The festival’s competitive genre lineup has added one more category this year, a ‘Sixth Sense’ program which will focus on films that don’t fall into the existing five categories, which are: ‘A City of Sadness’ (films with a social viewpoint), ‘A Short Film about Love’ (melodrama), ‘The King of Comedy’ (comedy), ‘The Extreme Nightmare’ (horror/fantasy) and ‘The 40,000 Blows’ (action/thriller). Winners from each section will receive a KRW 5 million (USD 4,330) cash prize.

Among notable previous winners, the 2014 awardee in The Extreme Nightmare section, JANG Jae-hyun’s 12th Assistant Deacon was expanded into last year’s enormously successful exorcism thriller The Priests with KIM Yun-seok and GANG Dong-won. GANG served on the jury which awarded the short during the 13th edition.

The committee that runs MSFF is a veritable who’s who of directing talent in the Korean film industry, which includes BONG Joon-ho, PARK Chan-wook, KIM Jee-woon and RYOO Seung-wan, among many others.

MSFF will announce its competition lineup for this year during the first week of May.