Film festival in South Korea
The 22nd Busan International Film Festival was held from October 12 to October 21, 2017 at the Busan Cinema Center and hosted by Jang Dong-gun and Im Yoon-ah . A total of 300 films from 75 countries were screened at the festival, including 100 world premieres and 29 international premieres.[ 1] [ 2] [ 3] [ 4] [ 5] [ 6] [ 7] [ 8]
On October 15, 2017, President Moon made a surprise visit to the festival, promising noninterference and support for the festival. He also hopes BIFF will restore to its former glory and into a more prominent international film festival.[ 9]
A new Kim Jiseok Award was setup to commemorate the late Kim Jiseok , the Deputy Director and Program Director of Busan International Film Festival, who died in May 2017. Kim, also a founding member of the Busan International Film Festival, had since 1996, devoted himself to developing the Busan International Film Festival into a world-renowned film festival in Asia.[ 10] [ 11]
Program
Opening
Gala Presentation
A Window on Asian Cinema
Anucha Boonyawatana; her film Malila: The Farewell Flower was among those screened
New Currents
After My Death - Kim Ui-seok (Korea)
Ajji - Devashish Makhija (India)
Ashwatthama - Pushpendra SINGH (India/Korea)
Blockage - Mohsen GHARAEI (Iran)
End of Summer - Zhou Quan (China)
How to Breathe Underwater - KO Hyunseok (Korea)
Last Child - SHIN Dongseok (Korea)
The Last Verse - TSENG Ying-Ting (Taiwan)
One Night on the Wharf - HAN Dong (China)
Somewhere Beyond the Mist - CHEUNG King Wai (Hong Kong, China)
Korean Cinema Today - Panorama
Korean Cinema Today - Vision
Black Summer - LEE Weonyoung (Korea)
Counting the Stars at Night - CHOI Yongseok (Korea)
February - KIM Joonghyun (Korea)
A Haunting Hitchhike - JEONG Heejae (Korea)
Hit the Night - JEONG Gayoung (Korea)
Home - KIM Jongwoo (Korea)
Microhabitat - JEON Gowoon (Korea)
Mothers - Lee Dong-eun (Korea)
Park Hwa-young - LEE Hwan (Korea)
Possible Faces - LEE Kanghyun (Korea)
A Tiger in Winter - Lee Kwang-kuk (Korea)
Korean Cinema Retrospective
World Cinema
Flash Forward
Wide Angle
Korean Short Film Competition
Away from Home - LEE Hyebeen, IM Soojin (Korea)
Beloved - LIM Seungmi (Korea)
Bright Future - HUR Jungjae (Korea)
Freeway - HWANG Seulgi (Korea)
A Friend Holding Crutches - KIM Soyeon (Korea)
Goner - KIM Hanra (Korea)
A Hand-written Poster - KWAK Eunmi (Korea)
The History of Hormone - PARK Jonghyun (Korea)
Illegal Parking - LEE Inhyuk (Korea)
Love Jo. Right Now. - JEONG Gayoung (Korea)
My Father in a Suitcase - KIMO Jisook (Korea)
Ordinary People - KIM Moonkyeong (Korea)
Playground - CHOI Cho-ah (Korea)
The Virgin Flight - HAN Seungju (Korea)
Yuri in Summer - KIM Seohyeon (Korea)
Asian Short Film Competition
Cemetery of Courtesy - CHONG Keat Aun (Malaysia)
Chronicle of a Durian - YANG Xiao (China)
A Curious Girl - Rajesh Prasad KHATRI (Nepal)
The Day I Am Gonna Come - HONG Cheng (China)
Madonna - Sinung WINAHYOKO (Indonesia)
Myth - HAO Fang-Wei (Taiwan)
NAGISA - KOGAHARA Takeshi (Japan)
The Road - Arash KHAYATAN (Iran)
Suerte - Carlo FAJARDA (Philippines)
Two Brothers - Raghbir SINGH (India)
Short Film Showcase
667 - LIAO Jiekai, HE Shuming, Boo Junfeng , CHONG Jun, Kirsten TAN, Eva TANG (Singapore)
Braguino - Clément COGITORE (France)
Death of the Sound Man - Sorayos PRAPAPAN (Thailand/Myanmar)
Gaze - Farnoosh SAMADI (Iran/Italy)
