As each year close to Easter vacation, since a decade now, the partnership between the ‘Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival’ (BIFFF) and ‘Europa Korea private foundation’ gives you the opportunity to win free entrances for watching Korean movies.

The BIFFF 2012 takes place at “Tours & Taxis” in Brussels (Belgium).
Official website: http://www.bifff.net

This year, 3(+1) Korean movie sessions are scheduled:

• Mon. 9th April @ midnight: Night Fishing + Invasion of Alien Bikini
• Fri. 13th April @ 10pm: Hindsight (Poo-reun so-geum)
• Sat. 14th April @ 2pm: Poongsan (Poong-san-gae)

For instructions on how to win entrances, see at bottom of this post.

Night Fishing + Invasion of Alien Bikini

Monday 9th April @ midnight (00:00)
(!!! i.e. the night of Monday 9 to Tuesday 10 !!!)

Night Fishing

A fisherman is waiting to catch something from a remote pond under the full moon. When he reels in a big catch, he’s amazed to see that it’s not a fish but a young woman. She begins to talk to him about his lost daughter. The woman is a shaman who mediates between the worlds of the living and the dead.

There are not many 30 minutes films that get that much media attention as Night Fishing. It makes sense if you know we’re talking about Chan-wook “Old Boy” Park, who shot the film together with his brother Chan-kyong Park for 130.000 dollar on an iPhone 4. They put lenses on the phones and had some intensive postproduction done on the images. The result, awarded with a Golden Bear at the 2011 Berlinale, is a visually rich and intriguing addition to Park’s body of work. With a soundtrack by UhUhBoo Project, also responsible for the score for Park’s Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance.

Invasion of Alien Bikini

Young-gun is a very frustrated young man. He never had a girlfriend and is still a virgin. He puts all his energy and frustration in crime-fighting. Dressed up as a superhero and with a fake mustache to avoid being recognized, he patrols the streets of Seoul, looking for injustice. When Young-gun sees how three men are attacking Monica, a very attractive young woman, he doesn’t hesitate and throws himself into the fray. He succeeds in beating up the assailants and takes Monica to the only safe place he knows, his tiny flat. Wat Young-gun doesn’t know is that the guys he battered and bruised are actually government agents looking for a very dangerous creature from another planet. The alien has taken Monica as he host and if she manages to procreate before the sun rises, it will be the end of the world as we know it. And you’re not going to feel fine at all !

What’s often so wonderful about Korean genre cinema, is that it is not scared to mix very different genres. Horror dances with thriller, cheats with melodrama and sometimes even flirts with song and dance. It’s all possible ! The genre-bending Invasion of Alien Bikini, the crucial second feature of Young-doo Oh (The Neighbor Zombie), has a thematic resemblance to our 2004 Golden Raven, Save The Green Planet. A mentally troubled loner has to suffer a terrifying ordeal with the fate of the planet at stake. Alien Bikini offers the same experience, but for only 5000 dollar. And for that you get an inventive, energetic, funny, sexy and very weird little gem of a film. More than perfect for our 7th Orbit Asylum.

For full information about the movie, click on movie title !
4 0 x 2 places to win

Hindsight (Poo-reun so-geum)

Friday 13th April @ 10pm (22:00)

It all started during a group cooking class where forty year old Doo-hyeon is matched with Se-bin, who looks so sweet but has a temper like’s she’s permanently on the rag. The first stages of their flirt start nice and slow, with Se-bin gradually defrosting to Doo-hyeon’s charms. But temperatures will soon spike so much so that they’ll think they are alone in the world. There’s only one thing. Skeletons are jumping to come out of their closets. Doo-hyeon is careful to keep secret that he used to be a big shot in the mob and Se-bin prefers borrowing money from local gangsters rather that from a bank. As a result, to pay her debts, she is obliged to kill the middle-aged mobster who wants to recycle himself as a cook. In other words; her new lover!

Ten years after Il Mare, Hyun-seung Lee returns with this unique mixture of gangsters, romance and vengeance as only our Korean friends know how to do. Screened at the latest Berlinale, Hindsight possesses major star power with Kang-ho Song, lead of Chan-wook Park’s Thirst and Joon-ho Bong’s The Host, as the retired mobster who wants to open a restaurant.

For full information about the movie, click on movie title !
4 0 x 2 places to win

Poongsan (Poong-san-gae)

Saturday 14th April @ 2pm (14:00)

Poongsan, whose real name and life story are unknown, is a courier who crosses the demarcation line between the two Koreas, delivering everything from video games and letters to refugees between separated families in the two countries. One day he is commissioned to smuggle the lover of a high profile North Korean defector to the South. When something starts to bloom between Poongsan and the woman, the situation quickly escalates, even causing a stir on the governmental level.

Poongsan presents us with a cynical look at the complicated relationship between North and South Korea. The movie is intense from the start, with its mix of love, hope, loyalty, betrayal, cruelty and violence. It’s directed by Juhn Jai, but the door to international audience is opened by the name of its acclaimed producer and scriptwriter Ki-duk Kim (The Isle). Juhn Jai, who has worked as an assistant director for Kim, focuses on the physical instincts of his characters and does that in a very visual way. So expect some gruesome torture scenes! Poongsan tackles the thorny issue of no man’s land separating the two Koreas with the violence and the poetic flavor of a tragic romance that characterizes the Korean cinema in general and Kim Ki-duk in particular. This electrifying political romance-thriller will keep you on your toes from the beginning until the very end.

For full information about the movie, click on movie title !
4 0 x 2 places to win

How to win 2 places?

All the places have been distributed, sorry !! !

Condition:
Only 1 x 2 places per family name, email address and/or postal address!
First come, first served!! !

Use the “Contact form” http://planet.korea.be/contact-us/ and provide us the following mandatory informations:

• First name + Family Name
• Postal address
• Email address
• For which Korean film (Monday? Friday? Saturday) you’d like to get the entrances. Please give 2 choices by order of preferences.

PLEASE, make sure you’d be available on the date and time of the film session requested since entrances are not transferable !! !

Good luck!! !

Tanguy Verraes
Secretary General “Europa Korea” private foundation