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- Aug 20, 2012
A Werewolf Boy and Juvenile Offender to be shown at the Toronto International Film FestKorean films A Werewolf Boy and Juvenile Offender have been invited to the Contemporary World Cinema section at the 37th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). A Werewolf Boy stars SONG Joong-ki and PARK Bo-young and was the first to be invited. Junevile Offender features LEE Jung-hyun and SEO Young-joo in its main roles.A Werewolf Boy is director JO Sung-hee's commercial feature debut. It's a love story between a feral boy -- with a fiery body temperature of 46 degrees Celsius and an unknown blood type -- and a lonely girl who has shut herself off to the world.In KANG Yi-kwan's Juvenile Offender, a boy who is always in and out of the local youth detention center is reunited with his mother after 16 years and comes to face a startling truth. The film was commissioned and produced by the National Human Rights Commission of Korea and has drawn a lot of controversy for the topic it deals with.Director JO Sung-hee won the Best Picture Award at Seoul's Mise-en-Scene Short Film Festival in 2008 for his Don't Step out of the House and the third-place prize at the Cinefondation at Cannes. His graduation film, End of Animal, which he made in his final year at the Korean Academy of Film Arts, was invited to the Dragons and Tigers section of the Vancouver International Film Festival as well as the non-competition section of the International Film Festival Rotterdam.Director KANG Yi-kwan won the International Critics Award at the 30th edition of TIFF for his Sakwa (2005), which starred MOON So-ri, KIM Tae-woo and LEE Sun-kyun and screened in the fest's Discovery section. Unsurprisingly, his second invitation to TIFF is drawing much interest.Korean films that have been invited to the Contemporary World Cinema section in the past include KIM Ki-duk's Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter And Spring, The King and the Clown by LEE Joon-ik, LEE Chang-dong's Secret Sunshine, HUR Jin-ho's April Snow and IM Sang-soo's The President‘s Last Bang.This year's TIFF is also going to screen Korean director HUR Jin-ho's latest, the Chinese production Dangerous Liaisons, as well as actress BAE Doo-na's first foray into Hollywood, the sci-fi feature Cloud Atlas. These four features alone should draw the attention of anyone interested in contemporary Korean cinema. The 37th TIFF will open on September 6th and close on the 16th.
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