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21st Busan International Film Festival

The 21st Busan International Film Festival was held from October 6 to October 15, 2016 at the Busan Cinema Center and was hosted by Sul Kyung-gu and Han Hyo-joo. A total of 301 films from 69 countries were screened at the festival, including 96 world premieres and 27 international premieres.

Program
Opening A Quiet Dream - Zhang Lü (Korea) Gala Presentation Bleed for This - Ben Younger (United States) • Daguerrotype - Kiyoshi Kurosawa (France/Belgium/Japan) • Rage - Lee Sang-il (Japan) • Your Name - Makoto Shinkai (Japan) A Window on Asian Cinema #BKKY - Nontawat Numbenchapol (Thailand) • Reward - Kamal Tabrizi (Iran) • The Nights of Zayandeh-rood - Mohsen Makhmalbaf (Iran/United Kingdom) • 4+1 - Farkhat SHARIPOV (Kazakhstan) • 500M800M - YAO Tian (Hong Kong, China) • A Death in the Gunj - Konkona Sen Sharma (India) • A Gas Station - Tanwarin SUKKHAPISIT (Thailand) • A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery - Lav Diaz (Philippines) • A Woman from Java - Garin Nugroho (Indonesia) • A Yellow Bird - K. Rajagopal (Singapore/France) • Apprentice - Boo Junfeng (Singapore/France/Germany/Hong Kong, China/Qatar) • Bangkok Nites - TOMITA Katsuya (Japan/France/Thailand/Laos) • Blessed Benefit - Mahmoud AL MASSAD (Germany/Jordan/Netherlands/Qatar) • By the Time It Gets Dark - Anocha Suwichakornpong (Thailand/Netherlands/France/Qatar) • Chronicles of Hari - Ananya Kasaravalli (India) • Desperate Sunflowers - Hitomi Kuroki (Japan) • Diamond Island - Davy Chou (Cambodia/France/Germany/Thailand/Qatar) • Duck Neck - WEI Shujun (China) • ''Emma' (Mother)'' - Riri Riza (Indonesia) • Expressway - Ato Bautista (Philippines) • Fan - Maneesh Sharma (India/Croatia) • Ghashang & Farang - Vahid MOUSAIAN (Iran) • Happiness - Sabu (Japan/Germany) • Harmonium - FUKADA Koji (Japan/France) • Hema Hema: Sing Me a Song While I Wait - Khyentse Norbu (Bhutan) • Her Love Boils Bathwater - NAKANO Ryota (Japan) • Honeygiver Among the Dogs - Dechen RODER (Bhutan) • Hotel Salvation - Shubhashish BHUTIANI (India) • Lost Daughter - CHEN Yu-Jie (Taiwan) • ''Ma' Rosa'' - Brillante Mendoza (Philippines) • Madaari - Nishikant Kamat (India) • Malaria - Parviz Shahbazi (Iran) • Mi Amor - Suman Ghosh (United States/India) • Mrs K - HO Yuhang (Malaysia/Hong Kong, China) • Muhammad: The Messenger of God - Majid Majidi (Iran) • My Egg Boy - FU Sola Tien-yu (Taiwan) • One Night Only - Matt Wu (China) • Over the Fence - Nobuhiro Yamashita (Japan) • Revelations - Vijay Jayapal (India) • Singing in Graveyards - Bradley LIEW (Malaysia/Philippines) • Solo, Solitude - Yosep Anggi NOEN (Indonesia) • Soul on a String - Zhang Yang (China) • Suffering of Ninko - NIWATSUKINO Norihiro (Japan) • Tam Cam: The Untold Story - Ngô Thanh Vân (Vietnam) • The Bait - Buddhadeb Dasgupta (India) • The City of Mirrors: A Fictional Biography - TRUONG Minh Quy (Vietnam) • The Dream of Water - Farhad MEHRANFAR (Iran) • The Long Excuse - Miwa Nishikawa (Japan) • The Road to Mandalay - Midi Z (Taiwan/France/Germany/Myanmar) • The Salesman - Asghar Farhadi (Iran/France) • Three - Johnnie To (Hong Kong, China/China) • Travelling with the Bomb - Nurlan ABDYKADYROV (Kyrgyzstan) • Violinist - Mohammad Ali TALEBI (Iran) • Wandering - Boonsong NAKPHOO (Thailand) • White Sun - Deepak RAUNIYAR (Nepal) • Woven Wings of Our Children - Anton JUAN (Philippines) New Currents