The 21st Busan International Film Festival was held from October 6 to October 15, 2016 at the Busan Cinema Center and was hosted by Sul Kyung-gu and Han Hyo-joo. A total of 301 films from 69 countries were screened at the festival, including 96 world premieres and 27 international premieres.[1][2][3]
A new Vision-Director Award was given to two promising directors of newly produced independent films in the Korean Cinema Today-Vision section, who have shown the most outstanding production skills. The winner will get a cash prize reward of 5,000 USD sponsored by MEGABOX.[4]
Five major South Korean domestic filmmakers' groups, including the Producers' Guild of Korea and the Directors' Guild of Korea, have boycotted this year's festival over a bitter dispute with the municipal government of Busan since the screening in 2014 of a controversial documentary about the Sewol ferry disaster in spite of the opposition from Busan mayor and BIFF organizing committee Chairman Suh Byung-soo.[5][6][7]
Program
Opening
Gala Presentation
A Window on Asian Cinema
New Currents
Korean Cinema Today - Panorama
Korean Cinema Today - Vision
- Autumn, Autumn - JANG Woo-jin (Korea)
- Baby Beside Me - SON Tae-gyum (Korea)
- Come, Together - Shin Dong-il (Korea)
- Hyeon's Quartet - AHN Seon-kyoung (Korea)
- Jamsil - LEE Wanmin (Korea)
- Jane - CHO Hyunhoon (Korea)
- Lost to Shame - Nam Yeon-woo (Korea)
- Picture of Hell - PARK Ki-yong (Korea/Japan)
- Second Winter - KIM Euigon (Korea)
- The Noises - MIN Je-hong (Korea)
- Yongsoon - SHIN Joon - (Korea)
Korean Cinema Retrospective
Lee Doo-yong: The Pathfinder of Korean Genre Films
World Cinema
Flash Forward
Wide Angle
Korean Short Film Competition
- Confessions - KIM Woo-hyun (Korea)
- Family Plan - CHUNG Jiyun (Korea)
- Heart On Fire - SUN Jonghoon (Korea)
- Her Secret Day - JUNG Inbong (Korea)
- Here with Me - Antoine AHN (Korea)
- Missing - YOO Dong-gyu (Korea)
- Mom's Rice Ball - YOO Yong-ji (Korea)
- Parade - NA Jihyun (Korea)
- Sleepless Night - HUR Jung-jae (Korea)
- The Bird Fights Its Way Out of The Egg - CHO Changgeun (Korea)
- The Boy is with Us - YOON Heewon (Korea)
- The Distance between Us - LEE Jung-gon (Korea)
- The Girl Burying Bodies - CHUN Juyoung (Korea)
- The Master : An Ordinary Man - YUN Puhui (Korea)
- The Noodle - KIM Sujin (Korea)
- Viewer - KIM Soyoun (Korea)
Asian Short Film Competition
- A Little Tiger - Nutthapon RAKKHATHAM (Thailand)
- Memoria - Kamila Andini (Indonesia/East Timor)
- Night-Fly - Aziz ZHAMBAKIYEV (Kazakhstan)
- Off-season - Yelzat ESKENDIR (Kazakhstan)
- Pain in Silence - LI Yujian (China)
- Supot - Phil GIORDANO (Philippines/United States)
- The Doomed Way - GUO Sanpi (China)
- The Limit - Sonia SAHARAN (India)
- The Robe - Wera AUNG (Myanmar)
- Year of the Bird - Shenang Gyamjo TAMANG (Nepal)
Short Film Showcase
- Art Through Our Eyes - Eric Khoo, HO Yuhang, Joko Anwar, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Brillante Mendoza (Singapore/Indonesia/Malaysia/Philippines/Thailand)
- Autumn Days - Tsai Ming-liang (Taiwan)
- Dadyaa - Bibhusan BASNET, Pooja GURUNG (Nepal/France)
- Following - Leesong Hee-il (Korea)
- Gerontophobia - Boris SVERLOW (Belgium/Netherlands)
