22nd Busan International Film Festival

The 22nd Busan International Film Festival was held from October 12 to October 21, 2017 at the Busan Cinema Center and hosted by Jang Dong-gun and Im Yoon-ah. A total of 300 films from 75 countries were screened at the festival, including 100 world premieres and 29 international premieres.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]}

On October 15, 2017, President Moon made a surprise visit to the festival, promising noninterference and support for the festival. He also hopes BIFF will restore to its former glory and into a more prominent international film festival.^[9]

A new Kim Jiseok Award was setup to commemorate the late Kim Jiseok, the Deputy Director and Program Director of Busan International Film Festival, who died in May 2017. Kim, also a founding member of the Busan International Film Festival, had since 1996, devoted himself to developing the Busan International Film Festival into a world-renowned film festival in Asia.^[10][11]

Program

Opening

• Glass Garden - Shin Su-won (South Korea)

Gala Presentation

• Butterfly Sleep - Jeong Jae-eun (South Korea/Japan)
• Manhunt - John Woo (Hong Kong, China)
• Mother! - Darren Aronofsky (United States)
• Narratage - Isao Yukisada (Japan)
• The Third Murder - Hirokazu Kore-eda (Japan)

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Alone - Akan Satayev (Kazakhstan)
• Angamaly Diaries - Lijo Jose Pellissery (India)
• Ash - Li Xiaofeng (China)
• Baahubali 2: The Conclusion - S. S. Rajamouli (India)
• A Beautiful Star - Daihachi Yoshida (Japan)
• Before We Vanish - Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Japan)
• Beyond the Clouds - Majid Majidi (India)
• Birds Without Names - Kazuya Shiraishi (Japan)
• Blade of the Immortal - Takashi Miike (Japan/United Kingdom)
• The Bold, the Corrupt, and the Beautiful - Yang Ya-che (Taiwan)
• Mukkabaaz - Anurag Kashyap (India)
• Brotherhood of Blades II: The Infernal Battlefield - LU Yang (China)
• The Carousel Never Stops Turning - Ismail BASBETH (Indonesia)
• Close-Knit - Naoko Ogigami (Japan)
• The Decaying - Sonny CALVENTO (Philippines)
• Dragonfly Eyes - Xu Bing (China)
• Goodbye Kathmandu - Nabin Subba (Nepal)
• The Great Buddha+ - HUANG Hsin-Yao (Taiwan)
• In the Shadows - Dipesh JAIN (India/United Kingdom/Germany)
• The Insult - Ziad Doueiri (Lebanon/France)
• The Journey - Mohamed Al-Daradji (Iraq/United Kingdom/Netherlands)
• A Letter to the President - Roya Sadat (Afghanistan)
• Love and Shukla - Siddartha JATLA (India)
• Malila: The Farewell Flower - Anucha BOONYAWATANA (Thailand)
• A Man of Integrity - Mohammad Rasoulof (Iran)
• Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts - Mouly Surya (Indonesia/France/Malaysia/Thailand)
• Miracles of the Namiya General Store - Ryūichi Hiroki (Japan)
• Missing Johnny - HUANG Xi (Taiwan)
• Munabia - Taalaibek KULMENDEEV (Kyrgyzstan)
• No Bed of Roses - Mostofa Sarwar Farooki (Bangladesh/India)
• No Date, No Signature - Vahid Jalilvand (Iran)
• Omerta - Hansal Mehta (India)
• Our Time Will Come - Ann Hui (China/Hong Kong, China)
• Outrage Coda - Takeshi Kitano (Japan)
• Pigeon Tango - LEE Chi Yuarn (Taiwan)
• Pop Aye - Kirsten Tan (Singapore/Thailand)
• Poppy Goes to Hollywood Redux - Visal SOK (Cambodia)
• Radiance - Naomi Kawase (Japan/France)
• The Ringside Story - TAKE Masaharu (Japan)
• Samui Song - Pen-Ek Ratanaruang (Thailand/Germany/Norway)
• The Scythian Lamb - Daihachi Yoshida (Japan)
• Sea Serpent - Joseph Laban (Philippines)
• The Seen and Unseen - Kamila Andini (Indonesia/Netherlands/Australia/Qatar)
• Side Job - Ryūichi Hiroki (Japan)
• Silent Mist - ZHANG Miaoyan (China/France)
• Smaller and Smaller Circles - Raya Martin (Philippines)
• Sweating the Small Stuff - NINOMIYA Ryutaro (Japan)
• The Tailor - TRAN Buu Loc, Kay NGUYEN (Vietnam)
• They - Anahita GHAZVINIZADEH (United States/Qatar)
• Those Long Haired Nights - Gerardo CALAGUI (Philippines)
• The Tokyo Night Sky Is Always the Densest Shade of Blue - Yuya Ishii (Japan)
• Underpants Thief - Somaratne Dissanayake (Sri Lanka)
• Wajib - Annemarie Jacir (Palestine)
• Walking Past the Future - Li Ruijun (China/Hong Kong, China)
• Wilderness - KISHI Yoshiyuki (Japan)
• ZOO - Shlok SHARMA (India)

