According to organizers, this year's festival, now in its 27th year, will run for 10 days and feature 237 films from 54 countries.
The festival's curtain-raiser is American filmmaker Kent Jones' "Late Fame," which tells the story of a poet whose secluded life is suddenly thrown into the spotlight after young admirers rediscover his long-neglected work.
A special retrospective event is also scheduled in honor of the late actor Ahn Sung-ki, who died in December last year after battling blood cancer.
Around seven lesser-known works from his decades-long career will be screened.
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