- Imago - Raymund GUTIERREZ (Philippines)
- Madly - Sion Sono, Gael García Bernal, Anurag Kashyap, Natasha Khan, Sebastián Silva, Mia Wasikowska (United States/Argentina/Australia/India/Japan/United Kingdom)
- On the Origin of Fear - Bayu Prihantoro FILEMON (Indonesia)
- Single Belief - Lee Kang-sheng (Taiwan)
- Special Screening of Pixar Short Animations - Alvy Ray Smith and 14 others (United States)
- The Cameraman - Connor Gaston (Canada)
- Wind - SAW Tiong Guan (Malaysia)
Documentary Competition
- A Whale of a Tale - SASAKI Megumi (Japan/United States)
- Absent Without Leave - LAU Kek-Huat, CHEN Jing-Lian (Taiwan/Malaysia)
- Burmese on the Roof - OH Hyunjin, KO Duhyun (Korea)
- Farming Boys - BYUN Siyeon, JANG Sejung, KANG Hojun (Korea)
- Neighborhood - SUNG Seungtaek (Korea)
- Railways Sleepers - Sompot CHIDGASORNPONGSE (Thailand)
- SUN - WON Hoyeon (Korea)
- Sunday Beauty Queen - Baby Ruth VILLARAMA (Philippines/Hong Kong, China/Japan/United Kingdom)
- The Crescent Rising - Sheron DAYOC (Philippines)
- Those from the Shore - Tamara STEPANYAN (Lebanon/Qatar/Armenia/France)
- Time to Read Poems - LEE Soojung (Korea)
Documentary Showcase
Cinekids
- Friends Forever - A Pig's Tale - Theresa STROZYK, Tony LOESER (Germany)
- Get Santa - Jacob LEY (Denmark)
- McDull: Rise of the Rice Cooker - Brian Tse (Hong Kong, China)
- Mercy Street - Stefan BUZEA (Romania)
- The Mobarak - Mohammad Reza EMAMI (Iran)
Animation Showcase
Open Cinema
Special Programs in Focus
And Film Goes On: Abbas Kiarostami Retrospective
Cali Group: Root of Colombian Cinema
- Araucaima Mansion - Carlos MAYOLO (Colombia)
- Asuncion - Carlos MAYOLO, Luis OSPINA (Colombia)
- Blood and Rain - Jorge NAVAS (Colombia/Argentina)
- Crab Trap - Oscar RUIZ NAVIA (Colombia/France)
- Flesh of Your Flesh - Carlos MAYOLO (Colombia)
- Hammock - Carlos MAYOLO (Colombia)
- It All Started at the End - Luis OSPINA (Colombia)
- Listen Look - Luis OSPINA, Carlos MAYOLO (Colombia)
- Liveforever - Carlos MORENO (Colombia/Mexico)
- Pollution is... - Carlos MAYOLO (Colombia)
- Pure Blood - Luis OSPINA (Colombia)
- That 19th - Carlos MAYOLO (Colombia)
- The Towrope - William VEGA (Colombia/France/Mexico)
- The Vampires of Poverty - Luis OSPINA, Carlos MAYOLO (Colombia)
Midnight Passion
Closing
Awards
- New Currents Award
- The Donor - ZANG Qiwu (China)[9][10]
- Knife in the Clear Water - WANG Xuebo (China)
- BIFF Mecenat Award
- Neighborhood - SUNG Seungtaek (Korea)
- The Crescent Rising - Sheron DAYOC (Philippines)
- Sonje Award
- Viewer - KIM Soyoun (Korea)
- Off-season - Yelzat ESKENDIR (Kazakhstan)
- Actor & Actress of the Year Award
- FIPRESCI Award
- NETPAC Award
- Daemyung Culture Wave Award
- KNN Award
- Busan Bank Award
- Night of a 1000 Hours - Virgil Widrich (Luxembourg/Austria/Netherlands)
- Citizen Critics' Award
- Jamsil - LEE Wanmin (Korea)
- Busan Cinephile Award
- CGV Arthouse Award
- Jane - CHO Hyunhoon (Korea)
- Vision-Director's Award
- JANG Woo-jin - Autumn, Autumn (Korea)
- AHN Seon-kyoung - Hyeon's Quartet (Korea)
- The Asian Filmmaker of the Year
- Korean Cinema Award
- Laurence Herszberg (France)[12]
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