New Currents

• After My Death - Kim Ui-seok (Korea)
• Ajji - Devashish Makhija (India)
• Ashwatthama - Pushpendra SINGH (India/Korea)
• Blockage - Mohsen GHARAEI (Iran)
• End of Summer - Zhou Quan (China)
• How to Breathe Underwater - KO Hyunseok (Korea)
• Last Child - SHIN Dongseok (Korea)
• The Last Verse - TSENG Ying-Ting (Taiwan)
• One Night on the Wharf - HAN Dong (China)
• Somewhere Beyond the Mist - CHEUNG King Wai (Hong Kong, China)

Korean Cinema Today - Panorama

• America Town - Jeon Soo-il (Korea)
• Anarchist from Colony - Lee Joon-ik (Korea)
• The Battleship Island: Director's Cut - Ryoo Seung-wan (Korea)
• Bluebeard - LEE Sooyoun (Korea)
• The Day After - Hong Sang-soo (Korea)
• The Emperor - MIN Byunghun, LEE Sanghun (Korea)
• Mermaid - O Muel (Korea)
• Method - PANG Eunjin (Korea)
• Misbehavior - Kim Tae-yong (Korea)
• Missing - E Oni (Korea)
• Notebook from My Mother - KIM Sungho (Korea)
• Okja - Bong Joon-ho (Korea/United States)
• Old Love - PARK Kiyong (Korea/Japan)
• Romans 8:37 - Shin Yeon-shick (Korea)
• Taklamakan - KO Eunki (Korea)
• A Taxi Driver - Jang Hoon (Korea)

Korean Cinema Today - Vision

• Black Summer - LEE Weonyoung (Korea)
• Counting the Stars at Night - CHOI Yongseok (Korea)
• February - KIM Joonghyun (Korea)
• A Haunting Hitchhike - JEONG Heejae (Korea)
• Hit the Night - JEONG Gayoung (Korea)
• Home - KIM Jongwoo (Korea)
• Microhabitat - JEON Gowoon (Korea)
• Mothers - Lee Dong-eun (Korea)
• Park Hwa-young - LEE Hwan (Korea)
• Possible Faces - LEE Kanghyun (Korea)
• A Tiger in Winter - Lee Kwang-kuk (Korea)

Korean Cinema Retrospective

The Legendary Star, Shin Seong-il

• The Barefooted Youth - Kim Ki-duk (Korea)
• A Day Off - Lee Man-hee (Korea)
• Early Rain - Jung Jin-woo (Korea)
• Eunuch - Shin Sang-ok (Korea)
• The General's Mustache - LEE Seong-gu (Korea)
• Gilsotteum - Im Kwon-taek (Korea)
• Heavenly Homecoming to Stars - Lee Jang-ho (Korea)
• Mist - Kim Soo-yong (Korea)