A Billion Colour Story - Padmakumar NARASIMHAMURTHY (India) • Burning Birds - Sanjeewa Pushpakumara (France/Sri Lanka/Qatar/ The Netherlands) • Her Mother - SATO Yoshinori (Japan) • In Between Seasons - Lee Dong-eun (Korea) • Knife in the Clear Water - WANG Xuebo (China) • Lady of the Lake - Haobam PABAN KUMAR (India) • Merry Christmas Mr. Mo - Lim Dae-hyung (Korea) • Parting - Navid MAHMOUDI (Iran/Afghanistan) • Someone to Talk To - Liu Yulin (China/Hong Kong, China) • The Donor - ZANG Qiwu (China) • White Ant - CHU Hsien-Che (Taiwan) Korean Cinema Today - Panorama Coffee Mate - YI Hyun-ha (Korea) • Derailed (a.k.a. No Way To Go) - LEE Seong-tae (Korea) • Fatal Intuition - YUN Jun-hyeong (Korea) • Inside Men - Woo Min-ho (Korea) • Road to Utah - KIM Jeong-jung (Korea/United States) • SORI: Voice from the Heart - Lee Ho-jae (Korea) • The Age of Shadows - Kim Jee-woon (Korea) • The Bacchus Lady - E J-yong (Korea) • The Handmaiden - Park Chan-wook (Korea) • The Last Princess - Hur Jin-ho (Korea) • The Map Against the World - Kang Woo-suk (Korea) • The Net - Kim Ki-duk (Korea) • The Priests - Jang Jae-hyun (Korea) • The Table - Kim Jong-kwan (Korea) • The Truth Beneath - Lee Kyoung-mi (Korea) • The Wailing - Na Hong-jin (Korea/United States) • The World of Us - YOON Ga-eun (Korea) Korean Cinema Today - Vision Autumn, Autumn - JANG Woo-jin (Korea) • Baby Beside Me - SON Tae-gyum (Korea) • Come, Together - Shin Dong-il (Korea) • ''Hyeon's Quartet'' - AHN Seon-kyoung (Korea) • Jamsil - LEE Wanmin (Korea) • Jane - CHO Hyunhoon (Korea) • Lost to Shame - Nam Yeon-woo (Korea) • Picture of Hell - PARK Ki-yong (Korea/Japan) • Second Winter - KIM Euigon (Korea) • The Noises - MIN Je-hong (Korea) • Yongsoon - SHIN Joon - (Korea) Korean Cinema Retrospective Lee Doo-yong: The Pathfinder of Korean Genre Films Eunuch - Lee Doo-yong (Korea) • Manchurian Tiger - Lee Doo-yong (Korea) • Police Story - Lee Doo-yong (Korea) • Spinning the Tales of Cruelty Towards Women - Lee Doo-yong (Korea) • The Early Years - Lee Doo-yong (Korea) • The Hut - Lee Doo-yong (Korea) • The Last Witness - Lee Doo-yong (Korea) • The Oldest Son - Lee Doo-yong (Korea) World Cinema A Possible Life - Ivano De Matteo (Italy/France) • ''A Woman's Life'' - Stéphane Brizé (France) • Afterimage - Andrzej Wajda (Poland) • Aquarius - Kleber Mendonça Filho (Brazil) • Arrival - Denis Villeneuve (United States) • Boys in the Trees - Nicholas VERSO (Australia) • Brightness - Souleymane Cissé (Mali) • Brooks, Meadows and Lovely Faces - Yousry Nasrallah (Egypt) • Clair Obscur - Yeşim Ustaoğlu (Turkey/Germany/Poland/France) • Death in Sarajevo - Danis Tanović (Bosnia and Herzegovina/France) • Egon Schiele: Death and the Maiden - Dieter BERNER (Austria/Luxembourg) • Endless Poetry - Alejandro Jodorowsky (Chile/France) • Epifanía - Oscar RUIZ NAVIA, Anna EBORN (Colombia/Sweden/Denmark) • Foreign Body - Raja Amari (France/Tunisia) • Frantz - François Ozon (France/Germany) • From the Land of the Moon - Nicole Garcia (France) • Heaven Will Wait - Marie-Castille MENTION-SCHAAR (France) • I, Daniel Blake - Ken Loach (United Kingdom) • ''It's Not the Time of My Life'' - Szabolcs HAJDU (Hungary) • ''It's Only the End of the World'' - Xavier Dolan (Canada/France) • Julieta - Pedro Almodóvar (Spain/United States) • King of the Belgians - Peter BROSENS, Jessica WOODWORTH (Belgium/Netherlands/Bulgaria) • Koblic - Sebastián Borensztein (Spain/Argentina) • La La