Newtro Jeonju

Newtro Jeonju, created to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Jeonju IFF, is a special program that sheds light on the contemporary artists who have shared their vision with us for the last 20 years. We selected the artists with three criteria. First, the artists who have agreed with the history, visi...

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Opening Film

Ten teenagers including Nicola expand their power by assisting adult drug dealers. The boys ran through the alleys of Naples with their new scooters and purchased guns to encroach on the adult’s business. Now as a new big shot, Nicola bought furniture for his mother and fell in love with a girl. The...

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Closing Film

There is a heavily-tattooed young man, who has been raised by skinheads with white-supremacist beliefs. One day, he lends a helping hand to a woman preparing for a musical performance with her children. He soon falls in love with her. In addition, when he meets a black activist, his racist beliefs a...

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International Competition

This year’s International Competition can be summed up in one word: “place.” In System Crasher , nine-year-old Benni moves from one institution to another without a proper home. A young Spanish woman named Leonor dreams of a new life but encounters unexpected twists and turns in Journey to A Mother'...

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Korean Competition

The majority of 104 films, submitted in the Korean Competition of Jeonju IFF this year, follow a recent tendency of independence films which reflect the anger and frustration of the young generation about the future of Korean society. The 10 films selected in the competition among them try to face t...

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Korean Competition for Shorts

Korean Competition for Shorts featured 1,026 films this year. The number of films, which shows an increase of about 100 films compared to last year, gave us the unexpected pleasure of discovery. Five judges, including the senior programmer, debated and selected the 26 finalists among 82 films chosen...

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Jeonju Cinema Project

Jeonju Cinema Project, marking the sixth year since it switched to the feature film financing/ production program in 2014, presents four films this year. Among the four films, Shades of the Heart by Kim Jong-kwan, the Breathing of the Fire by Ko Hee-young, and ISADORA’S CHILDREN by Damien Manivel ar...

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Frontline

Frontline is a collection of the most unique and imaginative films, which has been introduced on the front line of cinema topology with issues raising questions and arguments, controversial worldviews, and innovative film styles. This year, we have chosen the films that refuse to settle for present,...

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Masters

This section takes us through a wide range of issues conveyed using diverse styles and expressions. The films selected this year include Monrovia, Indiana by the legendary documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman and Zhang Yang’s Up the Mountain, where the acclaimed Chinese filmmaker presents a beaut...

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World Cinemascape

This section presents a wide range of films by directors from all over the world. Philippe Lesage returns to Jeonju IFF with Genesis, a film that closely follows the story of teenagers dreaming of changes. Different generations undergoing changes account for the largest part of this year’s World Cin...

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World Cinemascape for Shorts

This section presents a wide range of films by directors from all over the world. Philippe Lesage returns to Jeonju IFF with Genesis, a film that closely follows the story of teenagers dreaming of changes. Different generations undergoing changes account for the largest part of this year’s World Cin...

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Korea Cinemascape

This year’s Korea Cinemascape prepared to screen a number of impressive documentaries. Unlike last year when the number of notable documentary films was small despite a strong point of this section, which has been discovered and introduced unique documentaries for many years, a wide variety of docum...

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Korea Cinemascape for Shorts

This year’s Korea Cinemascape prepared to screen a number of impressive documentaries. Unlike last year when the number of notable documentary films was small despite a strong point of this section, which has been discovered and introduced unique documentaries for many years, a wide variety of docum...

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Cinematology

The works selected for Cinematology are films about films that offer insight into cinema. Along with works that explore the worlds of legendary filmmakers as Buster Keaton, Ingmar Bergman, Theo Angelopoulos, Jean-Claude Brisseau, and Hal Ashby, we encounter cinematographer Robby Muller and Ziva Post...

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Expanded Cinema

The audience's enthusiastic support for Expanded Cinema was encouraging over recent years. Jeonju IFF decided to broaden the scope of this section, which has introduced the various aspects of the expansion of the film media beyond limitations. The experiment to combine theater screening and gallery ...

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Expanded Cinema for Shorts

The audience's enthusiastic support for Expanded Cinema was encouraging over recent years. Jeonju IFF decided to broaden the scope of this section, which has introduced the various aspects of the expansion of the film media beyond limitations. The experiment to combine theater screening and gallery ...

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Expanded Plus
: UTOPIAN PHANTOM

Expanded Plus is a non-theatrical installation program launched to celebrate the 20th Jeonju International Film Festival. This can be regarded as a tributary to the original Expanded Cinema, but it is perceived as an alternative program to present the new beginning of Jeonju IFF from the 20th editio...

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Cinemafest

This year’s Cinemafest unfolds with affable eloquence of events both big and small that arise in everyday life, as well as dramatic struggles in the aftermath of momentous incidents. As the title suggests, Jonah Hill’s Mid 90s tells a coming-of-age story of a boy during the 1990s. In Queen of Heart...

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Midnight Cinema

The films invited to Midnight Cinema not only have the interesting elements of genre, but also show their subversive imaginations, distinctive themes, free expression modes, and individual styles. Midnight Cinema presents a total of five films in five programs. It arranged all three parts of the 888...

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100 Years of Korean Cinema
: Another Upspring of Korean Cinema

100 Years of Korean Cinema, co-organized by Jeonju IFF and Korean Film Council to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Korean Cinema, introduces the Korean films that have not received enough attention during its 100-year history, or have a distinct historical value even though they are already known....

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100 Years of Korean Cinema
: Wild at Heart

The section Wild at Heart, designed to mark the 20th anniversary of the Jeonju IFF, presents the screening list filled with the films, planned and directed in the most freewheeling and provocative way by the ambitious directors, among the films produced in the 21st century. Most of the films listed ...

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Roy Andersson
: Exhibition of Human Being

This special section screens the works of Roy Andersson, an acclaimed contemporary Swedish filmmaker, artist and photographer. Roy Andersson received little attention in Korea till now. This time, Jeonju IFF will have a chance to catch his previous films on the big screen and recognize the true valu...

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Star Wars Archive
: Never-ending Chronology

Star Wars Archive: Never-ending Chronology is the second special focus followed by the Disney Legendary last year. Archiving project focuses on one topic such as film production, director, style and studio to record, preserve and reilluminate the subject. This year, we will present Star Wars series,...

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VR Cinema
: Sight in Front, Future Cinema

VR cinemas using 360-degree visual images and interaction to experience time and space in different dimensions are emerging as a new issue in various film festivals. In addition to films, it has been expanded to many adjacent fields such as games, performances, broadcasting and sports. And various e...

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