calendar>>September 22. 2012 Juch 101
Pyongyang Int'l Film Festival Draws Many Viewers
Pyongyang, September 22 (KCNA) -- The 13th Pyongyang International Film Festival is now going on before full houses.

Screened at theaters and cinemas here are more than 90 pieces of feature, documentary, short and children's films presented by 50 odd organizations in 30 odd countries.

Among the films enjoying popularity are a Chinese feature film "Blood" dealing with a storekeeper who works hard to help others in difficult living condition and a Russian feature film "House of the Wind", which shows a health worker taking paternal care of a child put at the door of death by an epidemic.

And they include German feature films "Goethe", "Big Hope" and "Close to Me", which were highly appreciated at other international film festivals, Italian feature film "The Rhabdomancer" and Pakistani feature film "Khuda Kay Live."

There are also films on the anti-aggression struggle and the people's optimistic life such as Indian feature film "Urumi, A Flexible Kalari Sword", Chinese feature film "Full Circle" and Iranian feature film "Love at Forty" and Cuban documentary "The Merit Is to Be Alive".

Meanwhile, Korean feature films, shown at the preview, and a DPRK-Britain co-produced film "Comrade Kim Goes Flying", presented as a competitive film, give deep impressions on the moviemakers and film actors and actresses from different countries.

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