22nd Busan International Film Festival

The 22nd Busan International Film Festival will be 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 will be screened at the festival, including 100 world premieres and 29 international premieres.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]

22nd Busan International Film Festival
Opening filmGlass Garden
Closing filmLove Education
LocationBusan Cinema Center
Founded1995
Hosted byJang Dong-gun
Im Yoon-ah
Festival dateOctober 12–21, 2017

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)

The Legendary Star, Shin Seong-il

World Cinema

Flash Forward

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

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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