Korean Fantastic: Features

Korean Fantastic: Features is the newly created competition section for Korean films. In the majority of genre films which became already the mainstream not the sub-culture, BiFan would like to pay an attention to the genre’s characteristics and trials. We have two world premieres in this section: How to Break up with My Cat the fantasy describing the affection towards the animal companion and family members, and Grand Father puts the story of excluded yet branded classes such as old war veteran and teenager girl into the style of the hard-boiled action film. Also this section selects Korean films released later last year and early this year which didn’t have the commercial success suffering from the commercial distribution system hoping these films can get the attention from international festival circuits. Among many submitted titles, unfortunately we couldn’t include the titles which are too conventional and the ones already screened in other festivals in Korea. The international jury members would present three awards and audiences would vote for one audience award among the titles in Korean Fantastic: Feature section. BiFan hopes this new movement to discover and encourage Korean films gain the affections and interests from the audiences.