BUENOS AIRES – The Cartagena Film Festival (FICCI), the longest-running one in Latin America, said Monday that its 55th edition will honor South Korean filmmaker Kim Ki-duk and New Argentine Cinema pioneer Pablo Trapero, featuring retrospectives of their work and public conferences.
An boundless auteur since his 1996 debut film Crocodile, Kim Ki-duk has collected awards at major film festivals such as Berlin, Locarno, San Sebastian and Venice, where his latest film, One on One, picked up the Fedeora Award. Last year in Busan, Ki-duk offered 1 million won ($10,000) to anyone who guesses the events that inspired One on One, a film about seven murder suspects and their links with terrorism.
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