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  • Korean Film Heats up the Baltic Sea
  • by LEE Eun-sun /  Nov 09, 2012
  • The WEIGHT, Invited to the Competition Section of the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
     
     
    Korean films are set to bring the Korean wave to Estonia. The Weight, directed by JEON Kyu-hwan, who won the Queer Lion trophy at the 69th Venice Film Festival, was selected as part of 20 films in the competition section of the 16th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival.
     
    Besides, many other Korean films such as For Ellen (KIM So-yeong), Pieta (KIM Ki-duk), In Another Country (HONG Sangsoo), Doomsday Book (KIM Jee-woon and YIM Pil-sung), Helpless (BYUN Young-joo), Howling (YOO Ha) and The Thieves (CHOI Dong-hoon) will be screened in various programs.
     
    A Korean-German collaboration film Camp 14: Total Control Zone (Marc Wiese) will be screened in the ‘Sepcial Programme on Human Rights’. The Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, which has introduced a variety of films including feature films, animated films, student films and children/youth films since it started in 1997, is going to start its 16th edition in Tallinn Estonia on the4 12th and run through to November 28th.
     
     
     
     
        
    Line-up for the Competition Section

    Everyday – director Michael Winterbottom (UK)
    A Lady in Paris / Eestlanna Pariisis – director Ilmar Raag (Estonia, France, Belgium)
    Halima's Path / Halimin put – director Arsen A. Ostojic (Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia Herzegovina)
    Hannah Arendt – director Margarethe von Trotta (Germany)
    Keep Smiling – director Rusudan Chkonia (Georgia, France)
    In the House / Dans la maison – director Francois Ozon (France)
    Kolka Cool – director Juris Poškus (Latvia 2011)
    Blancanieves – director Pablo Berger (Spain)
    My Fathers Bike / Moj rower – director Piotr Trzaskalski (Poland)
    Rhino Season / Fasle kargadan – director Bahman Ghobadi (Iran, Turkey)
    Paradise: Faith / Paradies: Glaube – director Ulrich Seidl (Austria, France, Germany)
    Beijing Flickers / Youzhong – director Zhang Yang (China)
    Boy Eating the Birds Food / To agori troei to fagito tou pouliou – director Ektoras Lygizos (Greece)
    Betrayal / Izmena – director Kirill Serebrennikov (Russia)
    Mushrooming / Seenelkäik – director Toomas Hussar (Estonia)
    All That Matter is Past / Uskyld – director Sara Johnsen (Norway)
    The Weight – director JEON Kyu-hwan (South Korea)
    House with Turret / Dom s bashenkoy – director Eva Neymann (Ukraine)
    Stagnant / Achal – director Bikramjit Gupta (India)
    Wadjda – director Haifaa Al-Mansour (Saudi Arabia, Germany)
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