Korean films – Yoon Sung-hyun’s “Boys into the Night” and Park Jung-bum’s “The Journals of Musan” won the New Currents competition at the 15th Pusan International Film Festival.
“The Journals of Musan” is a drama about North Korean defectors trying to adjust in their new home in the South, and “Boys into the Night” (also known as “Bleak Night”) is the story of a father who traces the mysterious death of a boy.
The Flash Forward Award for new non-Asian filmmakers went to Swedish director Lisa Langseth’s “Pure,” the coming-of-age story of a 20-year-old woman.
Read more in the Hollywood Reporter
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