Korean Film Korean Guide 2009 Guide Film Guide Cannes Special Edition 2009 Korean Film Guide 2009 Cannes Special Edition Korean Film Guide Cannes Special Edition 2009 INDEX KOFIC Introduction 3 Korean films at Cannes Film Festival 4 International Sales Companies 16 Korean Film Council KOFIC’s main activities are as follows ; The Korean Film Council (KOFIC), a government-supported, 1. Establishment of plans to promote the film industry. KOFIC Contact in Cannes / KOFIC Contact in Seoul 31 self-administered body, strives to promote and support Korean 2. Management of the Korean Film Development Fund. Films both in korea and abroad. KOFIC’s primary objective is to 3. Provision of support for the production, distribution and screening of films in Released & Upcoming Films in 2009 32 promote and support the production of Korean films through order to ensure the quality of films as well as greater diversification. funding, research, education and training. It also strives to further 4. Management of film production facilities, including the KOFIC Namyangju Released Films 34 development international markets for Korean films and to promote Studios. inter-cultural understanding through film-based cultural exchanges. 5. Support in the form of overseas marketing and promotion of international Upcoming Films 60 exchanges. 6. Research and development. Index of Films 100 7. Education and training of film-related human resources. Index of Directors 102 Korean Films at Cannes Film Festival Thirst Mother A Brand New Life Like You Know It All Dust Kid 6 hours Don’t Step Out of the House The Horn Prince Yeosan Synopsis Synopsis Beloved and devoted priest from a small town volun- Widowed for a long time, a mother lives alone with her Thirst 박쥐 / Bakjui teers for a medical experiment which fails and turns Mother 마더 / Mother only son. He is 28 years old, a shy and quiet young man. him into a vampire. Physical and psychological changes In the aftermath of a terrible murder, the woman’s hope- lead to his affair with a wife of his childhood friend who less, helpless son becomes the prime suspect. There is repressed and tired of her mundane life. The one-time is no real evidence against him, but the police throw priest falls deeper in despair and depravity. As things groundless suspicion at him. Eager to close the case, Competition turn for worse, he struggles to maintain what’s left of his Un Certain Regard the police are happy with their cursory investigation and humanity. arrest the boy. His defense attorney turns out to be in- Directed by PARK Chan-wook Directed by BONG Joon-ho competent and unreliable. Faced with no other choice, PARK Chan-wook 박찬욱 朴贊彧 2009, 133min, 35mm, 11,970ft., 2.35:1, Color, Dolby SRD 2009, 35mm, 2.35:1, Color, Dolby SRD his mother gets involved, determined to prove her son’s Cast SONG Kang-ho (Sang-hyun), KIM Ok-vin (Tae-joo) Born in 1963, and is one of the most significant talents of Cast KIM Hye-ja(Hye-ja), WON Bin(Do-joon) innocence. Genre Drama new Korean cinema. He studied philosophy at Sogang Genre Drama Released Date April 30, 2009 University, where he founded a film club and developed Scheduled Release Date May 28, 2009 BONG Joon-ho 봉준호 奉俊昊 a strong interest in film theory and criticism. He became BONG studied sociology at Yonsei University and gradu- Screening Schedule KWAK Jae-yong’s first assistant director, and in 1992, Screening Schedule ated from the Korean Academy of Film Arts. By 1995 May-14, 4:30pm, Debussy Theatre | May-14, 10:00pm, Bazin Theatre (press screening) he made his feature film debut <The Moon is the Sun’s May-16, 2:00pm, Debussy Theatre (press screening) he made three short films <Memories in My Frame>, May-15, 11:30am, Lumière Theatre (official screening) Dream>. Starting with <Joint Security Area> and go- May-16, 10:00pm, Debussy Theatre (official screening) <White Man> and <Incoherence.> He wrote and direct- May-15, 10:30pm, Lumière Theatre (official screening, red carpet) ing on to <Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance>, <Old Boy>, May-17, 5:45pm, Bazin Theatre (repeat screening) ed his first feature, <Barking Dogs Never Bite>, which May-16, 6:00pm, Arcades 2 (market screening) <Sympathy for Lady Vengeance>, and <I’m a Cyborg May-19, 6:00pm, Arcades 2 (market screening) won a Fipresci Award at the Hong Kong Film Festival in but That’s OK>, he brought the Korean viewers to 2001. His second feature <Memories of Murder> won the expect ‘well-made films’ and made the audience rave Silver Shell Award for the best director in San Sebas- all the more by presenting new styles. Having pride in tian Film Festival in 2003. In 2006 his third feature film, going back and forth between different genres and in <The Host>, was selected for the Directors’ Fortnight at his unique directing sense, PARK has become a world the Cannes Film Festival. Most recently, he took part in renowned director. the omnibus film <TOKYO!