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23rd Busan International Film Festival

The 23rd Busan International Film Festival was held from 4 October to 13 October 2018 at the Busan Cinema Center. A total of 324 films from 79 countries were screened during the festival, including 115 world premieres and 25 international premieres.

Program
Opening Beautiful Days - Jéro YUN (Korea/France) Gala Presentation First Night Nerves - Stanley Kwan (Hong Kong, China/China) • Killing - Shinya Tsukamoto (Japan) • Ode to the Goose - Zhang Lu (Korea) 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 Along with the Gods: The Last 49 Days - Kim Yong-hwa (Korea) • Believer - Lee Hae-young (Korea) • Burning - Lee Chang-dong (Korea) • The Fortress - Hwang Dong-hyuk (Korea) • Grass - Hong Sang-soo (Korea) • Herstory - Min Kyu-dong (Korea) • Illang: The Wolf Brigade - Kim Jee-woon (Korea) • Kokdu: A Story of Guardian Angels - Kim Tae-yong (Korea) • Memories of a Dead End - CHOI Hyunyoung (Korea/Japan) • Nailed - HA Yoon-jae (Korea) • Passing Summer - Cho Sung-kyu (Korea) • Pray - Kang Dong-hun (Korea) • The Snob - Shin Aga, Lee Sang-cheol (Korea) • The Spy Gone North - Yoon Jong-bin (Korea) • Stone Skipping - Kim Jeong-sik (Korea) • Sunset in My Hometown - Lee Joon-ik (Korea) • The Witch: Part 1. The Subversion - Park Hoon-jung (Korea) 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 A Fine, Windy Day - Lee Jang-ho (Korea) • Children of Darkness Part 1, Young-ae the Songstress - Lee Jang-ho (Korea) • Declaration of Idiot - Lee Jang-ho (Korea) • Eoudong - Lee Jang-ho (Korea) • ''God's Eye View'' - Lee Jang-ho (Korea) • Heavenly Homecoming to Stars - Lee Jang-ho (Korea) • The Man with Three Coffins - Lee Jang-ho (Korea) • Widow Dance - Lee Jang-ho (Korea) World Cinema A Twelve-Year Night - Álvaro Brechner (Spain/Argentina/Uruguay/France) • El Angel - Luis Ortega (Argentina/Spain) • At War - Stéphane Brizé (France) • The Ballad of Buster Scruggs - Ethan Coen, Joel Coen (United States) • Birds of Passage - Ciro Guerra, Cristina GALLEGO (Colombia/France/Mexico/Denmark) • ''Black '47'' - Lance Daly (Ireland) • Blaze - Ethan Hawke (United States) • Border - Ali Abbasi (Sweden) • Buy Me a Gun - Julio Hernández Cordón (Mexico/Colombia) • Capri-Revolution - Mario Martone (Italy) • Cellar - Igor VOLOSHIN (Slovak Republic/Russia/Czech Republic) • Climax - Gaspar Noé (France) • Close Enemies - David Oelhoffen (France/Belgium) • Cold War - Paweł Pawlikowski (Poland/United Kingdom/France) • Damsel - Nathan Zellner, David Zellner (United States) • Dead Women Walking - Hagar BEN-ASHER (United States) • Dogman - Matteo Garrone (Italy/France) • Domingo - Fellipe BARBOSA, Clara LINHART (Brazil) • Donbass - Sergei Loznitsa (Germany/Ukraine/France/Netherlands/Romania) • Everybody Knows - Asghar Farhadi ( France/Spain/Italy) • The Fall of the American Empire - Denys Arcand (Canada) • First Man - Damien Chazelle (United States) • Happy as Lazzaro - Alice Rohrwacher (Italy/Switzerland/France/Germany) • High Life - Claire Denis (France/Germany/United States/United Kingdom) • The Hummingbird Project - Kim Nguyen (Canada/United States) • I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians - Radu Jude (Romania/Czech Republic/France/Bulgaria/Germany) • The Image Book - Jean-Luc Godard (France/Switzerland) • In My Room - Ulrich Köhler (Germany/Italy) • In This Land Nobody Knew How to Cry - Giorgos Panousopoulos (Greece) • Jimmie - Jesper GANSLANDT (Sweden) • The Kindergarten Teacher - Sara Colangelo (United States) • Let Me Fall - Baldvin Zophoníasson (Iceland/Finland/Germany) • Loro - Paolo Sorrentino (Italy/France) • Loveling - Gustavo PIZZI (Brazil/Uruguay) • Mademoiselle de Joncquières - Emmanuel Mouret (France) • The Man Who Killed Don Quixote - Terry Gilliam (Spain/Belgium/Portugal/France) • Mihkel - Ari Alexander ERGIS MAGNÚSSON (Iceland/Estonia/Norway) • Mug - Małgorzata Szumowska (Poland) • Never Look Away - Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck (Germany/Italy) • Non-Fiction - Olivier Assayas (France) • Our Time - Carlos Reygadas (Mexico/France/Germany/Denmark/Sweden) • Roma - Alfonso Cuarón (Mexico) • Sew the Winter to My Skin - Jahmil X.T. QUBEKA (South Africa/Germany) • The Sisters Brothers - Jacques Audiard (France) • Sorry Angel - Christophe Honoré (France) • Steel Country - Simon Fellows (United Kingdom) • Sunset - László Nemes (Hungary/France) • The Trouble with You - Pierre Salvadori (France) • The Wild Pear Tree - Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Turkey/France/Bulgaria/Germany/Bosnia and Herzegovina) • Woman at War - Benedikt ERLINGSSON (Iceland/France/Ukraine) Flash Forward The Accused - Gonzalo Tobal (Argentina/Mexico) • Adam & Evelyn - Andreas Goldstein (Germany) • Angelo - Markus SCHLEINZER (Austria/Luxembourg) • Animal - Armando Bó (Argentina) • Breathing into Marble - Giedrė Beinoriūtė (Lithuania/Latvia/Croatia) • The Chambermaid - Lila Avilés (Mexico) • Cutterhead - Rasmus KLOSTER BRO (Denmark) • The Devil Outside - Andrew Hulme (United Kingdom) • The Dig - Ryan Tohill, Andy Tohill (United Kingdom) • Distances - Elena Trapé (Spain) • The Extraordinary Journey of Celeste Garcia - Arturo Infante (Cuba/Germany) • Float Like a Butterfly - Carmel Winters (Ireland) • Fugue - Agnieszka Smoczyńska (Poland/Czech Republic/Sweden) • Giant Little Ones - Keith Behrman (Canada) • Girl - Lukas Dhont (Belgium) • ''Good Day's Work'' - Martin TURK (Bosnia and Herzegovina/Turkey/Slovenia) • The Little Comrade - Moonika Siimets (Estonia) • The Man Who Bought the Moon - Paolo Zucca (Italy/Albania/Argentina) • The Man who Surprised Everyone - Natasha Merkulova, Aleksey Chupov (Russia/Estonia/France) • Museum - Alonso Ruizpalacios (Mexico) • Our Struggles - Guillaume Senez (Belgium/France) • Pearl - Elsa Amiel (France/Switzerland) • Rafiki - Wanuri Kahiu (Kenya/South Africa/France/Germany/Norway/Netherlands) • Real Love - Claire Burger (France) • Remember? - Valerio Mieli (Italy/France) • Sibel - Çağla Zencirci, Guillaume Giovanetti (France/Germany/Luxembourg/Turkey) • Sofia - Meryem Benm'Barek-Aloïsi (France/Qatar) • Swimming - Luzie Loose (Germany) • The Tobacconist - Nikolaus Leytner (Austria/Germany) • Treat Me Like Fire - Marie MONGE (France) • Twin Flower - Laura Luchetti (Italy) • Urgent - Mohcine Besri (Switzerland/Morocco) • We - René Eller (Netherlands) • ''We'll Be Young and Beautiful'' - Letizia Lamartire (Italy) • Working Woman - Michal Aviad (Israel) 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 - Zhengfan Yang (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 Arctic - Joe Penna (Iceland) • Dying