Seoul Pride Film Festival Gives TROPICAL NIGHT ‘Pink Money Prize’

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Seoul Pride Film Festival Gives TROPICAL NIGHT ‘Pink Money Prize’

Nov 30, 2017

Writer by SONG Soon-jin
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SPFF Screened 70 Films from 30 Countries, Including 15 World Premieres

KIM Hun’s Tropical Night won the Pink Money Award (the fest’s audience award) at this year’s Seoul Pride Film Festival (SPFF). The melodrama revolves around Min-gi, a young man who leaves for Pattaya, Thailand to find his older brother’s lover in order to reveal why his brother committed suicide on leave from army service. This film is about the three men’s complicated emotions: Min-gi, his brother’s lover Jae-hee and Tae-gyeong who loves Jae-hee. “Tropical Night shows director KIM’s great direction and his potential,” SPFF said.

SPFF’s Watcha PRIDE Award went to Robin Campillo’s 120 BPM which was also the festival’s opening film. 120 BPM received the International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI) Prize and Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival this year. Set in the early 1990 during the AIDS crisis, a time when many patients died from lack of proper medication, the French drama captures the work of activists from the Paris branch of the AIDS advocacy group Act Up as they protest the government and pharmaceutical companies.

This year’s SPFF was held from November 2 to 8 at the CGV Cine-Library Myeongdong Station. The festival screened 70 films from 30 countries, including 15 world premieres, 8 Asian premieres and 23 Korean premieres.

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