The SEOUL International Women’s Film Festival (SIWFF) returns for its 19th edition for a 7-day run on June 1st in the Sinchon Megabox. 106 films hailing from 37 nations will be screened. This year’s event will kick off with a screening of the Polish film Spoor from director Agnieszka Holland, which debuted at the Berlin International Film Festival this year, where it won the Alfred Bauer Prize. This year, Korean actress HAN Ye-ri is serving as the festival’s ambassador.

Last year’s recipient of the documentary Ock Rang Award, a yearly filmmakers’ lab put on by SIWFF, KIM Bo-ram’s Blood Chronicle, will premiere during the event.

The New Currents section will include acclaimed global fare such as Kelly Reichardt’s Certain Women, Andrea Arnold’s American Honey, Anna Rose Holmer’s The Fits and Anne Biller’s The Love Witch, as well as local films including YOON Ga-eun’s The World of Us and LEE Kyoung-mi’s The Truth Beneath.

This year’s SIWFF will feature sections on ‘Polemics: Technofeminism - Women, Science & SF’, ‘Queer Rainbow’, ‘Feminist Classic’, ‘Asian Short Film & Video Competition' and ‘I-Teens’, a competition section for films from Korean teenage girl directors. There will also be a screening of The Widow (1955), the only work of PARK Nam-ok, Korea’s first female director, who passed away last month, as well as dedicated section to the work of documentary director KIM Sun-min, who also passed away this year.