The 27th Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) has announced the line-up for its two Asian competition juries with Unifrance president Serge Toubiana set to preside over the New Currents jury.
New Currents is BIFF’s main competition section, which introduces first or second feature films of emerging directors that the festival sees as potential future leaders in Asian cinema.
Toubiana will be joined on the jury the French director Alain Guiraudie, whose Stranger By The Lake won the Queer Palm and directing prize when it played in Un Certain Regard at Cannes in 2013; Indonesian filmmaker Kamila Andini, who won Toronto’s Platform prize with Yuni in 2021 and played in Competition at this year’s Berlinale with Before, Now And Then; Japanese actor Ryo Kase, whose credits include Clint Eastwood’s Letters From Iwo Jima and Martin Scorsese’s Silence; and Lee Eugene, Korean producer of Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Broker. They will select two films, each to be awarded a prize of $30,000.
In addition, film critic Jean-Michel Frodon, formerly of Le Monde and Cahiers du Cinema, will head the Kim Jiseok Award jury.
Established in 2017 to commemorate the late BIFF founding programmer Kim Ji-seok, who dedicated his life to the growth of Asian cinema, the Kim Jiseok Award goes to two new films from Asian directors, each to be awarded a prize of $10,000. Frodon will be joined on the jury by directors Ogigami Naoko (Close-Knit) and Kim Hee-Jung (Where Would You Like to Go?).
BIFF is set to run from October 5-14, with the 17th Asian Contents & Film Market (ACFM) running October 8-11.
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