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Korea Herald
10-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Korea Herald
Jeonju film fest announces ticket sales timeline
Festival offers priority booking for Jeonju locals and accessibility options ahead of April 30 opening The 26th Jeonju International Film Festival has announced a timeline for ticket sales ahead of its April 30 opening. The festival, running through May 9 under the slogan "Beyond the Frame," will screen 224 films from 57 countries across Jeonju's cinema district. Tickets for the opening and closing ceremonies will go on sale April 16 at 2 p.m. via the festival's official website. General screening tickets will be available starting April 18 at 11 a.m., also through the website. The tickets for the Jeonju Cine Tour X Music program -- an event where musicians perform live after screening films of their choice -- will be released separately on April 18 at 2 p.m., exclusively on Melon Ticket. Priority booking for viewers with disabilities will run from April 10 to 17 via a dedicated email application process. Group reservations for parties of 15 or more will be accepted after general ticket sales begin. Standard screenings are priced at 10,000 won, while masterclasses are set at 15,000 won. Event screenings and talk sessions run 12,000 won each. Premium events -- including the opening and closing ceremonies, midnight screenings, and the nine-hour screening of Claude Lanzmann's Holocaust documentary "Shoah" -- are priced at 20,000 won. Tickets for the Jeonju Cine Tour X Music program are available at 40,000 won. All tickets will be available for online purchase, while remaining seats can be purchased at box offices during the festival period. Jeonju residents, including local students and people working in the city, will have exclusive early access to a pre-sale box office from April 15 to 20, located on the fourth floor of the Jeonju Film Production Center. Each person may purchase up to two tickets per screening on site, using credit or debit cards only. Residents are also eligible for a 50 percent discount on regular screenings held at the Samsung Cultural Center at Jeonbuk National University, as well as on tickets to the closing ceremony. moonkihoon@
New York Times
17-02-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
Watching ‘Shoah' in Berlin, 80 Years After Auschwitz
On the first Sunday of this year's Berlin International Film Festival, Claude Lanzmann's 'Shoah' (1985) — a nine-and-a-half-hour documentary about the Holocaust — screened to a nearly full house in the auditorium of the city's Academy of Arts. Tricia Tuttle, the festival's new director, spoke before the film, along with a curator from Berlin's Jewish Museum and Dominique Petithory-Lanzmann, the director's widow. Tuttle called the screening a 'triple remembrance': This year is the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the 40th anniversary of 'Shoah,' and the centenary birthday of Lanzmann himself, who died in 2018. The mood was reverential. 'Shoah' — which consists of interviews with Holocaust survivors, bystanders and perpetrators, as well as footage of the sites referenced by the speakers, such as the Auschwitz and Treblinka death camps — is widely considered one of the greatest documentaries of all time. Its monumental length is key to its power; it suspends viewers in the act of witnessing humanity's capacity for evil and its astonishing resilience, which we see washed across the subjects' faces as they tell their stories. There's no denying Lanzmann's achievements or the significance of 'Shoah,' yet the festival's commemorative programming — which also includes the world premiere of 'All I Had Was Nothingness,' a documentary by Guillaume Ribot that pays homage to 'Shoah' — also plays out amid growing concerns that Germany's culture of Holocaust remembrance is stifling the free speech of other artists. Last year, the film festival, known here as the Berlinale, came under fire after filmmakers participating in the event (including the directors of 'No Other Land,' a documentary currently nominated for an Oscar) were denounced by German officials and festival executives for making statements in solidarity with Palestinians. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