Land - Damien Chazelle (United States) • May God Save Us - Rodrigo SOROGOYEN (Spain) • Monte - Amir Naderi (Italy/United States/France) • '''' - Sven TADDICKEN (Germany) • Other People - Chris Kelly (United States) • Paterson - Jim Jarmusch (United States) • Personal Shopper - Olivier Assayas (France) • Scarred Hearts - Radu Jude (Romania/Germany) • Sieranevada - Cristi Puiu (Romania) • Sweet Dreams - Marco Bellocchio (Italy/France) • The Death of Louis XIV - Albert Serra (France/Portugal/Spain) • The Distinguished Citizen - Gastón Duprat & Mariano Cohn (Argentina/Spain) • The Oath - Baltasar Kormákur (Iceland) • The Ornithologist - João Pedro Rodrigues (France/Portugal/Brazil) • The Reconquest - Jonás TRUEBA (Spain) • The Teacher - Jan Hřebejk (Slovak Republic/Czech Republic) • The Together Project - Sólveig Anspach (France/Iceland) • Toni Erdmann - Maren Ade (Germany) • United States of Love - Tomasz Wasilewski (Poland/Sweden) Flash Forward 1:54 - Yan England (Canada) • A Pact Among Angels - Richard ANGERS (Canada) • Aloys - Tobias NÖLLE (Switzerland/France) • Amerika Square - Yannis SAKARIDIS (Greece/United Kingdom/Germany) • As You Are - Miles JORIS-PEYRAFITTE (United States) • Bad Girl - Fin EDQUIST (Australia) • Between Worlds - Miya HATAV (Israel) • Bonfire - Dmitry Davydov (Russia) • Fräulein - A winter’s tale - Caterina CARONE (Italy) • Glory - Kristina GROZEVA, Petar VALCHANOV (Bulgaria/Greece) • Godless - Ralitza PETROVA (Bulgaria/Denmark/France) • Heartstone - Guðmundur ARNAR GUðMUNDSSON (Iceland/Denmark) • Hounds of Love - Ben YOUNG (Australia) • Maria and Everybody Else - Nely REGUERA (Spain) • Marija - Michael Koch (Germany/Switzerland) • Mimosas - Oliver Laxe (Spain/France/Morocco/Qatar) • Night of a 1000 Hours - Virgil Widrich (Luxembourg/Austria/Netherlands) • One Week and a Day - Asaph POLONSKY (Israel) • Starfish - Bill CLARK (United Kingdom) • The Bear Skin - Marco SEGATO (Italy) • The Dancer - Stéphanie Di Giusto (France) • The Empty Box - Claudia SAINTE-LUCE (Mexico/France) • The Giant - Johannes NYHOLM (Sweden/Denmark) • The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki - Juho Kuosmanen (Finland/Germany/Sweden) • The Idea of a Lake - Milagros MUMENTHALER (Argentina/Switzerland/Qatar) • The Long Night of Francisco Sanctis - Francisco MARQUEZ, Andrea TESTA (Argentina) • The Poisoning Angel - Stephanie PILLONCA (France/Belgium) • The Saint - Andrius BLAZEVICIUS (Lithuania/Poland) • The Unseen - Perivi KATJAVIVI (Namibia) • Una - Benedict Andrews (United Kingdom) • We are the Tide - Sebastian HILGER (Germany) • Wolf and Sheep - Shahrbanoo SADAT (Denmark/France/Sweden/Afghanistan) • Worldly Girl - Marco DANIELI (Italy/France) • Worlds Apart - Christopher Papakaliatis (Greece) • Zoology - Ivan I. TVERDOVSKY (Russia/France/Germany) Wide Angle Korean Short Film Competition Confessions - KIM Woo-hyun (Korea) • Family Plan - CHUNG Jiyun (Korea) • Heart On Fire - SUN Jonghoon (Korea) • Her Secret Day - JUNG Inbong (Korea) • Here with Me - Antoine AHN (Korea) • Missing - YOO Dong-gyu (Korea) • ''Mom's Rice Ball'' - YOO Yong-ji (Korea) • Parade - NA Jihyun (Korea) • Sleepless Night - HUR Jung-jae (Korea) • The Bird Fights Its Way Out of The Egg - CHO Changgeun (Korea) • The Boy is with Us - YOON Heewon (Korea) • The Distance between Us - LEE Jung-gon (Korea) • The Girl Burying Bodies - CHUN Juyoung (Korea) • The Master : An Ordinary Man - YUN Puhui (Korea) • The Noodle - KIM Sujin (Korea) • Viewer - KIM Soyoun (Korea) Asian Short Film Competition A Little Tiger - Nutthapon RAKKHATHAM (Thailand) • Memoria - Kamila Andini (Indonesia/East Timor) • Night-Fly - Aziz ZHAMBAKIYEV (Kazakhstan) • Off-season - Yelzat ESKENDIR (Kazakhstan) • Pain in Silence - LI Yujian (China) • Supot - Phil GIORDANO (Philippines/United States) • The Doomed Way - GUO Sanpi (China) • The Limit - Sonia SAHARAN (India) • The Robe - Wera AUNG (Myanmar) • Year of the Bird - Shenang Gyamjo TAMANG (Nepal) Short Film Showcase Art Through Our Eyes - Eric Khoo, HO Yuhang, Joko Anwar, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Brillante Mendoza (Singapore/Indonesia/Malaysia/Philippines/Thailand) • Autumn Days - Tsai Ming-liang (Taiwan) • Dadyaa - Bibhusan BASNET, Pooja GURUNG (Nepal/France) • Following - Leesong Hee-il (Korea) • Gerontophobia - Boris SVERLOW (Belgium/Netherlands) • Imago - Raymund GUTIERREZ (Philippines) • Madly - Sion Sono, Gael García Bernal, Anurag Kashyap, Natasha Khan, Sebastián Silva, Mia Wasikowska (United States/Argentina/Australia/India/Japan/United Kingdom) • On the Origin of Fear - Bayu Prihantoro FILEMON (Indonesia) • Single Belief - Lee Kang-sheng (Taiwan) • Special Screening of Pixar Short Animations - Alvy Ray Smith and 14 others (United States) • The Cameraman - Connor Gaston (Canada) • Wind - SAW Tiong Guan (Malaysia) Documentary Competition A Whale of a Tale - SASAKI Megumi (Japan/United States) • Absent Without Leave - LAU Kek-Huat, CHEN Jing-Lian (Taiwan/Malaysia) • Burmese on the Roof - OH Hyunjin, KO Duhyun (Korea) • Farming Boys - BYUN Siyeon, JANG Sejung, KANG Hojun (Korea) • Neighborhood - SUNG Seungtaek (Korea) • Railways Sleepers - Sompot CHIDGASORNPONGSE (Thailand) • SUN - WON Hoyeon (Korea) • Sunday Beauty Queen - Baby Ruth VILLARAMA (Philippines/Hong Kong, China/Japan/United Kingdom) • The Crescent Rising - Sheron DAYOC (Philippines) • Those from the Shore - Tamara Stepanyan (Lebanon/Qatar/Armenia/France) • Time to Read Poems - LEE Soojung (Korea) Documentary Showcase A Journey Through French Cinema - Bertrand Tavernier (France) • An Insignificant Man - Khushboo RANKA, Vinay Shukla (India) • Becoming Who I Was - MOON Changyong, JEON Jin (Korea) • Doomed Beauty - Helena Třeštíková, Jakub HEJNA (Czech Republic) • Fake - Tatsuya Mori (Japan) • Gentleman Rissient - Benoît Jacquot, Pascal Mérigeau, Guy Seligman (France) • In Exile - Tin Win NAING (Germany/Myanmar) • J: Beyond Flamenco - Carlos Saura (Spain) • Safari - Ulrich Seidl (Austria/Denmark) • ''Ta'ang'' - Wang Bing (Hong Kong, China/France) • Tempestad - Tatiana HUEZO (Mexico) • The Apology - Tiffany Hsiung (Canada) • The Cinema Travellers - Shirley ABRAHAM, Amit Madheshiya (India) • The Marvelous Spiral - Massimo D’ANOLFI, Martina PARENTI (Italy/Switzerland) • The Remnants - LEE Hyuk-sang, KIM Il-rhan (Korea) • ''The Revolution Won't Be Televised'' - Rama Thiaw (Senegal/France) • Weekends - LEE Dongha (Korea) Cinekids • ''Friends Forever - A Pig's Tale'' - Theresa STROZYK, Tony LOESER (Germany) • Get Santa - Jacob LEY (Denmark) • McDull: Rise of the Rice Cooker - Brian Tse (Hong Kong, China) • Mercy Street - Stefan BUZEA (Romania) • The Mobarak - Mohammad Reza EMAMI (Iran) Animation Showcase Iqbal: the Tale of a Fearless Child - Michel FUZELLIER, Babak Payami (Italy/France) • Louise by the Shore - Jean-François Laguionie (France/Canada) • Window Horses - Ann Marie Fleming (Canada) Open