Latest Busan news – Page 2
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Veteran producer Patrick Mao Huang launches China-based firm Eyes Wide Open (exclusive)
Its debut feature is Busan New Currents competitor ’As The River Goes By’.
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Netflix unveils 2025 Korea film slate including first Korean-language animated feature
Directors of seven upcoming titles spoke at an event during Busan International Film Festival.
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‘Grandma’ producers GDH 559 to remake Taiwan hit ‘Marry My Dead Body’ with Billkin and PP (exclusive)
‘The Red Envelope’ will be a Thai adaptation of the blockbuster feature from Taiwan.
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Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s ‘Cloud’ headed to UK-Ire, Germany, Asia (exclusive)
The director picked up an honorary award in Busan and the film is Japan’s selection for the Oscars.
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‘For Rana’ Iranian director Iman Yazdi absent from Busan film festival amid escalating conflict (exclusive)
The filmmaker has seen his travel plans disrupted due to heightened tensions in the Middle East.
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CJ ENM commits to support Korean film industry “despite growing uncertainty”
Korea’s largest media and entertainment outfit will retain annual content investment of $750m (KRW1tn).
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Mohammad Rasoulof expresses “gratitude” over German Oscar entry for ‘The Seed Of The Sacred Fig’
The dissident Iranian filmmaker is in South Korea presiding over the main competition at Busan International Film Festival.
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Busan film festival opens with Kiyoshi Kurosawa honour, Lee Sun-kyun tribute
Martin Scorsese and Bong Joon Ho among those to honour the Japanese filmmaker.
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Busan film festival to open with Park Chan-wook produced Netflix drama ‘Uprising’ amid ongoing challenges
The festival in South Korea will honour Japanese auteur Kiyoshi Kurosawa with the Asian Filmmaker of the Year award.
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Golden Scene boards Busan competitor ‘Montages Of A Modern Motherhood’ (exclusive)
Marks the second feature of ‘Still Human’ director Oliver Chan.
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Busan film festival unveils New Currents, Jiseok 2024 competition titles
Line-ups include upcoming features by Brillante Mendoza, Rima Das and Tom Lin.
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Busan film festival to honour late ‘Parasite’ actor Lee Sun-kyun
The festival will screen six films starring the actor and bestow a posthumous Korean Cinema Award.
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Exiled Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof to head Busan film festival jury
The dissident auteur will preside over the jury for the festival’s New Currents competition.
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Busan’s Asian Project Market 2024 selects new films from Kirsten Tan, Woo Ming Jin, Daishi Matsunaga
A total of 30 projects have been selected for Asia’s biggest investment and co-production market.
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Busan postpones festival director appointment, names Pak Dosin deputy director
The 29th edition of the festival to be held under the leadership of recently appointed chairperson Park Kwang-su.
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Ellen Y. D. Kim named director of Busan’s Asian Contents & Film Market
It marks the latest senior appointment following a string of high-level departures in 2023.
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Busan film festival confirms Park Kwang-su as chairperson
The festival will next look to recruit a festival director and director of the Asian Contents & Film Market (ACFM).
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Busan film festival nominates Park Kwang-su as chairman
Appointment of a new festival director and ACFM director is ongoing.
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Busan film festival takes action following sexual harassment investigation
The move follows a string of top-level resignations in 2023.
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‘The Wrestler’, ‘September 1923’ win top awards at Busan
‘Paradise’ and ‘Bridge Kidnapping’ also take major prizes.