Vesoul International Asian Movies Film Festival Prepares 22nd Edition

 

 

Vesoul International Asian Movies Film Festival in France, a longtime supporter of cutting edge Korean cinema, is preparing to unspool its 22nd edition next month, over February 3rd to the 10th. The competition has yet to be unveiled, but leading the jury will be none other than top Korean director IM Sang-soo.

 

IM will also receive the Golden Honorary Award for his career’s work during the Festival’s opening ceremony in Edwige Feuillère’s theater. He will serve on the jury with Iranian filmmaker Mania AKBARI, Indonesian journalist Nan ACHNAS and Thai director Euthana MUKDASANIT.

 

Following work as assistant director on KIM Young-bin’s Kim’s War (1992) and a screenwriter on PARK Jong-won’s Eternal Empire (1995), IM debuted as a filmmaker in 1998 with Girl’s Night Out, which was then followed by the acclaimed Tears (2001). He then achieved commercial and critical success with A Good Lawyer's Wife (2003) and The President’s Last Bang (2005). After 2007’s The Old Garden, IM received consecutive Cannes Film Festival invitations for his films The Housemaid (2010) and The Taste of Money (2012). He most recently made Intimate Enemies for Fox International Productions last year.

 

Vesoul will also stage a special focus on “Literary adaptations in Korean Cinema”, which will include IM’s The Old Garden, adapted from HWANG Sok-yong’s novel. The festival’s top prize, the Cycle d’Or, was won by ZHANG Lu’s Grain In Ear in 2006, O Muel’s Jiseul in 2013 and LEE Yong-seung’s 10 Minutes in 2014.

Related People

• KIM Young-bin
• PARK Jong-won
• O Muel
• IM Sang-soo
• ZHANG Lu
• LEE Yong-seung
• HWANG Sok-yong

Related Films

• Kim's War 1992
• Eternal Empire 1995
• Tears 2001
• A Good Lawyer's Wife 2003
• The President's Last Bang 2005
• Grain In Ear 2006
• The Old Garden 2007
• The Housemaid 2010
• Jiseul 2013
• The Taste of Money 2012
• 10 Minutes 2014
• Intimate Enemies 2015