The 8th edition of Warsaw’s Five Flavours Film Festival will take place from November 12th to the 20th this year. Focusing on East and South-East Asian cinema, the Polish festival hopes to expose films unknown in the region. Korean films have been an important part of the festival, especially during its 5th edition, which featured a ‘Taste of Korea’ programme with eight titles, including subsections on HONG Sangsoo and Korean horror.
 
This year, four Korean films are part of the lineup. JANG Jin’s Man on High Heels will open up the festival while Bitter, Sweet, Seoul, from the PARKing CHANce (brothers PARK Chan-wook and PARK Chan-kyong), LEESONG Hee-il’s Night Flight and KIM Jee-woon’s The Good, the Bad, the Weird (2008) will also screen.

 

There are four sections in this year’s program: the New Asian Cinema Competition, Queer Asia, Wild Wild East and Horror Cinema. Newly ton the program this year is Radio Asia. This is an event-based section where new music from the East and South-East Asia will be introduced through concerts. Be-Being, who composed the soundtracks for Bitter, Sweet, Seoul and many other Korean films, will be performing in the one of the concerts.

 

The festival also features a special People’s Jury which is composed of 11 non-professionals chosen through an application process. Night Flight is the only Korean film in competition.