KOREAN Indonesia Film Festival (KIFF) will be present on 31 October—3 November 2024 in three cities, Jakarta, Bandung and Palembang. KIFF 2024 will be the 15th holding of this film festival.
This year, KIFF will open with an Indonesian film adaptation of the South Korean film with the same title, My Annoying Brother. The film adaptation, starring Vino G. Bastian, Angga Yunanda, Caitlin Halderman, and Kristo Immanuel, will be shown in Indonesian cinemas starting October 24 2024.
KIFF 2024, in total, will feature 19 South Korean and Indonesian films. Apart from My Annoying Brother, a number of films were screened, including Alienoid: Return to the Future, The Roundup: Punishment, The Plot, Escape, Project Silence, I, The Executioner, Beautiful Audrey, Pilot, Victory, Exhuma, Laut Tengah, Laura, Siksa Kubur, and Kang Mak from Pee Mak. Apart from that, this year KIFF also brought the South Korean indie film, Bori and the musical film, Apres Girl. Tickets for each film cost IDR 15 thousand, which can be purchased starting October 25 on the CGV application and website, as the cinema network where KIFF 2024 will be held.
“For 15 years, KIFF has been an important bridge for Korean and Indonesian people to better understand each other’s culture. This year’s KIFF will have indie films, short films and Korean musical films being shown for the first time. One of the interesting things is films remake My Annoying Brother, which is a remake of a Korean film. “Hopefully, when Indonesian audiences watch it, they can better understand the essence of the film,” said Director of the Korean Cultiral Center Indonesia (KCCI) Kim Yong-woon during the KIFF 2024 press conference at CGV Grand Indonesia, Tuesday, (22/10).
The producer and writer of the film adaptation of My Annoying Brother, Sheila Timothy, said that the universal language of love between brothers and sisters can also be translated into various societies. Because of this, he also included many local Indonesian elements in the film to give the characters more life and have in-depth story layers.
“In the original film, there are lots of relationships between brothers and sisters who don’t get along, which is a bit strange. And there is no such habit in Indonesia. We change and replace scene. Apart from that, which also differentiates the Indonesian version of the film from the original, we added background stories to the characters sidekick“nya,” said the woman who is familiarly called Lala during a press conference. (M-1)
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