22nd Busan International Film Festival

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22nd Busan International Film Festival
Opening film Glass Garden
Closing film Love Education
Location Busan Cinema Center
Founded1995
Hosted by Jang Dong-gun
Im Yoon-ah
No. of films300
Festival dateOpening: October 12, 2017 (2017-10-12)
Closing: October 21, 2017 (2017-10-21)
Busan International Film Festival

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]

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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 Anucha Boonyawatana at ASEACC 10, Yogyakarta, 2018-07-25.jpg
Anucha Boonyawatana; her film Malila: The Farewell Flower was among those screened

New Currents

Korean Cinema Today - Panorama

Korean Cinema Today - Vision

Korean Cinema Retrospective

The Legendary Star, Shin Seong-il

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

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