21st Jecheon International Music & Film Festival : International Competition Grand Prize

Songs Within
Katalin Gödrös(Director)
Switzerland, Luxembourg | 2024 | Asian | 103min | DCP | Color | | Classic

President of the Jury

Lee DonghaPresident of the Jury

He worked as a producer on films including Poetry(2010), Hwayi: A Monster Boy(2013), and A Brand New Life(2009). In 2014, he founded REDPETER FILMS, producing works such as Train to Busan(2016), Peninsula(2020), and The Bequeathed(2024). Since 2024, he has been serving as the head of the Producers Guild of Korea.

Kim Cho-hee

Born in Busan in 1975, she majored in French literature and earned a master’s degree in film theory from Paris 1 University. From 2008 to 2015, she worked as a producer on over ten independent films. She directed works such as Lucky Chan-sil(2019) and Back to the Hong Kong(2022).

Yoo Ji-tae

A leading Korean actor who made his debut with the film Bye June in 1998. He has appeared in works such as Ditto (2000), One Fine Spring Day (2001) and Oldboy (2003), and has also directed films including The Bike Boy (2003), Invitation (2009), and Mai Ratima (2012).

21st Jecheon International Music & Film Festival: Music InSight - Grand Prize

Exhuma
Kim Taeseong(Music Director)
Korea | 2024 | 134min | DCP | Color | | Korean Traditional Music, Korean Traditional Music

21st Jecheon International Music & Film Festival: Music InSight - Jury Special Mention

Idiot Girls and School Ghost: School Anniversary
Lee Geonho(Music Director)
Korea | 2024 | 90min | DCP | Color | Classic, Jazz, Pop, Rock, World Music

President of the Jury

Jérôme Paillard

He is the founder of Cinando and cofounder of Ventana Sur. He served as CEO of the Marché du Film at the Cannes for 27 years and is currently working as a consultant for films and events.

Garin Nugroho

He graduated from the Faculty of Law at University of Indonesia and the Faculty of Film and TV at Jakarta Institute of Arts. Recognized as a pioneer of the new generation of Indonesian cinema since the 1990s, he has received numerous awards both domestically and internationally.

Song Gyeongwon

He is a journalist and a film critic at Cine21. He made his debut as a critic in 2009 when he won the Cine21 Film Criticism Award, and in 2012 he completed the doctoral coursework in film theory at Dongguk University’s Graduate School of Film and Digital Media.

21st Jecheon International Music & Film Festival: New Talent - Grand Prize

The Game of Sisyphus
Youm Seungho(Music Director)
Korea | 2025 | 23min | DCP | Color | |Fiction | Soundtrack

21st Jecheon International Music & Film Festival: New Talent - Jury Special Mention

Gravity of Living
Yoon Heesub(Music Director)
Korea | 2025 | 36min | DCP | Color | Others | Jazz

President of the Jury

Cho Young-wuk

He has worked as a music director on a wide range of films, including The Contact(1997), Joint Security Area(2000), The Classic(2003), and Oldboy(2003). More recently, he composed the music for the six-part BBC miniseries The Little Drummer Girl(2018) and Decision to Leave(2022).

Aleksandra Zakharchenko

Originally from Kyiv, Ukraine, she has been based in France since 2012 and has led the Industry Programs at the Marché du Film-Festival de Cannes since 2019.

Kim Hee-jung

She is a screenwriter and film director, currently serving as a full-time professor in the Department of Creative Writing at Chosun University. She directed films such as Grape Candy(2012), Snow Paths(2015), and French Woman(2020). Her latest work, Where Would You Like to Go? was screened as Closing Film at the Jeonju International Film Festival in 2023.

Kim Songhee

She is the editor-in-chief of Big Issue Korea. A former journalist at Cine21, she has also written about popular culture for High Cut, Nylon Korea, and 10 Asia.

Lee Yoochae

A Journalist of Korean weekly film magazine Cine21. She received the 2022 Democratic Press Practice Award for Confessions of a newcomer writer: A report on unfair contracts among emerging Korean film directors and screenwriters.

Im Sooyeon

Majored in Physics Education and Economics at Seoul National University. She worked as a reporter for the web magazine Eyes and later as the head of the reporting at Cine21, writing reports covering various sectors of the media industry.

Lee Yongcheol

As a film critic, he contributes articles and gives lectures for Cine21, the Korean Film Archive, and Seoul Art Cinema. His books include The K-Content Code, The Bong Joon-ho Code, Ruben Östlund and Mia Hansen-Løve.

Lim Sae-eun

A film critic, she studied film at Dongguk University and Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University. She is currently working as a programmer for the Daejeon Railroad Film Festival.