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Udine Audiences Favor SPLIT and CANOLA
Korea Continues Popularity Streak at 19th FEFF
The 19th edition of the Udine Far East Film Festival came to a close on April 29th after welcoming 60,000 viewers. While this year’s First Place Golden Mulberry Audience Award and Black Dragon Award went to the Japanese film Close Knit by OGIGAMI Naoko, it was once again a strong year of Korean cinema, as the Second and Third Place Audience Awards went to CHOI Kook-hee’s SPLIT and CHANG’s Canola.
CHOI’s debut film SPLIT is a bowling drama featuring YOO Ji-tae and LEE Jung-hyun, while Canola is a countryside family drama starring the legendary YOUN Yuh-jung and new star KIM Go-eun from CHANG, director of Death Bell (2008) and The Target (2014).
Other Korean films among the 19-strong delegation to the screen this year included Confidential Assignment, Fabricated City, Derailed, House of the Disappeared, Master, New Trial, RUN OFF, The Last Princess, Bluebeard, The Prison, VANISHING TIME: A BOY WHO RETURNED and the Old Boy (2003) documentary Old Days. Many of the films were supported by invited guests.
Korean films dominated last year, when they took the Golden Mulberry Audience Awards for First and Second Place with A Melody to Remember and SORI: Voice from the Heart. A year earlier, all three Audience Prizes went to Korean films: Ode to My Father, The Royal Tailor and My Brilliant Life.
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YOO Ji-tae
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YOUN Yuh-jung
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LEE Jung-hyun
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CHANG
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CHOI Kook-hee
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KIM Go-eun
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Old Boy
2003
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Death Bell
2008
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My Brilliant Life
2014
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Ode to My Father
2014
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The Target
2014
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The Royal Tailor
2014
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Fabricated City
2017
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RUN OFF
2016
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Bluebeard
2017
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The Last Princess
2016
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Confidential Assignment
2017
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VANISHING TIME: A BOY WHO RETURNED
2016
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Canola
2016
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SORI: Voice from the Heart
2016
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A Melody to Remember
2016
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Derailed
2016
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Master
2016
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House of the Disappeared
2017
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The Prison
2017
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Old Days
2016
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SPLIT
2016
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New Trial
2017