Jeonju International Film Festival
Jeonju International Film Festival (JIFF, Korean: 전주국제영화제; Hanja: 全州國際映畵祭) is an Asian film festival. It was launched in 2000 as a non-competitive film festival with partial competition. It introduces independent and experimental films to focus on the alternative course of contemporary film art.
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| Opening film | After Yang by Kogonada |
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| Closing film | Full Time by Éric Gravel |
| Location | Jeonju Film Street, Jeonju, South Korea |
| Founded | 2000 |
| Most recent | 2022 |
| Hosted by | JEONJU IFF Organizing Committee |
| No. of films | 217 films from 52 countries |
| Festival date | April 27 - May 6, 2023 |
| Language | International |
| Website | www |
| Jeonju International Film Festival | |
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| Revised Romanization | Jeonju Gukjae Yeonghwajae |
| McCune–Reischauer | Chŏnju Kukche Yŏnghwaje |
In the first edition of JIFF, debut films of Darren Aronofsky were introduced to South Korea. For the first time in Asia, JIFF highlighted early works of Béla Tarr as well. The winners of Jeonju IFF's International Competition Section include Ying Liang, John Akomfrah and Miike Takashi.
Jeonju also produces movies. Directors that were once invited to Jeonju IFF were later invited again to Jeonju Digital Project (JDP), a set of three digital shorts. JDP granted financial support to masters for their short films and world-premiered those pieces in Jeonju.
Celebrating its 15th edition, JDP has boosted scale up to feature-length with GYÖRGY Pálfi (Hungary) and PARK Jung bum/SHIN Yeon-shick (Republic of Korea).
JIFF also features an experimental section called Expanded Cinema (formerly called Stranger than Cinema).