20 Films you shouldn’t miss at the 18th Jecheon International Music & Film Festival (Part 2)

By Asian Film Festival on July 27, 2022 • ( 1 Comment )

We continue with our list of feature films that you shouldn’t miss at the 18th Jecheon International Music & Film Festival, which will take place from August 11 – 16, 2022 in the city of Jecheon, South Korea.

– Selected Feature Films – (Part 2)

**Notes From Unknown** by Gwon Hajeong, Kim A-hyun – Korea | 2021 – 86 minutes
**Section**: Dynamic Feature

Just before Lee Seungyoon became famous after winning the music audition TV program Sing Again, two women just went to unknown-musician Seungyoon without any notice. One day in 2018, the two women, going through a very tough time, happened to listen to his song and it healed their wounded hearts. After two years, they boldly suggested him to make his music video without any experience. Starting with the ridiculous proposal, their adventurous journey began. (JIMFF 2022)

Screening:
August 13, 2022 | Saturday | CGV Jecheon 2 | 20:00 pm

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**Nothing Compares** by Kathryn Ferguson – Ireland, UK | 2022 – 100 minutes
**Section**: Official international Competition | Korean Premiere

Nothing Compares is the story of Sinéad O’Connor’s phenomenal rise to worldwide fame and how her iconoclastic personality resulted in her exile from the pop mainstream. Focusing on her prophetic words and deeds from 1987-1993, the film reflects on the legacy of this fearless trailblazer through a contemporary feminist lens. (JIMFF 2022)

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**Other People** by Aleksandra Terpinska – Poland, France | 2021 – 100 minutes
**Section**: Official International Competition | Korea Premiere

An urban drama about Kamil, a wannabe-rapper who should be getting his life and career going but instead gets high, roams around the city, and starts an affair with a bored, rich housewife Iwona, who feels invisible in her marriage and looks for oblivion and ease by taking uncontrolled doses of antidepressants. It’s a polyphonic story about isolated people dreaming of love in the big city. Based on a best-selling novel by cult Polish author Dorota Masłowska. (JIMFF 2022)

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**Poser** by Ori Segev, Noah Dixon – USA | 2021 – 87 minutes
**Section**: Official International Competition | Asian Premiere

Wallflower Lennon Gates yearns for access to the inner sanctum of the underground music scene in Columbus, Ohio. When she creates a podcast to interview the local artists she adores, Lennon discovers her own musical ambitions, develops a fast friendship with the striking, confident performer Bobbi Kitten, and in the process creates an identity not wholly her own. Soon, Lennon’s aspirations, with some constructive coaxing from Bobbi to find her voice, lead her down a path of dark obsession. (JIMFF 2022)

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**Sirens** by Rita Baghdadi – USA, Lebanon | 2022 – 78 minutes
**Section**: Official International Competition | Korean Premiere

On the outskirts of Beirut, Lilas and her thrash metal bandmates, Shery, Maya, Alma, and Tatyana, have big dreams but few opportunities. When the band’s appearance at a UK music festival isn’t the life-changer they had hoped for, Lilas comes home to Lebanon on the brink of collapse. At the same time, the complicated friendship between Lilas and her fellow guitarist Shery starts to fracture. The future of her band, her country, and her dreams are now all at stake, and Lilas faces a crossroads. (JIMFF 2022)

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20-Year-Old Soul* by Akiyama Jun – Japan | 2022 – 136 minutes
**Section**: Official International Competition | International Premiere

Asano Taigi is a member of the brass band club of Funabashi Municipal High School. He takes up the challenge of writing an original cheering song for the baseball team of Ichifuna. Although difficulties with composition, he creates the legendary cheering song, Ichifuna Soul This goes on to be called the “god-like cheering song.” After graduating from high school, one day, Taigi experienced acute pain and sickness. His test results reveal that his body is being attacked by cancer… (JIMFF 2022)

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**Sound of Memories** by Choi Sejin – Korea | 2022 – 165 minutes
**Section**: Dynamic Feature | World Premiere

Min-seok is contacted by his ex-girlfriend who broke up with him 5 years ago but she stands him up. Jong-beom quits doing music to make money by tutoring math. Ji-yul drops out of a band and begins making his own, new kind of music. (JIMFF 2022)

Screening:

August 13, 2022 | Saturday | Megabox Jecheon 5 | 13:00 pm (With Q&A)

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**The Cave** by Lee Young-ah – Korea | 2021 – 112 minutes
**Section**: Dynamic Feature

After her husband’s sudden passing, Min-hee moves to Jeju Island with a few unresolved questions in mind. She settles into the house he had always wanted, and gets to know a neighbor named Mok-ha and her twenty-year-old son, Tae-kyung. She takes a liking to self-confident and exuberant Mok-ha, but at the same time, has odd feelings toward Tae-kyung. As Min-hee learns more about them, she is swept over by turbulence of emotions. (JIMFF 2022)

Screening:
August 14, 2022 | Sunday | CGV Jecheon2 | 13:00 pm (With Q&A)

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**We Don’t Dance for Nothing** by Stefanos Tai – USA, Canada, Hong Kong, Philippines | 2022 – 86 minutes
**Section**: Dynamic Feature | Korea Premiere

Captured amid the Hong Kong protests, We Don’t Dance for Nothing is a photo-montage love letter to the Filipina domestic workers of Hong Kong and their passion for dance. H, a young domestic worker who plans to run from Hong Kong towards her dreams of love with another woman Sampa, independence, and freedom. (JIMFF 2022)

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**Withstanding and Existing** by Gwon Churl – Korea | 2022 – 64 minutes
**Section**: Official Korean Competition

Cinema Gwangju is the first theater in the Honam-region and the only theater that opened in 1935. The cinema has screened films in its original place up to these days. A musician Gonne Choi invites the seven musicians to share “Gwangju-ness” from her own perspective and they visit the cinema to speak and sing about their own “Withstanding and Existing”. This documentary also contains the story of the painter Park Tae-gyu, who continuously has been working on hand-painting movie posters from the 1990s until today. (JIMFF 2022)

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