The 23rd Busan International Film Festival was held from 3 October to 13 October 2018 at the Busan Cinema Center. 324 films from 79 countries were screened at the festival, including 115 world premieres and 25 international premieres.[1][2]
The DGK Award was also reinstated after it was boycotted by the Director's Guild of Korea in 2016 and 2017.
Program
Opening
Gala Presentation
A Window on Asian Cinema
- 27 Steps of May - Ravi BHARWANI (Indonesia)
- 3 Faces - Jafar Panahi (Iran)
- A Family Tour - Ying Liang (Taiwan/Hong Kong, China/Singapore/Malaysia)
- Alpha, The Right to Kill - Brillante Mendoza (Philippines)
- Asako I & II - Ryūsuke Hamaguchi (Japan)
- Asandhimitta - Asoka Handagama (Sri Lanka)
- Ash Is Purest White - Jia Zhangke (China/France)
- Bhonsle - Devashish Makhija (India)
- Bulbul Can Sing - Rima Das (India)
- Capernaum - Nadine Labaki (Lebanon/United States)
- The Chrysanthemum and the Guillotine - Takahisa Zeze (Japan)
- Cities of Last Things - Wi Ding HO (Taiwan/China/United States/France)
- Citizen Jake - Mike De Leon (Philippines)
- Come On Irene - Keisuke Yoshida (Japan)
- Complicity - CHIKAURA Kei (Japan/China)
- Dare to Stop Us - SHIRAISHI Kazuya (Japan)
- The Day I Lost My Shadow - Soudade KAADAN (Syria/Lebanon)
- Dear Ex - Mag HSU, HSU Chih Yen (Taiwan)
- Demons - Daniel HUI (Singapore)
- The Enigma of Arrival - SONG Wen (China)
- The Eternity Between Seconds - Alec FIGURACION (Philippines/Korea)
- Every Day a Good Day - Tatsushi Ōmori (Japan)
- Fly By Night - Zahir OMAR (Malaysia)
- Fortitude - Rashid MALIKOV (Uzbekistan)
- The Gentle Indifference of the World - Adilkhan YERZHANOV (Kazakhstan/France)
- The Island - Huang Bo (China)
- Jinpa - Pema Tseden (China)
- Lakbayan (Journey) - Brillante Mendoza, Lav Diaz, Kidlat Tahimik (Philippines)
- Magic Lantern - Amir Naderi (United States)
- The Man From the Sea - Kōji Fukada (Japan/Indonesia/France)
- Manta Ray - Phuttiphong AROONPHENG (Thailand/France/China)
- Manto - Nandita Das (India)
- Memories of My Body - Garin Nugroho (Indonesia)
- My Dear Friend - YANG Pingdao (China)
- Nakorn-Sawan - Puangsoi AKSORNSAWANG (Thailand/Germany)
- Namdev Bhau: In Search of Silence - Dar Gai (India/Ukraine)
- No Matter How Much My Mom Hates Me - MINORIKAWA Osamu (Japan)
- Our Departures - YOSHIDA Yasuhiro (Japan)
- The Rib - ZHANG Wei (China)
- Rona, Azim's Mother - Jamshid MAHMOUDI (Afghanistan/Iran)
- Round Figure - Hardik Mehta (India)
- Sanju - Rajkumar Hirani (India)
- The Scoundrels - Tzu-Hsuan HUNG (Taiwan)
- The Secret of a Leader - Farkhat SHARIPOV (Kazakhstan)
- Shadow - Zhang Yimou (China)
- Signal Rock - Chito S. Roño (Philippines)
- Sincerely Yours, Dhaka - Nuhash HUMAYUN, Syed Ahmed SHAWKI and 9 others (Bangladesh)
- Sly - Kamal Tabrizi (Iran)
- The Song of the Tree - Aibek DAIYRBEKOV (Kyrgyzstan/Russia)
- Ten Years Japan - HAYAKAWA Chie, KINOSHITA Yusuke, TSUNO Megumi, FUJIMURA Akiyo, ISHIKAWA Kei (Japan/Hong Kong, China)
- Ten Years Taiwan - Lekal Sumi Cilangasan, Rina B. TSOU, Po-Shun LU, Pei-Ju HSIEH, Kek Huat LAU (Taiwan/Hong Kong, China)
- Ten Years Thailand - Aditya Assarat, Wisit Sasanatieng, Chulayarnon Siriphol and Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Thailand/Hong Kong, China)
- They Sing up on the Hill - Bat-Amgalan LKHAGVAJAV, Ian ALLARDYCE (Mongolia/United Kingdom)
- The Third Wife - Ash Mayfair (Vietnam)
- Tumbbad - Rahi Anil BRAVE, Adesh PRASAD (India/Sweden)
- Vision - Naomi Kawase (Japan/France)
- Widow of Silence - Praveen Morchhale (India)
- With All My Hypothalamus - Dwein BALTAZAR (Philippines)
- Your Face - Tsai Ming-liang (Taiwan)
- Yours Truly - Sanjoy Nag (India)
New Currents
- Aurora - Bekzat PIRMATOV (Kyrgyzstan)
- Clean up - KWON Man-ki (Korea)
- Gold Carrier - Touraj ASLANI (Iran)
