence Tsui
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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