“Seoul Net & Film festival makes avant-garde of the past and avant-garde of the future dialogue with each other” - Cahiers du Cinema, 2004. 1

Since its inception in 2000, Seoul Film festival (a.k.a. SeNef) has continually strived for the diversity of innovative cinematic form created under the new paradigm in which art, technology, and culture are all closely interconnected. It has been devoted to promote innovative cinema and explore creativity in moving image culture in the age of digital, with a variety of film, video, installation, new media, via both internet screenings and theatrical ones. The most recent festival introduced 265 works from 26 countries, and had attendance of about 50,000 audiences. As one of most prospective festivals in Asia, Seoul Film Festival will expand itself to new showcase for a series of new cinematic forms in the context of changing media environment, with a number of figures who have made a significant creative contribution to film aesthetics and extension of cinematic possibilities.

Sections
1. International Feature Film Competition
An international section of feature-length works regardless of genre (feature film, documentary, experimental, and animation) and medium (film, digital, and mixed media). This section is dedicated to works which can question aesthetical and existential premises and present possibilities of future cinema, and ones which can extend director’s insight to viewpoint to world in which we live.
- SeNefia Grand Prix: 6000 USD
- Jury’s Special Award: Supplementary prize

2. National Feature Film Competition
The first feature film competition section for only domestic films which explore the potential possibilities to Korean cinema regardless of genre and medium. This section places a special emphasis on presenting a new generation of Korean filmmakers who appear in their first feature film.
- First Cut Award: 5000 USD

3. Digital Express
This section is dedicated to digital cinema, from short/feature-length works created on digital media or using digital media techniques. This is composed of two categories: Korean film’s digital showcase which reflects on its aspects of Korean digital filmmaking, and Digital Cinema choice which shows representative digital cinema from around the world.

4. Over the Cinema
Official non-competition section for directors whose works have contributed to film history or Moving Image history and for new currents of contemporary world cinema. This section is now open to works and projects dealing with traditional and future forms of the moving image regardless any kinds of format.

5. Manifesta
Special program dedicated to Maestro who is exploring formal characteristics of cinema in history of cinema. It will catalyze new aesthetics of moving image as contemporary and frontiers.

6. Imagedoc: cinema electronique, video art, digital image
Special program for presenting various forms for sound and moving image, from experimental films to contemporary artists’ film and video works. This section is an interdisciplinary program mingled with cinema electronic, video art, and digital image.

7. Asia in Focus
Asia network program for presenting an Asian cinema today selected by Asian critics and festival programmers.

8. SeNefian Midnight
Midnight program for young vivid audiences with shocking and visceral films, along with screenings-in-club of music videos, documentary/feature for pop music, VJ imagery with DJ performance. (‘Jukebox Midnight)

9. Samsung Media Lounge
Exhibition program in art gallery which presents technologically expanded cinema with increasing success on the Moving Image as art and Time-based media. This section will show on multi layers from cinematic installations to interactive media art.