All Busan articles – Page 15
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NewsBusan appoints new heads of festival and market
Appointments follow the recent departure of Jay Jeon.
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NewsJay Jeon to exit as director of Busan International Film Festival
Jeon posted about his departure on social media, taking BIFF organisers by surprise.
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Reviews‘Tigers’: Busan Review
A rivetting look at the price of sporting fame from Sweden’s Ronnie Sandahl
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News‘A Balance’, ‘Three’ take New Currents awards at Busan film festival closing
BIFF managed to achieve physical admissions of 29,135 despite pandemic social distancing requirements.
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NewsBusan market wraps with ‘Commodity’ winning top award
Director Kislay’s Indian project is about an aspiring scriptwriter who accompanies a human hair trader to get material for his script.
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News‘Parasite’ wins top prize at Asian Film Awards
Wang Xiaoshuai took the best director prize for So Long, My Son.
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FeaturesFive hot new Korean filmmakers making their debuts at Busan
Screen profiles five Korean directors whose first features are receiving their world premieres in the BIFF line-up.
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FeaturesHow Busan is successfully hosting a physical, socially distanced film festival
A combination of on-site and virtual activities is creating buzz for the festival’s line-up of 192 films.
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Reviews‘Harami’: Busan Review
A young pickpocket develops a conscience after meeting the beautiful daughter of one of his victims
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NewsCJ Entertainment, Library Pictures pact on local-language films
The two companies have entered into a slate co-financing deal for projects in Indonesia, Vietnam and Turkey.
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Reviews‘Yellow Cat’: Busan Review
A ‘Bonnie And Clyde’-style romance between a socially awkward fugitive and the scatty hooker he befriends
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Reviews’Josee, The Tiger And The Fish’: Busan Review (closing film)
A charming, unashamedly melodramatic anime about the bond between a marine biology student and a paraplegic
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Reviews‘Empty Body’: Busan Review
A philosophical sci-fi drama about a grieving mother whose dead son returns in an android body
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NewsNikkatsu seals string of deals on Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s ‘Wife Of A Spy’
Venice best director winner has gone to Portugal (Midas Filmes), Norway (Fidalgo) and Korea (M&M International), among other territories.
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Reviews‘Children Of The Night’: Busan Review
A chilling documentary takes us inside a Turkish refugee camp in which boys are trained to kill
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Reviews‘Summer Blur’: Busan Review
This sensitive, assured debut focuses on the anguished adolescence of a teenager who’s a bystander in her own life
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FeaturesDea Kulumbegashvili on her San Sebastian prize-winning debut ‘Beginning’
The writer/director’s film is Georgia’s submission to the Oscar international feature category.
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Reviews‘Bittersweet’: Busan Review
Ananth Narayan Mahadevan explores the plight of female sugar cane cutters in India
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Reviews‘Beyond You’: Busan Review
A South Korean metaphysical melodrama that defies the laws of time and space
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Reviews‘Red Soil’: Busan Review
This whistleblower drama, co-produced by the Dardenne brothers, is buoyed by strong performances