A total of 9 Korean films to make inroads into The Syracuse Film Festival

A total of 9 films, which were screened at The Seoul Independent Film Festival(SIFF) 2004, made inroads into the competition section of the Syracuse International Film & Video Festival, the U.S.

These 9 cinemas that break down into full-length, medium-length and short film, include 'Wake up?', 'Hitchhiking', PaPa and so forth.

The Syracuse Film Festival, scheduled to be held from April 28 through May 1, greets the second time as of this year.

Among a total of 9 films, Papa is depicting a girl, Min-ju who suffers from autism, has started feeling sexual desire and injured herself. Min-ju's Father is anxious about his daughter and looking for a perfect boyfriend to his daughter.....

Hitchhiking is a story it's the first trip together for a couple that has been dating for about six months. To get out of boredom, a guy demands for new kind of excitement from his girlfriend and 'not she' but 'she' ends up 'hitchhiking' himself.

The Seoul Independent Film Festival(SIFF) is an annual event that showcases independent films made that year. It owes its genesis to the 1975 Korean Youth Film Festival, Golden Crown Short Film Festival and Korean Independent Short Film Festival.

SIFF is an event representing independent film as well as the Seoul area itself. The Film Festival is a competition film festival and covers all sorts of genres, from documentary, experimental film, animation and fiction film. SIFF however does not acknowledge boundaries between genres and awards films according to whether they are short films, medium-length films or feature films.

The Festival is held by Korean Film Council and the Association Korean Independetn Film & Video, and through a sponsorship by CJ-CGV invites unique foreign independent films for the edification of the public.

The Source : Koreacontent News Team

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