[News] 15th annual Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival comes to end.

[News] 15th annual Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival comes to end.
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The 15th Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival (PiFan) ended its festivities over the weekend after a closing ceremony on Friday followed by its post-festival period featuring special movies and encore run of the fest's award-winning films.

This year, some 17 films were handed awards at the ceremony on July 22, led by festival director Kim Young-bin, under the international competition for feature and short films as well as the European Fantastic Film Festival Federation Asian Award (EFFFF), Netpac Award, Fujifilm Eterna Award, PiFan Youth Film Academy Awards and the Distinguished Service Award.

The Best of Puchon prize went to French auteur Quentin Dupieux's thriller "Rubber," a feature about a tire that goes on a killing spree in the deserts of California. The pic was also invited to the Directors' Fortnight of Cannes Film Festival.

Mongolian director Bat-Ulzii Baatar won the jury's choice for his heist movie "Operation Tatar" while the best director award was handed to famed Korean helmed Na Hong-jin for his pic "The Yellow Sea."

Hong Kong actor Juno Mak scored the best actor prize for his role in psychosexual thriller "Revenge: A Love Story," while Swedish actress MyAnna Buring who played Shel in the U.K. hitman thriller "Kill List" won the best actress award.

Japanese auteur Shinagawa Hiroshi received the NH Nonghyup Citizen's Choice for his second feature "Slapstick Brothers."

PiFan 2011 Official Competition Awards

▶ Puchon Choice Feature: International Competition
- Best of Puchon: "Rubber" (by Quentin Dupieux, France)
-Jury's Choice: "Operation Tatar" (by Bat-Ulzii Baatar, Mongolia)
-Best Director: Na Hong-jin "The Yellow Sea"
-Best Actor: Juno Mak, "Revenge: A Love Story"
-Best Actress: MyAnna Buring, "Kill List"
- NH Nonghyup Citizen's Choice: "Slapstick Brothers" (by Shinagawa Hiroshi)

▶ Puchon Choice Short: International Competition
-Best Short Film: "Dead On Time" (by Kostas Skiftas, Greece)
-Jury's Choice for Short Film: "The Origin of Creatures" (by Floris Kaayk, the Netherlands)
-Best Koraen Short Film: "The Adult's Flesh" (by Jeong Ki-jeong, South Korea)
-Citizen's Choice for Short Film: "The Southern Plains" (by Otion: Oh Dong-wok, South Korea)

▶ European Fantastic Film Festival Asian Award (EFFFF)
-"Bloody Fight in Iron-Rock Valley" (by Ji Ha-jean, South Korea)

▶ Netpac Award
-"Hospitalite" (by Fukada Koji, Japan)

▶ Fujifilm Eterna Award
-"Bloody Fight in IRon-Rock Valley" (by Ji Ha-jean, South Korea)

▶ PiFan Youth Filn Academy Awards
-PiFan Chairman's Award: "The Cheater" (by Kim Seoung-kyuen, South Korea)
-PiFan Youth Film Academy Director's Award: "Misunderstanding" (Kim Soo-jung, South Korea)
-PiFan Executive Director's Award: "Like a Genie" (Min Soo-ji, South Korea)

▶ Distinguished Service Award
-Kim Kwang-hoe, Chairman of Gyeonggi Province's Culture, Sports and Tourism Committee