By Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Chinese social drama film “Damp Season” was this week named as the Grand Prize winner at the Jeonju International Film Festival.
The well-established Korean festival has been held in largely virtual form this year in reaction to the coronavirus outbreak.
At the end of April, festival organizers confirmed that JIFF would go ahead May 28 to June 6, roughly a month after its usual late-April slot.
But they said that it would be stripped down to become “an exclusive edition with no public audience,” consisting of just three sections: an international competition; a Korean competition; and a competition for Korean-made short films.
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