The Jeonju International Film Festival’s 24th edition concluded with an awards ceremony at the Samsung Cultural Center of Jeonbuk National University in North Jeolla Province on Wednesday. The event recognized winners across four categories, namely the international competition, Korean competition, Korean competition for shorts, and special awards.
Ota Tatsunari’s “There is a Stone” won the grand prize in the international competition category for its tale of protagonist Yoshikawa, a travel agency employee researching a new tourism project, who encounters a man named Doi while walking by a nearby riverbed.
Shin Dong-min’s “From You” received the grand prize in the Korean competition category for its exploration of the importance of family. The film stars the director’s mother, Kim Hye-jung, and Shin himself appears as the son in the third and final chapter of the film, blurring the line between documentary and narrative styles.
Director Cho Hanna’s “Queen’s Crochet” took home the grand prize in the Korean competition for shorts category for its 36-minute story of a girl who knits using a crochet that she received from her grandmother over 15 years.
In the special award category, “Stonewalling” by Huang Ji and Otsuka Ryuji received the NETPAC award for its fictional narrative. This award is presented by the Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema to one of the ten Asian films screened during Jeonju IFF. Additionally, Kim Eun-seong’s “COMPUTER” received the J Vision award.
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