awarded movies 2013

2013 KIFF Short Film Grand Prize: The River – Odyssey of life (한국의 강)
Director 박 찬 모
Cinematographer
Stereographer Park Chan Mo
Type Documentary
Country South Korea
Company 한국교육방송공사(EBS)
Category Feature Film
Year of Production 2013
Summary

The river is the cradle of life, as water is the not only the essence of life itself, but also its
progenitor. Hence, the search for life on other planets is synonymous with the search for water.
This is why the river can serve as a microcosm of the ecology of the entire region. In “The River – Odyssey of Life”, we explore the rivers of Korea to learn about the creatures that reside there, and to ponder the cycle of life and death which occurs in perfect synchronization with the changing of the seasons.

2013 KIFF 3D FIA Chairman’s Prize: Sweet Rollercoater : The Fairies of Cake (스윗롤러코스터 : 케익위의 요정들)
Director 씨제이파워캐스트
Cinematographer
Stereographer CJPowercast
Type other
Country South Korea
Company CJPowercast
Category Short Film
Year of Production 2013
Summary

On the street of a little town in white Christmas, a girl is standing
by her grandpa who violin peacefully. She stares at the cake through the window of the bakery, The cake is beautifully decorated with the Fairies. As soon as the girl left the bakery, the Fairies on the cake become alive. And they started to make a special Cake for the girl . Are the fairies going to present the cake to the girl indeed….?
Please come and see the fairies Journey against the evil cat.

2013 KIFF Technical Grand Prize: NANTA 3D (난타 3D)
Director 김 상 일
Cinematographer
Stereographer KIM SANG IL
Type Narrative
Country South Korea
Company SBS
Category Feature Film
Year of Production 2012
Summary

While they are busy preparing the vegetables and organizing the kitchen, a bad tempered manager appears. He orders them to prepare food for a wedding by 6 o’clock in the afternoon. The cooks, who had not been told about this event, are caught completely off-guard. Not only that, the manager also brings his young nephew with him and demands that the cooks teach him how to cook and prepare food. The manager exits after barking out these seemingly impossible orders.
Although the cooks don’t like this clueless boy, they begin their works.. Peeling this here, chopping that there, and frying it over there, the whole kitchen rocks and rushes. While preparing for the reception, the boy and the cooks get closer, and the audience joins the show.
With their excellent cooperation, brilliant ideas and full performance, they finally have all the jobs done!
The wedding banquet draws to a successful conclusion.
A splendid party with ‘now four’ cooks and the manager! Their vigorous energy, overwhelming power and thrilling sound are all exploded at the finale. You can hardly resist rocking your body and the finale will long remain in your memory.

2013 KIFF Jury Prize: Miracle Land DMZ (기적의 땅 DMZ)
Director 민사연
Cinematographer
Stereographer Min Sa Yeon
Type Documentary
Country South Korea
Company 한국HD방송㈜
Category Feature Film
Year of Production 2013
Summary

The DMZ, where the 38th parallel divides the peninsula into South and North Korea.
The DMZ is sad history of Korea. This documentary is Environmental Documentary about DMZ.
All unique life lives in DMZ. Let’s go to coexistence place with weapon and life.

2013 KIFF Feature Film Best Picture: ENCIERRO 3D: Bull Running in Pamplona (ENCIERRO 3D: Bull Running in Pamplona)
Director Javier Cabanas Urdanoz
Cinematographer
Stereographer Javier Cabanas Urdanoz
Type Documentary
Country Afghanistan
Company Cabanas Urdanoz
Category Feature Film
Year of Production 2013
Summary

Every year thousands of men participate in one of the most dangerous events in the world: the Running with the Bulls in Pamplona (Spain). ENCIERRO is a documentary about the runners and tells the story as to why they run, why they participate in an event with no prize to win and that causes hundreds of injuries each year. It is an action packed feature length documentary in which emotions and tension stand central, charged with violence as well as beauty, offering drama and heroics. ENCIERRO transports the audience into the street of Pamplona and places the viewers in front of a charging herd of ferocious bulls and their lethal horns.

