The 18th Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival (PiFan) announced its line-up today. It will run from 17th July to to 27th July. The closing ceremony will be on 25th July.
The festival opens with the movie The Stereo. Though the movie was premiered in the Berlinale Panorama section in February but will recieve its Asian premiere at PiFan. The festival’s closing film will be the world premiere of Korean director Kwon Lee’s sophomore feature My Ordinary Love Story. It stars Song Sae-byeok and Kang Ye-won.
The Puchon Choice Section features a total of 12 titles. It includes world premiere of James Leong’s sci-fi surveillance thriller Camera. Toshio Lee’s high school sci-fi Time Trip App will also be premiered in the festival.
International premieres in Puchon Choice include Chinese film The Great Hypnotist by Leste Chen and Kulp Kaljareuk’s supernatural mystery from Thailand, Hong Hoon.
The World Fantastic includes some of the best works from established and up-and-coming notables from around the world. some of the line-ups are –
- Malaysian director Woo Ming Jin’s KL Zombie
- Filipino director Ato Bautista’s Gemini
The Vision Express section premieres the Brunei martial arts film Yasmine and director Yukisada Isao’s The Round Table from Japan.
The other Line Up include –
- The Babadook (Australia) Jennifer Kent
- Camera (Singapore-Hong-Kong-China) James Leong
- The Dark Valley (Austria-Germany) Andreas Prochaska
- Darkness By Day (Argentina) Martin Desalvo
- Dark Snow 2: Red vs. Dead (Norway) Tommy Wirkola
- The Great Hypnotist (China) Leste Chen
- Hong Hoon (Thailand) Kulp Kaljareuk
- Jack Strong (Poland) Wladyslaw Pasikowski
- The Midnight After (Hong Kong-China) Fruit Chan
- Open Windows (France-Spain-US) Nacho Vilgalondo
- Time Trip App (Japan) Toshio Lee
- When Animals Dream (Denmark) Jonas Alexander Arnby
Other than these, PiFan will also screen classics such as King Hu’s Dragon Inn, Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Poltergeist.
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