Director Lee In-ui's movie "Gift" and Lee Dang-yeop's film "J, A Photographer In A Strange Village" have been invited to compete at the 2007 Bangkok International Film Festival, which opens July 19.

In the non-competition section, invited Korean movies include "Dasepo Girl," "No Mercy for the Rude," "Time" and "The Forty-Nine-Day Meetings."

Opening the festival will be "Children of Glory" from Hungary, instead of the originally scheduled animation film "Persepolis," which was turned down by the government.

Also invited to the festival were the head of the Pusan International Film Festival executive committee Kim Dong-ho and senior programmer Kim Ji-seok.