국제경쟁
대상
Birds of September
- Lebanon
- 2013
- 90min
- DCP
- Color
Synopsis
Here or there, between the night and day, in front of the frozen sea where time has stopped, or within the multilayered spaces—what if there were a sonnet for anonymous people? Birds of September is a romance and a chanson for innocent, strong, and beautiful people. The glassed van roaming the streets of Beirut is a moving confessional that sketches the city’s contours, wavelengths, love, and anger.
The opening scene of this film shows the surface of torn building walls in tracking shots and then follows the passing faces and closed shutter doors, open windows and the street grounds, and the seashore, finally reaching the downtown of Beirut. As Andy Warhol invited the contemporary artists to his “Factory” and filmed their facial expressions, gestures, and depressed passion into Screen Tests, Sarah Francis invited anonymous people of Lebanon and expressed the entirety of facts, including silence, as a single, ultimate language. As part and entirety at the same time, images are extra forms and a mass of activity created within a discord—the fateful attitude that can be retained only when a certain moment disappears forever. This documentary describes the time passing through spaces, by displaying individuals as the front view, the city seen through the glass walls as the background, filmed through an unstable focus of the zoomed camera. It also placed in the frames the blood and dreams, sounds and the last drop of water, birds and trees and rocks, and the streetlights in the early evening and nightscapes. Mallarme wrote: “Tear for us with a drunken flap of his wing, This hard forgotten lake,... inflicted by space on the bird which denies space.” (JEON Sung-kwon)
Director
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Sarah FRANCISSarah Francis grew up and studied in Beirut. In 2005 her graduation short movie: ‘Interferences’ won the students’ film competition at the European Film Festival (Beirut- 2005). In this very first project, the theme of Beirut city was already present. She participated in several international workshops. Since 2006, she has been working as a freelance director for several production companies. She has just completed her first feature film: ‘Birds of September’ and is currently working on a video for Ashkal Alwan ‘Video Works 2014’ and on a documentary within the frame of DOX: LAB (CPH: DOX).
Birds of September (2013)
한국경쟁
심사위원 특별상
Miryang Ariran – Legend of Mirayng2
- Korea
- 2014
- 127min
- HD
- Color
Synopsis
An old woman and young woman are walking on a trail in the dark. They are discussing the upcoming fight while surveying the transmission tower construction site avoiding the police. It may appear these two women who are generations apart may have nothing in common, but they are joking around like sisters while eating watermelon on the floor. Miryang Arirang – Legend of Miryang 2 tells the untold story of the people who are opposed to the construction of the transmission towers living in Miryang Shingori Village. This documentary gives life to their voices about the value of the life they are desperately trying to protect. No philosopher, politician or social advocate can be more eloquent about why these farmers want to continue to lead a beautiful life in a nature-friendly environment except for the farmers themselves. However, their peaceful lives come to an end when they have no choice but to chain themselves out of protest against thousands of police officers and employees from Korea Electric Power Corporation. The documentary praises the Miryang villagers’ value of life and tries to portray the reasons behind their opposition while raising a serious question about the cries of the people who are being ruined by the South Korean government’s oppressive nuclear policy and capitalist conspiracy. (KIM Young-jin)
Director
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PARK Bae-ilPARK Bae-il is currently working in an independent film group, Ozifilm. Inspired by an old lady in his neighborhood, he made his first short documentary, Just Their Christmas (2007). Dreaming of a world without any discrimination against workers, women and the disabled, he is currently working on other documentary projects.
<밀양 아리랑> Miryang Arirang - Legend of Miryang 2 (2014)
<밀양전>Legend of Miryang 1 (2013)
<나비와 바다>Sea of Butterfly (2011)
<잔인한 계절>Cruel Season (2010)
<촛불은 미래다> 2008 Candlelight story in Busan (2009)
<내 사랑 제제>The Way to Jeje (2008)
<그들만의 크리스마스> Just Their Christmas (2007)
최우수 한국 다큐멘터리 상
How to Become a Chair
- Korea
- 2014
- 80min
- DCP
- Color
Synopsis
Countless industrial products are processed and manufactured. After passing safety and quality checks, they are priced according inexplicably and then exchanged and discarded. We exist among these products in their assigned places. In other words, by observing closely what sorts of products are surrounding us, we can identify our social, economical and aesthetic relationship with the spaces around us. How to Become a Chair centers on a chair. It is an object that illustrates our positions, which could be seen as the representative relationship the serves as a medium for connecting spatial and temporal realms. In direct with one’s flesh, a chair is closely connected to everyday life, and therefore it is found in a specific and empirical space. The film portrays various qualities of a chair. It is an industrial product as well as an emotional object, on which one could bestow a meaning in life, thereby creating linkage to valued decisions and practices. However, what is more significant than this is the need to remind ourselves that chairs have occupied time and space and to imagine our life story. Chairs have embraced your body temperature, endured the weight of your life and unknowingly helped you measure off your own space and hold it. Therefore, by considering those who sat on the chair and the space and time it occupies (including the chair you are sitting on), we are led to reflect upon ourselves. Where did your chair come from? Where is it headed? What position does it take? (KIM Sook-hyun)
Director
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SON Kyung-hwaSON Kyung-hwa
learns how to become a chair.
