The Jeonju International Film Festival (JIFF, Korean: 전주국제영화제, Hanja: 全州國際映畵祭) has been held annually since 2000 in Jeonju, South Korea, focusing on digital, independent and art films.

History

2000

• April 28-May 4: 184 films from 21 countries
• Opening Film: Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Hong Sang-soo, Korea
• Closing Film: M/OTHER, Nobuhiro Suwa, Japan
• Woosuk Award (Asian Indie-Cine Forum): M/OTHER, Nobuhiro Suwa, Japan
• Daring Digital Award (N-Vision): Riot, John Akomfrah, UK
• Jeonju People's Award (Cinemascape): Audition, Takashi Miike, Japan
• Jeonju Korean Shorts Award: Scissors, Lee Ki-cheol, Korea

2001

• April 27-May 3: 202 films from 28 countries
• Opening Film: Waikiki Brothers, Im Sun-rye, Korea
• Closing Film: This Is My Moon, Asoka Handagama, Sri Lanka
• Woosuk Award (Asian Indie-Cine Forum):
• Mysterious Object at Noon, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand
• This Is My Moon, Asoka Handagama, Sri Lanka
• Daring Digital Award (N-Vision):
• About Pleasure and Hysteria-the Sexual Life of the Belgians, part IV, Jan Bucquoy, Belgium
• Once & Future Queen, Todd Verow, USA
• Special Mention: The Cutting, Peter Missotten and Bram Smeyers, Belgium
• Jeonju People's Award (Cinemascape): Beijing Bicycle, Wang Xiaoshuai, China, Taiwan
• Jeonju Korean Shorts Award: Noonday, Jang Myung-sook, Korea

2002

• April 26-May 2: 266 films from 32 countries
• Opening Film: KT, Junji Sakamoto, Korea)
• Closing Film: Brother, Yan Yan Mak, Hong Kong
• Woosuk Award: Brother, Yan Yan Mak, Hong Kong
• Daring Digital Award: Angel Exit, Vladimír Michálek, Czech Republic
• JIFF Favorites Award: Spirited Away, Hayao Miyazaki, Japan

2003

• April 25-May 4: 170 films from 30 countries
• Opening Film: If You Were Me, Park Kwang-su, Park Jin-pyo, Park Chan-wuk, Yeo Kyun-dong, Yim Soon-rye, Korea
• Closing Film: Far From Heaven, Todd Haynes, USA
• Woosuk Award: Emtehan (Exam), Nasser Refaie, Iran
• Daring Digital Award: ½ the rent (½ Miete), Marc Ottiker, Germany
• JIFF Favorites Award: Spider, David Cronenberg, Canada

2004

• April 23-May 2: 286 films from 30 countries
• Opening Film: Possible Changes, Min Byoung-kook, Korea
• Closing Film: November, Achero Manas, Spain
• Woosuk Award (Asian Indie-Cine Forum):
• Silence between Two Thoughts, Babak Payami, Iran
• Special Mention: Min, Ho Yuhang, Malaysia
• Daring Digital Award:
• Suite Havana, Fernanado Perez, Cuba
• Special Mention: Sexual Dependency, Rodrigo Bellott, Bulgaria
• JIFF Favorites Award: Coffee and Cigarettes, Jim Jarmusch, USA

2005

• April 28-May 6: 170 films from 30 countries
• Opening Film: Digital Short Films by Three Filmmakers 2005, Shinya Tsukamoto, Song Il-gon, Apichatpong Weerasethakul
• Closing Film: Antarctic Journal, Yim Phil-sung, Korea
• Woosuk Award (Indie Vision):
• Harvest Time, Marina Razbezhkina, Russia
• Special Mention: I, Caludia, Chris Abraham, Canada
• JJ-Star Award (Digital Spectrum):
• Czech Dream, Vít Klusák, Filip Remunda, Czech Republic
• Oxhide, Liu Jia Yin, China
• JIFF Favorites Award (Cinemascape/Cinema Palace): The Butterfly, Philippe Muyl, France
• Audience Critics' Award:
• The Gate of Truth, Kim Hee-chul, Korea
• Special Mention: Five is Too Many, Ahn Seul-ki, Korea

2006

• April 27-May 5
• Opening Film: Offside, Jafar Panahi, Iran.
• Closing Film: Don't Look Back, Kim Young-nam, South Korea
• Woosuk Award (Indie Vision):
• Drifting States, Denis Cote, Canada
• Special Comment: Smiling in a War Zone - The Art of Flying to Kabul, Magnus Bejmar and Simone Aaberg Kaern, Denmark
• JJ-Star Award (Digital Spectrum):
• Stories from the North, Uruphong Raksasad, Thailand
• Special Comment:
• The White She-Camel, Xavier Christiaens, Belgium
• 11,000km from New York, Orzu Sharipov, Tajikistan
• JIFF Favorites Award (Cinemascape/Cinema Palace):
• Veer-Zaara, Yash Chopra, Pakistan
• Audience Critics Award (Korean Cinema on the Move):
• Shocking Family, Kyung soon, South Korea
• CGV Korean Independent Feature Film Distribution Support Award:
• Between, Lee Chang-jae, South Korea

2007

• April 26-May 4: 185 films from 37 countries
• Opening film: Off Road, Han Seung-ryong
• Closing film: Exiled, Johnnie To

2008

• May 1-May 9: 195 films from approximately 40 countries
• Opening film: THE KISS, Manda Kunitoshi
• Closing film: If You Were Me 4, Bang Eun-jin, Jeon Gye-soo

Digital Short Films by Three Filmmakers

Each year, the Jeonju International Film Festival commissions three filmmakers to produce digital short films to be shown at the festival. Each filmmaker gets $50,000 to make their film. In past years, the Digital Short Films have included:

• 2000 - www.whitelover.com, Park Kwang-su; Dal Segno, Kim Yun-tae; Jin Xing Files, Zhang Yuan
• 2001 - In Public, Jia Zhangke; Digitopia, John Akomfrah; A Conversation with God, Tsai Ming-liang
• 2004 - Influenza, Bong Joon-ho; Mirrored Mind, Sogo Ishii; Dance with Me to the End of Love, Yu Lik-wai
• 2005 - Haze, Shinya Tsukamoto; Magician(s), Song Il-gon; Worldly Desires, Apichatpong Weerasethakul
• 2006 - No Day Off, Eric Khoo; About Love, Darezhan Omirbaev; Twelve Twenty, Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
• 2007 - The Rabbit Hunters, Pedro Costa; Respite, Harun Farocki; Correspondences, Eugène Green

External links

• Jeonju International Film Festival official website