Ten S. Korean movies to hit screens at Dutch film festival

SEOUL, Jan. 13 (Yonhap) -- A record-breaking number of 10 South Korean movies,
including director Yang Ik-june's "Breathless," have been invited to this year's
International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), the event's organizers said
Tuesday.

"Breathless," portraying the lives of an ill-starred young man and woman, will be
rivaling movies from Europe and Asia also invited to the festival's Tiger Awards
Competition section. Director Yang also played the leading role in the movie,
which received the best movie awards from Seoul's Association of Korea
Independent Film and Video last year.
Other South Korean movies, including "A Cheonggyecheon Dog," "Exhausted," "Love
in the Shadows," "The Pot" and "My Love, Yurie," have been invited to the
festival's non-competition sections -- Bright Future, Signals and Spectrum --
screening works of young filmmakers around the world recognized for their
potential.
"South Korea continues to be a source of very diverse films," festival organizers
said in a press release.
Dubbed Europe's own Sundance Film Festival, the IFFR is considered one of the
most innovative film events in Europe, annually screening nearly 500 films at
venues throughout the Dutch city.
South Korean movies "The Day a Pig Fell into the Well" and "Jealousy is My Middle
Name" received the Tiger Awards in 1997 and 2003, respectively.
The 38th IFFR will run from Jan. 21 through Feb. 1, presenting 43 world premieres
as well as 35 international and 34 European premieres of feature length films.
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