A Gentle Night - QIU Yang (China)
Jodilerks Dela Cruz, Employee of the Month - Carlo Francisco MANATAD (Philippines/Singapore)
Tshweesh - Feyrouz SERHAL (Lebanon/Germany/Spain/Qatar)
Where Has Time Gone? - Walter Salles , Alexey FEDORCHENKO, Madhur Bhandarkar , Jia Zhangke , Jahmil X.T. QUBEKA (China/Brazil/Russia/India/South Africa)
Documentary Competition
Ha Dong Chae Bok: A Song of Two Humans - NAM Seungsuk (Korea)
I've Got a Little Problem - ZHANG Ximing (China)
I Want to Go Home - Wesley Leon AROOZOO (Singapore/Japan)
In the Claws of a Century Wanting - Jewel MARANAN (Philippines/Germany/Qatar)
Letters - YUN Jéro, Marte VOLD (Korea/Norway)
REBORN - IM Heungsoon (Korea)
Sennan Asbestos Disaster - Kazuo Hara (Japan)
Soseongri - PARK Baeil (Korea)
Tarling is Darling - Ismail Fahmi LUBIS (Indonesia)
The Whispering Trees - HEO Chulnyung (Korea)
Documentary Showcase
After Chosun - MUN Jeonghyun (Korea)
Behrouz: A Legend on Screen - Sepehr MIKAILIAN (United States)
Blood Amber - LEE Yong Chao (Taiwan/Myanmar)
A Cambodian Spring - Chris Kelly (Cambodia/United Kingdom/Ireland/Canada)
Courtesy to the Nation - GWON Gyungwon (Korea)
Ecology in Concrete - Jeong Jae-eun (Korea)
Ex Libris: The New York Public Library - Frederick Wiseman (United States)
A Feeling Greater Than Love - Mary JIRMANUS SABA (Lebanon)
A Free Man - Andreas HARTMANN (Germany/Japan)
Goodbye My Love North Korea - KIM Soyoung (Korea)
Hugo - Wojciech KLIMALA (Poland)
I've Got the Blues - Angie CHEN (Hong Kong, China/France)
A Little Wisdom - KANG Yuqi (Nepal/Canada/China)
Makala - Emmanuel GRAS (France)
Mountain - Jennifer Peedom (Australia)
Mrs. Fang - Wang Bing (Hong Kong, China/France/Germany)
Vibration: THE YELLOW MONKEY - MATSUNAGA Daishi (Japan)
The Work - Gethin ALDOUS, Jairus MCLEARY (United States)
Cinekids
Animation Showcase
Open Cinema
Special Programs in Focus
Suzuki Seijun: A Drifter across the Lines List
Sakha Cinema: World of Magical Nature and Myth
24 Snow - Mikhail BARYNIN (Russia)
Deliverance - Gennady BAGYNANOV (Russia)
Fisherman - Vyacheslav SEMYONOV (Russia)
His Daughter - Tatyana EVERSTOVA (Russia)
Keskil 2: Rematch - Dmitry SHADRIN, Alexey EGOROV, Roman DOROFEYEV (Russia)
Mappa - Alexey ROMANOV (Russia)
Outlaw - Stepan BURNASHOV (Russia)
Premonition - Mikhail LUKACHEVSKY, Prokopy NOGOVITSYN (Russia)
Summer Homestead - Anatoly Vasiliev (Russia)
The Marvelous Time - Nikita ARZHAKOV (Russia)
While There Is Wind - Sergey POTAPOV (Russia)
Wooden Horse - Prokopy NOGOVITSYN (Russia)
Midnight Passion
Closing
Awards
New Currents Award
BIFF Mecenat Award
Soseongri - PARK Baeil (Korea)
Sennan Asbestos Disaster - Kazuo Hara (Japan)
Sonje Award
A Hand-written Poster - KWAK Eunmi (Korea)
Madonna - Sinung WINAHYOKO (Indonesia)
Actor & Actress of the Year Award
FIPRESCI Award
Last Child - SHIN Dongseok (Korea)
NETPAC Award
February - KIM Joonghyun (Korea)
Kim Jiseok Award [ 10]
KNN Award
Busan Bank Award
Pulse - Stevie CRUZ-MARTIN (Australia)
Citizen Critics' Award
Possible Faces - LEE Kanghyun (Korea)
Busan Cinephile Award
A Free Man - Andreas HARTMANN (Germany/Japan)
CGV Arthouse Award
Microhabitat - JEON Gowoon (Korea)
Vision-Director's Award
February - KIM Joonghyun (Korea)
Hit the Night - JEONG Gayoung (Korea)
The Asian Filmmaker of the Year
Korean Cinema Award
Christoph Terhechte (Germany)
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