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With still several films not yet announced for the behemoth Toronto Int. Film Festival,  it appears that 2013 will be a significant cross-over year...

The headlines on Korean film sites might read "Korean films fail to get into main competition", but perhaps that's because the film scene here has gotten used to Cannes. Four Korean films have been recognized by the film festival. Three films have been selected to the Un Certain Regard category: Hong Sang-soo's "The Day He Arrived"; Kim Ki-duk's "Arirang" and Na Hong-jin's "The Yellow Sea". We'll unveil the fourth film below.

We were the first on the interwebs to mention Mitulescu, Dresen, Labaki, Pierre Schoeller, Joachim Trier and Bruno Dumont's L'Empire (now going by the title of Hors Satan) as strong contenders for the Un Certain Regard 2011 edition, but as usual there are a handful of titles/filmmakers particularly from Asia, that were completely off our radars. Added to the odd inclusion of Gus Van Sant's film announce yesterday, we're happy to see Kim Ki-duk again -- we hope that Arirang is a return to form for the filmmaker and the prolific Hong Sang-soo must be in some creative surge period in his life -- he will present The Day He Arrives in the same section he won last year with Hahaha. Both of these Cannes-selected films sandwich Oki's Movie - a film which he presented at Venice.

7:40 pm - Started today off with the film that took home the Golden Lion last week in Venice, Ki-duk Kim's Pieta.  Splitting opinions...

The Sydney Film Festival has now entered its second and final week, and with the city covered in advertising, I have yet to encounter...