Chicago Filmmakers celebrates its 50th anniversary chicagoreader.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from chicagoreader.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
In 2008, American independent filmmaker Jon Jost traveled to South Korea, where he became a professor of graduate studies in the film department at Yonsei University in Seoul. In collaboration with two of his students, Moon Si-Hyun and Lee Sang-Woo, Jost helped create this three-part comedy-drama about the many guises of love. In Karma, Lee Sang-Woo directs himself in the leading role as a man who can't find his soul mate until he discovered a discarded mannequin and falls in love with the dummy. Moon Si-Hyun's segment, The Silence, concerns itself with a man who speaks at length about his spouse, but she only laughs or speaks in his memories in the present, she never utters a word. And Mr. Right, Jost's contribution, is a blunt portrait of a man who wants to get out of a failing relationship at any cost. Love In The Shadows was an official selection at the 2009 Rotterdam International Film Festival; Jost's film has also been screened separately as a short subject
Curtain rises on 21st Dhaka International Film Festival dhakacourier.com.bd - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from dhakacourier.com.bd Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The 21st edition of the Dhaka International Film Festival (DIFF), one of the longest-running cultural festivals in the country, officially began in the city Saturday, with 252 films set to be showcased from 71 countries till 22 January. Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen inaugurated the festival as chief guest, while civil aviation and tourism secretary Mokammel Hossain and