Cinema At Cafe 6 - Neal WU (Taiwan/China) • At War with Love - Pierfrancesco Diliberto (Italy) • Between Sea and Land - Manolo CRUZ, Carlos DEL CASTILLO (Colombia) • Shin Godzilla - Shinji Higuchi, Hideaki Anno (Japan) • Heart of Stone - Johannes NABER (Germany) • Mirzya - Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra (India) • Sultan - Ali Abbas Zafar (India/Hungary) • The Birth of a Nation - Nate Parker (United States) Special Programs in Focus And Film Goes On: Abbas Kiarostami Retrospective 24 Frames - Abbas Kiarostami (Iran) • 76 Minutes and 15 Seconds with Abbas Kiarostami - Seifollah SAMADIAN (Iran) • And Life Goes on - Abbas Kiarostami (Iran) • Certified Copy - Abbas Kiarostami (France/Iran/Italy/Belgium) • Close-Up - Abbas Kiarostami (Iran) • Roads of Kiarostami - Abbas Kiarostami (Iran) • Taste of Cherry - Abbas Kiarostami (Iran/France) • The Wind Will Carry Us - Abbas Kiarostami (Iran/France) • Through the Olive Trees - Abbas Kiarostami (Iran/France) • ''Where Is the Friend's Home?'' - Abbas Kiarostami (Iran) Cali Group: Root of Colombian Cinema Araucaima Mansion - Carlos MAYOLO (Colombia) • Asuncion - Carlos MAYOLO, Luis OSPINA (Colombia) • Blood and Rain - Jorge NAVAS (Colombia/Argentina) • Crab Trap - Oscar RUIZ NAVIA (Colombia/France) • Flesh of Your Flesh - Carlos MAYOLO (Colombia) • Hammock - Carlos MAYOLO (Colombia) • It All Started at the End - Luis OSPINA (Colombia) • Listen Look - Luis OSPINA, Carlos MAYOLO (Colombia) • Liveforever - Carlos MORENO (Colombia/Mexico) • Pollution is... - Carlos MAYOLO (Colombia) • Pure Blood - Luis OSPINA (Colombia) • That 19th - Carlos MAYOLO (Colombia) • The Towrope - William VEGA (Colombia/France/Mexico) • The Vampires of Poverty - Luis OSPINA, Carlos MAYOLO (Colombia) Midnight Passion Aroused by Gymnopedies - Isao Yukisada (Japan) • Blair Witch - Adam Wingard (United States) • Headshot - Timo TJAHJANTO, Kimo STAMBOEL (Indonesia) • Museum - OTOMO Keishi (Japan) • The Girl with All the Gifts - Colm McCarthy (United Kingdom) • The Wailing - Na Hong-jin (Korea/United States) • Transpecos - Greg KWEDAR (United States) • Wet Woman in the Wind - Akihiko Shiota (Japan) • White Lily - Hideo Nakata (Japan) Closing Reseba: The Dark Wind - Hussein Hassan (Iraq/Germany/Qatar) == Awards==
Awards
New Currents AwardThe Donor - ZANG Qiwu (China) • Knife in the Clear Water - WANG Xuebo (China) • BIFF Mecenat AwardNeighborhood - SUNG Seungtaek (Korea) • The Crescent Rising - Sheron DAYOC (Philippines) • Sonje AwardViewer - KIM Soyoun (Korea) • Off-season - Yelzat ESKENDIR (Kazakhstan) • Actor & Actress of the Year AwardKoo Kyo-hwan - Jane (Korea) • Lee Min-ji - Jane (Korea) • FIPRESCI AwardWhite Ant - CHU Hsien-Che (Taiwan) • NETPAC AwardMerry Christmas Mr. Mo - Lim Dae-hyung (Korea) • Daemyung Culture Wave AwardYongsoon - SHIN Joon - (Korea) • KNN AwardIn Between Seasons - Lee Dong-eun (Korea) • Busan Bank AwardNight of a 1000 Hours - Virgil Widrich (Luxembourg/Austria/Netherlands) • '''Citizen Critics' Award''' • Jamsil - LEE Wanmin (Korea) • Busan Cinephile AwardThe Apology - Tiffany HSIUNG (Canada) • CGV Arthouse AwardJane - CHO Hyunhoon (Korea) • '''Vision-Director's Award''' • JANG Woo-jin - Autumn, Autumn (Korea) • AHN Seon-kyoung - ''Hyeon's Quartet'' (Korea) • The Asian Filmmaker of the YearAbbas Kiarostami (Iran) • Korean Cinema Award • Laurence Herszberg (France) ==References==
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