> along with Michel GONDRY and Leo CARAX, which was selected for the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes Film Festival in 2008. PRODUCTION PRODUCTION Barunson Film Division Moho Film Tel +82 2 540 2711 Tel +82 2 3675 4430 Fax +82 2 540 2718 Fax +82 2 3675 4493 E-mail [email protected] E-mail [email protected] Website www.barunsonfilm.com INTERNATIONAL SALES INTERNATIONAL SALES CJ Entertainment Inc. CJ Entertainment Inc. Tel +82 2 2017 1094, 1192 Tel +82 2 2017 1094, 1192 Fax +82 2 2017 1240 Fax +82 2 2017 1241 E-mail [email protected], [email protected] E-mail [email protected], [email protected] Website www.cjent.co.kr/eng Website www.cjent.co.kr 6 7 Synopsis Synopsis 1975. Jinhee is 9. Her father entrusts her to a convent of KU Kyung-nam, who is stuck with the label of an ‘art- A Brand New Life Catholic nuns that houses an orphanage for girls in the Like You Know It All house film director’, attends a film festival in a small hope that she will be adopted. She cannot believe that town as a jury. In the town, he bumps into an old friend this father whom she loves so much has abandoned BU. Over drinks, KU is dragged to BU’s house and meets 여행자 / Yeohangja her. She attempts to run away. In vain, she finally ac- 잘 알지도 못하면서 / Jal Aljido Motamyunseo his wife. The next day after a long night of heavy drink- cepts her fate, forced to hope and wait for her possible ing, KU returns his hotel and finds a message from BU adoption. which says ‘never come near us again’. But he can’t Jinhee’s time at the orphanage will be one of multiple remember what happened last night. and permanent separations, of barely forged bonds Soon after that, KU goes to Jeju Island to give a lecture. Out of Competition-Special Screenings destined to be shattered. And, at the journey’s end, Directors’ Fortnight There he meets a famous admired painter who was there will be the promise, perhaps of a new life, of a Directed by HONG Sangsoo KU’s college senior and finds his new wife is KU’s love brand new life. 2009, 126min, 35mm, 11,592ft, 1.85:1, Color, Dolby SRD in his twenties. When she gives him a note secretly, he Cast KIM Tae-woo(KU Kyung-nam), KO Hyun-jung(GO Sun), UHM Ji-won(GONG Hyun-hee) is quiet confused. The next day on his way to go to the Directed by Ounie LECOMTE Genre Drama airport, KU changes his mind and heads to the painter’s 2009, 92min, 35mm, 1.85:1, Color, Dolby SRD Ounie LECOMTE 우니 르꽁트 Released Date May 14, 2009 house to meet her. Cast KIM Saeron (Jinhee), PARK Doyeon (Sookhee), KO A-sung (Yeshin) Born in Seoul in 1966, Ounie LECOMTE left Korea for Screening Schedule Genre Drama France at the age of 9 when a Protestant family adopted May-16, 9:00am, Theatre Croisette (press screening & press conference) HONG Sangsoo 홍상수 洪常秀 her. Her adoptive father was a minister. After studying May-16, 5:00pm, Theatre Croisette | May-17, 10:00pm, Studio 13 (official screening) HONG Sangsoo made the astounding debut with his Screening Schedule TBA dress design, she worked on a number of films: as an May-18, 8:00pm, Riviera 2 (market screening) first feature film <The Day A Pig Fell Into The Well> actress with Olivier Assayas (<Paris s’éveille>) or as a in 1996. Since then, through the 8 films that he wrote wardrobe mistress, notably for Sophie Fillières. In 1991, and directed, HONG has consistently enjoyed using she returned to Korea to play the part of an abandoned a complex and highly ordered architecture under a girl looking for her roots there. The film was never seemingly random surface created by spontaneous cir- made, but reality caught up with fiction and she was re- cumstances in depicting the characters in his films. Re- united with her biological family. In 2006, she enrolled at nowned for his unique cinematographic language and the Fémis Screenwriting Workshop run by Eve Deboise unprecedented esthetics in filmmaking, HONG Sangsoo where she wrote <A Brand New Life>. is considered as one of the most established auteurs in contemporary Korean cinema. PRODUCTION Now Films Gloria Films Tel +82 31 967 2046 Tel +33 1 42 21 42 11 PRODUCTION Fax +82 31 967 2049 Fax +33 1 42 21 43 31 Jeonwonsa Film Co.