2013 KIFF Short Film Best Picture: LE GRAND COMBAT (LE GRAND COMBAT)
Director Jean-Nicolas Rivat
Cinematographer
Stereographer Fabienne Delaleau (BINOCLE)
Type other
Country France
Company C Ton Film Productions
Category Short Film
Year of Production 2012
Summary

The Big Showdown is a 3D short film that reveals different stages of awareness…
The awareness of Norbert, a man living a deliberately solitary life.
Further to a seemingly insignificant event, he will give way to paranoia and madness
before he realizes that his everyday life is no longer satisfying and that a new start has
become vital. What triggers off this radical change is a duel…
A duel between the man and a pigeon taking shelter out of his windowsill…
Being a very maniac person, the intrusion of pigeons in his everyday routine will lead the
way to Norbert’s brief but intense paranoid insanity crisis. When fighting to protect his
“territory”, which is to say his soothing daily life, against the invading bird, he is actually
fighting against himself. Norbert has to force himself to accept confronting the outside
world once again, thereby accepting the idea of a new life and opening up to hope.

2013 KIFF Short Film Best Picture: Penguins 3D (Penguins 3D)
Director Ben Missoul
Cinematographer
Stereographer Ben Missoul
Type Documentary
Country Belgium
Company nWave Pictures Distribution
Category Short Film
Year of Production 2013
Summary

Narrated by David Attenborough, “Penguins 3D” celebrates the destiny of a very special King Penguin, who returns to his birthplace in the sub-Antarctic. Known as Penguin City, the island is home to hundreds of albatrosses, fur seals and brawling elephant seals—as well as six million penguins! Somehow our hero must earn his place among the island inhabitants and fulfill his destiny by finding a mate and raising a family. What follows is the story of the most challenging time in a King Penguin’s life, when he is driven to nurture and defend his offspring against harsh weather and fierce predators. This cosmic drama plays out in one of Earth’s last great wildernesses, amid steep mountain ranges and windblown plains half buried beneath snow and ice. “Penguins 3D” is an unforgettable tale of one King Penguin’s journey through his species’ central rite of passage.

2013 KIFF Feature Film Grand Prize: Moon Glow (문글로우)
Director 장해랑
Cinematographer
Stereographer Alaric Hamacher
Type Documentary
Country South Korea
Company
Category Feature Film
Year of Production 2013
Summary

Living is all that matters.
They have overcome poverty, learned without teachers or sheet music, and performed in makeshift stages. Today, they keep track of the past while embracing the present.
Pianot ‘Shin Kwan-woong’,  Percussion ‘Ryu Bok-sung’, Vocal ‘Kim joon’, Saxophone ‘Kim soo-yeol’, Clarinet ‘Lee Dong-gi’, Trumpet ‘Choi sun-gae’, Drums ‘Lim Hyon-soo’
They make up the first generation Korea’s jazz players.
They have dedicated their entire lives to jazz, and while the jazz masters are reaching the age of 80, their passion for jazz has yet to die down.
They are still youths pursuing their dreams, and as part of those dreams, a performance featuring all of them on the same stage is about to begin.
Jazz changed their lives.
They have overcome much and come far to bring to us the jazz we know today. Despite their ordeals, they are very happy, and thanks to them, jazz in Korea is alive and well.

2013 KIFF Special Prize: Cosmic Encounter (Cosmic Encounter)
Director Jurgen Hansen
Cinematographer
Stereographer blank
Type Documentary
Country Germany
Company
Category Short Film
Year of Production 2012
Summary

Space is the ultimate frontier. „Cosmic Encounters“ tells one of the oldest dreams of mankind: To leave our planet and to explore what is beyond. For the first time in television history a tv documentary will be filmed in 3D in space by the astronauts of the International Space Station. A journey into the fascinating world of space exploration and a tribute to generations of scientists, technicians and visionaries who made the dream of conquering space become true.