We present the films that will be screened at the Korean Competition of the Jecheon International Music & Film Festival, which will take place from August 11 – 16, 2022 in Jecheon, South Korea.

With a cup of coffee, Jungwon is waiting for someone for a long time. We can hear some objects clutter in the guitar case. Jungwon keeps on waiting for the unknown until the coffee goes cold. (JIMFF 2022)

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While Canna is preparing for her Drag show, she comes across her sister’s ex-husband who also happens to be her first love. (JIMFF 2022)

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The late Park Sung-yeon, the Korea’s first full-fledged jazz singer ran Club Janus which is the first jazz club created by Koreans, for more than 40 years. Currently Club Janus has changed its name to “Diva Janus” and is being operated by Malo, a second-generation jazz singer. The documentary Diva Janus tells a story that how an individual, Park Sung-yeon became a stepping stone and took root in Korean jazz through her interviews, the songs she sang, and other jazz mutsicians’ interviews.​ (JIMFF 2022)

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The members of the band Cadejo have become floating spirits. They drift around here and there, and head for one location. They go through a lot of people and events. They clash and play music. Their past starts overlapping with the present and their existence breaks down. (JIMFF 2022)

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YeonKyeong, a 33-year-old woman decides to give up on her music after failing multiple auditions. She has been pursuing her dream of becoming a singer from the day she performed in a radio competition but she can’t go on anymore. One day, YeonKyeong receives a letter and a guitar from Hyunsoo, her high school friend she used to make music with. Perplexed by his letter, she embarks on a journey to Wolmi Island to say goodbye to her old dream. (JIMFF 2022)

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Taemin, Sihyeong and Jitae’s rock band ‘Hurricane Casper’ perform regularly in stage bars. When they make it to the finals in an audition, the lead singer Taemin is the only one who passes and they all go their separate ways. While Sihyeong and Jitae are searching for a new lead singer, they come across Taemin accidently. Overwhelmed with complex emotions, they recall their old memories on stage together.  (JIMFF 2022)

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Lee Sun-ho, the folklorist studying shamanism, is trying to get a faculty position at one of the universities in Seoul. After his third rejection from the universities, he leaves for Jeju Island to look for a new subject for his research. In Jeju, he meets Ahn Hae-ri, a young and beautiful lady shaman who is as highly respected as the national intangible cultural asset. To study Hae-ri’s rituals, Sun-ho becomes one of her assistants, at Mo Young-ri Shrine and they become close.  (JIMFF 2022)

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Ga-young, who is blind, is learning to live by herself after her father passed away. Then one day, she hears the news that the theater where his father worked as a projectionist will be gone, and so, she visits the theater. As Ga-young heads to the projection room only by following the sound and scent, she reunites with her father in the projection room, which was the biggest universe to her.  (JIMFF 2022)

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Pandora thought there would be no other choice when it came to opening the box. Pyrrha, on the other hand, found the box itself to be beautiful and captivating. A box is given to Pyrrha as the apocalypse draws near, and Pyrrha has to make a choice now. (JIMFF 2022)

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In the 1980s, Dongducheon base village. Hong spends a pleasant time with her older sister Yeon-ok. But the hostess disturbs Hong’s perfect daily life. (JIMFF 2022)

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The old musicians play in the shaded corner on the side of a stream under a bridge. Their music tells stories of their lives. (JIMFF 2022)

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Dongyun who is the lead soloist of the school choir might lose his spot in the choir because his voice beings to change as he enters puberty. Meanwhile, an air of tension has been building between Jungho and Miyeon for the past few months, and things seem to have taken a turn for the worse. He clings to the belief that if he performs well at the choir competition, his parents will be able to mend their relationship. (JIMFF 2022)

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Haeon writes songs for her band. She uses her grandmother’s poem for a song and wins an audition for a TV show. On the same day, she realized the poem plagiarized another song’s lyrics.

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Yeonghwa and Myungjin, studying Korean traditional music at the university, suffer from the death of their best friend Yuna. The Yeonghwa tries to share the sadness with Myungjin, but Myungjin keeps avoiding speaking about Yuna’s death, and their relationship starts to creak. (JIMFF 2022)

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A Korean woman, who is also an aspiring musician, goes on a pilgrimage to the country. On a quiet seafront on Jeju island, she meets a French guy who came to see his girlfriend but failed to. They are two different people but can communicate in English. Their conversation enables them to face the most important memories in their lives. (JIMFF 2022)

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Cinema Gwangju is the first theater in the Honam-region and the only theater that opened in 1935. The cinema has screened films in its original place up to these days. A musician Gonne Choi invites the seven musicians to share “Gwangju-ness” from her own perspective and they visit the cinema to speak and sing about their own “Withstanding and Existing”. This documentary also contains the story of the painter Park Tae-gyu, who continuously has been working on hand-painting movie posters from the 1990s until today. (JIMFF 2022)

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On the 1st of February, 2021, Myanmar’s Military launched air strikes against the Karen minority group. The news reminds K of his time in Karyn State 4 years back. K thinks of General Neda who wanted to build a community for Karen refugees, Khun from Thailand and the village children who helped him. He promised to fight for peace when General Neda sang “Wonderful Tonight” for him. Reminded of his forgotten promise, K roams the street aimlessly. Still, time eats away at his memories.  (JIMFF 2022)

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