- His Lost Name - HIROSE Nanako (Japan)
- House of Hummingbird - KIM Bora (Korea)
- House of My Fathers - Suba SIVAKUMARAN (Sri Lanka)
- SAVAGE - CUI Si Wei (China)
- Second Life - PARK Young-ju (Korea)
- The Red Phallus - Tashi GYELTSHEN (Bhutan/Germany/Nepal)
- Vanishing Days - ZHU Xin (China)
Korean Cinema Today - Panorama
Korean Cinema Today - Vision
- A Boy and Sungreen - Ahn Ju-young (Korea)
- A Duck's Grin - Kim Young-nam (Korea/France)
- Between the Seasons - Kim Jun-sik (Korea)
- Bori - Kim Jin-yu (Korea)
- Don't Go Too Far - Park Hyun-yong (Korea)
- Maggie - Yi Ok-seop (Korea)
- Night Light - Kim Moo-young(Korea)
- Our Body - Han Ka-ram (Korea)
- Sub-zero Wind - Kim Yuri (Korea)
- Youngju - Cha Sung-duk (Korea)
Korean Cinema Retrospective
The Pioneer of 1980's Realism: Lee Jang-ho
World Cinema
Flash Forward
Wide Angle
Korean Short Film Competition
- Beyond the Sea - KIM Si-jin (Korea)
- Cat Day Afternoon - KWON Sungmo (Korea)
- Chicken Fighters - GO Hyeonji (Korea)
- Do Cabbages Grow in Africa? - LEE Na-yeon (Korea)
- Down - LEE Woosoo (Korea)
- Habitat - HONG Eui-jeong (Korea)
- My Little Brother, Seung-hyuk - KIM Deokgeun (Korea)
- The Narrow Gate - KIM Younmi (Korea)
- Only All of Us - HAN Yuwon (Korea)
- Road to Her - CHO Jeehoon (Korea)
- Spring Equinox - SUK Jinhyuk (Korea)
- Stranger - KIM Youjune (Korea)
- Tears - OH Seoung-ho (Korea)
- Water Spray - OH Eunyoung (Korea)
Asian Short Film Competition
- A Dance for Ren Hang - Yuan Bin Lei (Singapore/Macau China)
- A Million Years - SAN Danech (Cambodia)
- Air - Aizhana Kassymbek (Kazakhstan)
- Chasing Paper - Shoki Lin (Singapore)
- GOLD - Yong Chao LEE (Taiwan/Myanmar)
- In the Middle of Blue - QI Ji (China)
- The Moon Is Bright Tonight - Abinash Bikram Shah (Nepal/Myanmar)
- MOTHER, DAUGHTER, DREAMS - Linh Duong (Vietnam)
- NOOREH - Ashish Pandey (India)
- Similitude - Hariyali DESAI (India)
- The Stain - Nuntanat Duangtisarn (Thailand)
- Tokyo 21st October - OKUYAMA Hiroshi (Japan)
- Void - XU Jianshang (China)
- Waves Interrupted - Dimon John (Sri Lanka)
Short Film Showcase
- A Cold Summer Night - Yash SAWANT (India)
- A Gift - Aditya Ahmad (Indonesia)
- All These Creatures - Charles WILLIAMS (Australia)
- BELIEVE IT OR NOT - PARK Chan-kyong (Korea)
- The Crying of Tanbur - Anisa Sabiri (Tajikistan)
- Down There - YANG Zhengfan (China/France)
- The Fight - Marco Bellocchio (Italy)
- Heart of Snow: afterlife - Soyoung Kim (Korea)
- Last Order - Joji Villanueva Alonso (Philippines/Singapore)
- Manila is Full of Men Named Boy - Andrew Stephen LEE (Philippines/United States)
- ON THE BORDER - WEI Shujun (China)
- The Open Door - Jamyang Jamtsho Wangchuk (Bhutan/United Kingdom)
- Over There - JANG Minseung (Korea)
- Permanent Resident - Nicole Midori WOODFORD (Singapore)
- Sex, Fear, and Hamburgers - Eldar SHIBANOV (Kazakhstan)
- Supermonk - Shenang Gyamjo TAMANG (Taiwan/Nepal)
- Till Next Time - Paulie HUANG Chih Chia (Taiwan)
Documentary Competition
- A War of Memories - Bora LEE-KIL (Korea)
- ARMY - Kelvin Kyungkun PARK (Korea)
- KIM-GUN - KANG Sang-woo (Korea)
- Opening Closing Forgetting - James T. Hong (Taiwan)
- Our Happy Birth Day - Angel SU, Mimi CHEN (Taiwan)
- Re-sound - JEONG Ilgeon (Korea)
- Shusenjo: The Main Battleground of Comfort Women Issue - Miki Dezaki (United States/Japan)
- The Song of Grassroots - Yuda Kurniawan (Indonesia)
- The Strangers - MYOUNG So-hee (Korea)
- Swimming Through The Darkness - Supriyo SEN (India)
- Unknown Knowns - HAN Hyesung (Korea)
Documentary Showcase
- Absence - Ekta MITTAL (India)
- BNK48: Girls Don′t Cry - Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit (Thailand)
- Boy Soldiers: The Secret War in Okinawa - MIKAMI Chie, OYA Hanayo (Japan)
