Gwangju International Film Festival
광주국제영화제
annual film festival held in Gwangju, South Korea
Gwangju · South Korea
🗓️ When?
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No date recorded — please check with the organiser.
- Recurrence
- annually
📍 Where?
- Town
- Gwangju
- Country
- South Korea
- How precise?
- the festival's own coordinate
ℹ️ Details
- Website
- giff.org
- Status
- unclear
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📖 Excerpt from the Wikipedia article
Gwangju International Film Festival is an international film festival that takes place in Gwangju, South Korea. The festival was first held from 12/7/2001 to 12/14/2001 at Gwangju Cinema, Mudeung Theater, Jaeil Cinema, and Cine City. The festival was held annually in various venues within the city until it was indefinitely postponed in 2016. It was originally a non-competitive film festival and it was partially converted into a competitive film festival in 2002. The main focus of the festival is to introduce movies that are critically acclaimed but have not been introduced to South Korea and to lay a cultural groundwork by grafting the cultural heritage of Jeollanam-Do together with movie as a new cultural code. It also intends to bring awareness to important historical events such as Gwangju Uprising through films.
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