to Survive - WEN Muye (China) • Kursk - Thomas Vinterberg (Luxembourg/Belgium) • More than Blue - Gavin LIN (Taiwan) • My Tyrano: Together, Forever - Kōbun Shizuno (Korea/Japan/China) • One Nation, One King - Pierre Schoeller (France) • Penguin Highway - ISHIDA Hiroyasu (Japan) • Summer - Kirill Serebrennikov (Russia) Special Programs in Focus Philippines Special Program The 1970s - Chito S. Roño (Philippines) • A Portrait of the Artist as Filipino - Lamberto V. Avellana (Philippines) • As We Were - Eddie Romero (Philippines) • The Blacksmith - Ronald Allan POE Jr (Philippines) • Cain and Abel - Lino Brocka (Philippines) • The Dream of Eleutaria - Remton Siega ZUASOLA (Philippines) • Miracle - Ishmael Bernal (Philippines) • Morals - Marilou Diaz-Abaya (Philippines) • Third World Hero - Mike De Leon (Philippines) • Three Godless Years - Mario O'Hara (Philippines) Midnight Passion Arctic - Joe Penna (Iceland) • The Golem - Yoav Paz, Doron Paz (Ukraine/Israel/United States) • Halloween - David Gordon Green (United States) • The House That Jack Built - Lars von Trier (Denmark) • Isabelle - Robert HEYDON (Canada) • Lifechanger - Justin McConnell (Canada) • The Prey - Jimmy Henderson (Cambodia) • The Purity of Vengeance - Christoffer Boe (Denmark) • What Keeps You Alive - Colin Minihan (Canada) Busan Classic Black Peter - Miloš Forman (Czech Republic) • Farewell My Concubine - Chen Kaige (Hong Kong, China/China) • The Fate of Lee Khan - King Hu (Hong Kong, China) • Koryo Saram - Lavrenti Son (Kazakhstan) • The Land of Vaduls - Lavrenti Son (Kazakhstan) • Munna Bhai M.B.B.S. - Rajkumar Hirani (India) • The Other Side of the Wind - Orson Welles (United States) • Padre Padrone - Paolo and Vittorio Taviani (Italy) • Rekava - Lester James Peries (Sri Lanka) • The Scar - Cherd Songsri (Thailand) • The Seventh Seal - Ingmar Bergman (Sweden) • The Year of the Dragon - CHOI Kook-in (Kazakhstan) Closing Master Z: The Ip Man Legacy - Yuen Woo-ping (Hong Kong, China/China) == Awards==
Awards
New Currents AwardClean up - KWON Man-ki (Korea) • SAVAGE - CUI Si Wei (China) • BIFF Mecenat AwardARMY - Kelvin Kyungkun PARK (Korea) • Opening Closing Forgetting - James T. Hong (Taiwan) • Special Mention : A War of Memories - Bora LEE-KIL (Korea) • Sonje AwardCat Day Afternoon - KWON Sungmo (Korea) • NOOREH - Ashish Pandey (India) • Actor & Actress of the Year AwardChoi Hee-seo - Our Body (Korea) • Lee Joo-young - Maggie (Korea) • FIPRESCI AwardThe Red Phallus - Tashi GYELTSHEN (Bhutan/Germany/Nepal) • NETPAC AwardHouse of Hummingbird - KIM Bora (Korea) • Kim Jiseok AwardThe Rib - ZHANG Wei (China) • ''Rona, Azim's Mother'' - Jamshid MAHMOUDI (Afghanistan/Iran) • '''Citizen Critics' Award''' • Maggie - Yi Ok-seop (Korea) • Busan Cinephile AwardBruce Lee and the Outlaw - Joost Vandebrug (United Kingdom/Netherlands/Czech Republic) • DGK AwardBori - Kim Jin-yu (Korea) • Sub-zero Wind - Kim Yuri (Korea) • CGV Arthouse AwardMaggie - Yi Ok-seop (Korea) • KBS Independent Film AwardMaggie - Yi Ok-seop (Korea) • KTH AwardClean up - KWON Man-ki (Korea) • A Boy and Sungreen - Ahn Ju-young (Korea) • The Asian Filmmaker of the YearRyuichi Sakamoto (Japan) • Korean Cinema Award • Martine Thérouanne (France) • Jean-Marc Thérouanne (France) ==References==
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