March 11, 2010

The Florentine is mediapartner of Korea Film Festival in Florence

One of Europe's most prestigious film festivals dedicated to South Korean cinema returns to Florence from March 12 to 20 at the Odeon Cinema in Piazza Strozzi. Now in its eighth year,  the Florence Korea Film Festival, organized by the Taegukgi Association, has many innovations. The first is the change of its name, meant to reflect the festival's strong ties to Florence: ‘This year, we decided to add the word "Florence" to the official name of the festival to pay homage to the city that helped give rise to it. In this way, considering the international recognition of the festival, we hope to bring a piece of Florence to the Far East, thus helping to create and strengthen an intercultural dialogue between two worlds that are so far, geographically, from one another,' said the festival's director, Riccardo Gelli.

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