- Bruce Lee and the Outlaw - Joost Vandebrug (United Kingdom/Netherlands/Czech Republic)
- Chi-Town - Nick BUDABIN (United States)
- The Children Gone to Poland - CHOO Sangmee (Korea)
- Chinese Portrait - Wang Xiaoshuai (China/Hong Kong, China)
- Cloud, Encore - Jung Sung-il (Korea)
- Crossing Beyond - Yi Seung-jun (Korea)
- Dead Souls - Wang Bing (France/Switzerland)
- Dear My Genius - KOO Yunjoo (Korea)
- Fahrenheit 11/9 - Michael Moore (United States)
- Gravity of the Tea - Jung Sung-il (Korea)
- Land from God - Kevin Piamonte (Philippines)
- Last Scene - PARK Baeil (Korea)
- Light A Candle, Write A History - Candlelight Revolution - Nungcool (Korea)
- Littleboy 12725 - KIM Jigon (Korea)
- Minding the Gap - LIU Bing (United States)
- Out - Denis PARROT (France)
- The State Against Mandela And The Others - Nicolas CHAMPEAUX, Gilles PORTE (France/South Africa)
- Tranny Fag - Kiko GOIFMAN, Claudia PRISCILLA (Brazil)
- The Trial - Sergei Loznitsa (Netherlands)
- Turning 18 - HO Chao-ti (Taiwan)
- What You Gonna Do When the World's on Fire? - Roberto MINERVINI (Italy/United States/France)
Cinekids
- Circleen, Coco and the Wild Rhinoceros - Jannik Hastrup (Denmark)
- Gordon & Paddy - Linda HAMBÄCK (Sweden)
- Little Miss Dolittle - Joachim Masannek (Germany)
- Once in a Child′s Life - Sara Momtazian, Jesahel Newton, Mafer Agahi (South Africa/Ecuador/Colombia)
- The Witch Hunters - Rasko Miljkovic (Serbia/Macedonia)
Animation Showcase
- Funan - Denis Do (France/Belgium/Luxembourg)
- Ireesha, The Daughter of Elf-king - CHANG Hyung-yun (Korea)
- Mirai - Mamoru Hosoda (Japan)
- Monkey Magic - MA Xihai (China)
- The Shaman Sorceress - AHN Jaehuun (Korea)
- The Tower - Mats GRORUD (Norway/France/Sweden)
Open Cinema
Special Programs in Focus
Philippines Special Program
Midnight Passion
Busan Classic
Closing
Awards
- New Currents Award
- Clean up - KWON Man-ki (Korea)[3][4][5]
- SAVAGE - CUI Si Wei (China)
- BIFF Mecenat Award
- ARMY - Kelvin Kyungkun PARK (Korea)
- Opening Closing Forgetting - James T. Hong (Taiwan)
- Special Mention : A War of Memories - Bora LEE-KIL (Korea)
- Sonje Award
- Cat Day Afternoon - KWON Sungmo (Korea)
- NOOREH - Ashish Pandey (India)
- Actor & Actress of the Year Award
- FIPRESCI Award
- NETPAC Award
- Kim Jiseok Award
- Citizen Critics' Award
- Maggie - Yi Ok-seop (Korea)
- Busan Cinephile Award
- Bruce Lee and the Outlaw - Joost Vandebrug (United Kingdom/Netherlands/Czech Republic)
- DGK Award
- Bori - Kim Jin-yu (Korea)
- Sub-zero Wind - Kim Yuri (Korea)
- CGV Arthouse Award
- Maggie - Yi Ok-seop (Korea)
- KBS Independent Film Award
- Maggie - Yi Ok-seop (Korea)
- KTH Award
- The Asian Filmmaker of the Year
- Korean Cinema Award
- Martine Thérouanne (France)
- Jean-Marc Thérouanne (France)
References
- ^ Lee, Hyo-won (3 September 2018). "Busan: North Korean Defector Drama Beautiful Days to Open Festival". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 15 September 2018.
- ^ "23rd Busan International Film Festival Vision's Night Award Announcement". BIFF. 12 September 2018. Archived from the original on 17 October 2018. Retrieved 17 October 2018.
- ^ Park, Bo-ram (13 October 2018). "23rd Busan film festival closes with new task of staying relevant". Yonhap. Retrieved 15 October 2018.
- ^ Lee, Hyo-won (13 October 2018). "Busan: 'Clean Up,' 'Savage' Share New Currents Prizes". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 15 October 2018.
- ^ "23rd Busan International Film Festival Vision's Night Award Announcement". BIFF. 13 October 2018. Retrieved 16 October 2018.
- ^ Lee, Hyo-won (22 August 2018). "Busan: Ryuichi Sakamoto Named Asian Filmmaker of the Year". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 15 September 2018.
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