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Top Cineastes to Grace Art Film Fest

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By Lee Hyo-won

Staff Reporter

That special time of the year has come around, when South Korea's top filmmakers and actors turn into film festival programmers. The 4th Cinematheque Friends Film Festival will take place Jan. 29-March 1 in Seoul, and director Park Chan-wook and some 20 other cineastes will meet with the audience to show and discuss 26 movies they have personally selected.

``I don't think there is a film festival like the Cinematheque Friends Film Festival anywhere else in the world,'' Park told reporters last week in Seoul. ``Where else can you see all the representative cineastes ― directors, critics and stars ― gather in