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Iraqi, South Korean films take top prize at Pusan
 
 
  
 
 By MIN LEE,AP Entertainment Writer -
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HONG KONG – An Iraqi-Japanese film about Kurdish refugees living in a dilapidated football stadium during Saddam Hussein's rule and a South Korean movie that follows a young poet's messy relationships won the top prize at one of Asia's leading film festivals Friday.
 
The Pusan International Film Festival's $60,000 New Currents award for young Asian filmmakers went to Shawkat Amin Korki's "Kick off" and So Sang-min's "I'm in Trouble," organizers said in a statement on the last day of the nine-day festival. The festival always names two films as winners.
 
The jury, chaired by French director Jean-Jacques Beineix, said it enjoyed Korki's "realistic, unexpected and poetic, almost surrealistic, vision to depict the precarious and hard life of a Kurdish Iraqi community that takes refuge in a football stadium."
 
The jurors said they were impressed by So's ability to "define his characters, control his story into very well elaborated long takes, which gives the movie a special tone."
 
Special mention went to Giuseppe Bede Sampedro's Philippine production "Squalor," which profiled four men living in Manila.
 
The other jurors were Turkish director Yesim Ustaoglu, Thai filmmaker Pen-ek Ratanaruang, Taiwanese actress Terri Kwan and South Korean cinematographer Kim Hyung-koo.
 
The new $20,000 Flash Forward award for young, non-Asian directors went to Zaida Bergroth's German-Finnish family drama "Last Cowboy Standing." Norwegian-Taiwanese director Hakon Liu's "Miss Kicki," about a young Western man who visits his father's home Taiwan, won special mention.
 
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
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