This year’s International Women’s Film Festival in Seoul begins in less than two weeks. I have attended the last two years of the festival and been able to see a number of great films. In 2008, there was a screening of the South Korean film TAKE CARE OF MY CAT (2001) that included a (translated) Q & A with the the director Jeong Jae-Eun. In 2009, one of the favorite films of that year, Kelly Reichardt’s WENDY AND LUCY, had its only Korean screening at the festival. The schedule for the festival is now available in English here. Among the films I’m looking forward to: Suzanne Schneider’s THE DAY WILL COME, Park Chan-ok’s PAJU, Margarethe von Trotta’s VISION, Claire Denis’ WHITE MATERIAL, and Hana Makhmalbaf’s GREEN DAYS. There are also sections on Post-98 Indonesian Women’s Cinema, Queer Cinema, and Films on Maternity. The festival includes features as well as many short works, and there is a short film and video competition. All the screenings take place at the Artreon cinema, located between Sinchon station and Ehwa Women’s University station on subway line #2. There are numerous events associated with the festival as well, such as the International Conference on Wednesday, April 14th. A rare chance to see films from the perspective of female directors, who are still woefully underrepresented in world cinema, especially Hollywood (the fact that Kathryn Bigelow was the first female director to win an Academy Award this year is a testimony to this).

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