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Cannes has the yachts, sundance the ski chalets, Berlin the tormented critics. But if you're bored of those usual suspects, consider the continuous and colorful calendar of specialized screen festivals that take place in Asia. South Korea's Pusan International Film Festival - held in a port once known more for cuttlefish than cinematography - has won a permanent place of prestige in the global film industry's annual circuit of stars and schmoozers. There are plenty more below the radar, however, advancing good causes and, from time to time, good work. Here's a roundup of a half-dozen events...
...pictures of Kim Jong Il are no laughing matter to some gallery owners and officials, even if the satire is leaping off the canvas. Organizers removed a Sunmu painting of Kim Il Sung, Kim Jong Il's father and the founder of North Korea, from an international festival in Pusan last year. (See pictures of Kim Jong...
...Documentarian Nancy Heikin just wanted to see Japan with her husband, who was attending a human-rights conference, but ended up spending seven years recording the testimony of escapees from the brutal Pyongyang regime. To be seen at October's Pusan International Film Festival and released in South Korea afterward, Kimjongilia - the title is taken from the name of a begonia cultivated in honor of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il - is a harrowing night at the movies. (See pictures of the rise of Kim Jong...
...high school’s competitive atmosphere, dropped out, and studied on her own for the CSAT. She scored highly enough to go to Ewha University (the top-rated women’s college in Korea, and part of SKY’s emerging acronym rival, SKYPE, which adds Pusan and Ewha Universities to the older triad...
...38th parallel in an attempt to unify the bleak peninsula by force. They quickly swept through the outmanned and outgunned South Korean army. Even the intervention of U.S. soldiers five days later, assisted by a United Nations force, could not stop the advance until it had reached the Pusan perimeter, in the country's extreme southeast corner. But General Douglas MacArthur's bold amphibious counterattack at Inchon, behind the enemy lines, rolled back the North Koreans and resulted in the capture of their capital, Pyongyang. Just as the war appeared to be winding down, Chinese armies poured across the Yalu...