<의자가 되는 법> How to Become a Chair (2014)
<그자식이대통령되던날>The Day that Bastard became President (2011)
<개청춘>The Blossom of Youth? (2009)
관객상
My Love, Don’t Cross That Rive
- Korea
- 2014
- 86min
- HD
- Color
Synopsis
There is this couple that lived for 75 years together, and the husband and wife are now about to reach 100 and 90 years old, respectively. Despite the long years, the couple is still dear to each other. Married young to live his wife’s family, the husband waited for several years for the young bride to grow old enough to start a real married life. Even now, they wear matching traditional outfits to go out. Their dear and devoted attitude to each other seems like the model for life companions. The only thing that bothers is the law of nature—death. As the title, an excerpt from an ancient poem, suggests, this loving couple cannot avoid the moment of parting. After the husband dies, the wife sits at the snow-layered grave and weeps sadly. By appearing repeatedly in the opening and ending, this scene is this documentary’s highlight moment that presents the theme of this film. With many elements that remind us of Old Partner, a paragon of Korea’s independent documentary going popular, this film can also become a magnet based on the charms of the characters. (MAENG Soo-jin)
Director
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JIN Mo-youngHe has been producing and directing various documentaries for Korean Broadcasters since 1997, and in 2012, he produced also a feature film Shiva, throw your life which is directed by LEE Seong-kyu whose My barefoot friend was nominated to IDFA 2010. My Love, Don’t Cross the River is his first featurelength documentary film as the director.
<님아,그 강을 건너지 마오> My Love, Don’t Cross That River (2014)
청소년경쟁
최우수 청소년 다큐멘터리상
How to Sell Lemonade
- Korea
- 2014
- 28min
- HD
- Color
Synopsis
Why do so many teenage directors choose to make documentaries about the very documentaries that they are making? They start off by declaring they are going to explore particular topics in certain ways, and then stealthily or rather openly stray towards focusing on their experiences of filmmaking. Indeed, many of them do find that they have to deal with some tough themes and unexpected variables. It is especially difficult to push ahead with their original plans when it comes to working as a team. Nonetheless, no matter how hard I try to understand, with some works I find their complacency simply unbearable. In fact, when I first began watching How to Sell Lemonade, I had my doubts and expected the film to conclude its story with some team members giving interviews about how exhausted they have been. Yet, perhaps due to this resignation, I found the team members’ journey of progress appealing. After all, this is no more than what it takes to make a film, isn’t it? I only wish that the film had taken just one step further. The tension with the Mall Shopkeepers Association towards the end was easily overshadowed by the story about selling lemonade. Moreover, given all their hard work, the final realization that they arrive at through the film could have been more perceptive. Conscientiousness is a virtue for sure but insight is yet another matter altogether. (AHN Seul-ki)
Director
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HAN Sang-jinThe three directors are all currently 8th graders at the Korean Animation High School. Although they initially entered high school dreaming of working in films and television, they are now under a lot of stress. Nevertheless, the three of them believe themselves to be the future of the cultural content industry and are working hard realize their dreams.
<김좀비>Zombie Kim (2014)
(2014)
<화성에서 온 학생, 금성에서 온 학생>
Students Are From Mars, Students Are From Venus (2013) -
HWANG Do-yeonThe three directors are all currently 8th graders at the Korean Animation High School. Although they initially entered high school dreaming of working in films and television, they are now under a lot of stress. Nevertheless, the three of them believe themselves to be the future of the cultural content industry and are working hard realize their dreams.
<단>Dan (2014) -
HWANG Seung-hunThe three directors are all currently 8th graders at the Korean Animation High School. Although they initially entered high school dreaming of working in films and television, they are now under a lot of stress. Nevertheless, the three of them believe themselves to be the future of the cultural content industry and are working hard realize their dreams.
<묻지마>Don’t Ask (2014)
우수 청소년 다큐멘터리상
Farewell My Teens
- Korea
- 2014
- 17min
- HD
- Color
Synopsis
How gratifying it is to see the older sister let out a stream of swear words! Her impassioned speech about her current situation in relation to the government’s new policy tailored to promote employment opportunities for students is a bit long but certainly impressive. Seeing her sprawled out while cursing profusely and energetically, I realized that there was hope for the future of this country. Although the way her concerns are mixed up with the dolls that she plays with, including Ming Ming is a bit of a structural cliché, the clash of the two sides leads to some fascinating results. To my regret, the film depends too heavily on the character of the older sister, and thus neither portrays its theme fully nor presents an effective structure. We will be confronted with countless inevitable choices and difficulties. This could be viewed as abandoning ideal in the name of realities. However, in a way that is a form of confident self-awareness and proclamation. In the last scene of the film, the older sister appears so beautiful, as she sings with a coy smile on her face. I look forward to her 20’s. (AHN Seul-ki)
Director
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JO Woo-sungThe director currently attends Bumyung High School in Bucheon-si, Gyeonggido. He directed Farewell My Teens through participating at the DMZ Docs Youth Documentary Production Workshop, which led him to fully appreciate the joy of filmmaking in the process.
<굿바이 10대> Farewell My Teens (2014)