World Cinema

• 9 Fingers  [fr] - F. J. Ossang [fr] (France/Portugal)
• April's Daughter - Michel Franco (Mexico)
• Australia Day - Kriv Stenders (Australia)
• Battle of the Sexes - Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris (United States)
• Beyond the River - Craig FREIMOND (South Africa)
• Bye Bye Germany - Sam Garbarski (Germany/Belgium/Luxembourg)
• Carbon - Olivier Marchal (France)
• The Confession - Zaza Urushadze (Georgia/Estonia)
• Directions - Stephan Komandarev (Bulgaria/Germany/Macedonia)
• Diving - Mélanie Laurent (France)
• The Double Lover - François Ozon (France/Belgium)
• Downsizing - Alexander Payne (United States)
• Equilibrium - Vincenzo Marra (Italy)
• Euphoria - Lisa Langseth (Sweden/Germany)
• A Fantastic Woman - Sebastián Lelio (Chile)
• The Florida Project - Sean Baker (United States)
• Frost - Šarūnas Bartas (Lithuania/France/Poland/Ukraine)
• A Gentle Creature - Sergei Loznitsa (France/Germany/Netherlands/Lithuania)
• Good Manners - Juliana ROJAS, Marco DUTRA (Brazil/France)
• Hochelaga, Land of Souls - François Girard (Canada)
• In the Fade - Fatih Akin (Germany/France)
• The Intruder - Leonardo DI COSTANZO (Italy/Switzerland/France)
• Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc - Bruno Dumont (France)
• Jupiter's Moon - Kornél Mundruczó (Hungary/Germany)
• The Last Suit - Pablo SOLARZ (Argentina/Spain)
• The Leisure Seeker - Paolo Virzì (United States/France/Italy)
• Let the Sunshine In - Claire Denis (France)
• The Lion Sleeps Tonight - Nobuhiro Suwa (Japan/France)
• Longing - Savi Gabizon (Israel)
• Loveless - Andrey Zvyagintsev (Russia/France/Belgium/Germany)
• The Motive - Manuel MARTÍN CUENCA (Spain)
• The Mountain Between Us - Hany Abu-Assad (United States)
• Orchestra Class - Rachid HAMI (France)
• The Other Side of Hope - Aki Kaurismäki (Finland/Germany)
• Platoon - Oliver Stone (United States/United Kingdom)
• Porcupine Lake - Ingrid Veninger (Canada)
• Promise at Dawn - Éric Barbier (France/Belgium)
• Rainbow - A Private Affair - Paolo TAVIANI (Italy/France)
• Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company - Jean-Luc Godard (France/Switzerland)
• Sergio & Sergei - Ernesto DARANAS (Cuba/Spain)
• The Square - Ruben Östlund (Sweden/Germany/France/Denmark)
• The Summit - Santiago Mitre (Argentina)
• Sweet Country - Warwick Thornton (Australia)
• Victoria & Abdul - Stephen Frears (United Kingdom)
• Volubilis - Faouzi Bensaïdi (Morocco/France/Qatar)
• Wonderstruck - Todd Haynes (United States)
• Zama - Lucrecia Martel (Argentina)

Flash Forward

• Beach Rats - Eliza Hittman (United States)
• Beauty and the Dogs - Kaouther Ben Hania (Tunisia/France/Sweden/Norway/Lebanon/Qatar/Switzerland)
• Bitter Flowers - Olivier Meys (Belgium/France/Switzerland/China)
• The Desert Bride - Cecilia ATÁN, Valeria PIVATO (Argentina/Chile)
• Five Fingers for Marseilles - Michael MATTHEWS (South Africa)
• Gabriel and the Mountain - Fellipe GAMARANO BARBOSA (Brazil/France)
• God's Own Country - (United Kingdom)
• Goliath - Dominik LOCHER (Switzerland)
• Head. Two Ears - Vitaly SUSLIN (Russia)
• Home Team - Carlos MORELLI (Uruguay/Argentina/Brazil)
• I Am Not a Witch - Rungano NYONI (United Kingdom/France)
• Life Guidance - Ruth Mader (Austria)
• Little Crusader - Václav Kadrnka (Czech Republic/Slovak Republic/Italy)
• M.F.A. - Natalia Leite (United States)
• The Man with the Magic Box - Bodo Kox (Poland/Italy)
• Manuel - Dario ALBERTINI (Italy)
• Men Don't Cry - Alen DRLJEVIĆ (Bosnia and Herzegovina/Slovenia/Croatia/Germany)
• Montparnasse Bienvenüe - Léonor SERRAILLE (France)
• More - Onur SAYLAK (Turkey)
• Never Steady, Never Still - Kathleen Hepburn (Canada)
• The Nothing Factory - Pedro PINHO (Portugal)
• Oblivion Verses - Alireza KHATAMI (France/Germany/Netherlands/Chile)
• Okafor's Law - Omoni Oboli (Nigeria)
• Pulse - Stevie CRUZ-MARTIN (Australia)
• Ravens - Jens Assur (Sweden)
• Soldiers. Story from Ferentari - Ivana MLADENOVIC (Romania/Serbia/Belgium)
• Summer 1993 - Carla SIMÓN (Spain)
• The Testament - Amichai GREENBERG (Israel/Austria)
• Tom of Finland - Dome Karukoski (Finland/United States)
• Under the Family Tree - Constanze KNOCHE (Germany/Poland)
• Upside Down - Hugo MARTINS (Portugal)
• Veleno - Diego OLIVARES (Italy)
• Violeta at Last - Hilda HIDALGO (Costa Rica/Mexico)
• Where the Shadows Fall - Valentina PEDICINI (Italy)
• Wind Traces - Jimena MONTEMAYOR (Mexico)
• Winter Brothers - Hlynur PÁLMASON (Denmark/Iceland)
• A Worthy Companion - Carlos and Jason Sanchez (Canada)

Wide Angle

Korean Short Film Competition

• Away from Home - LEE Hyebeen, IM Soojin (Korea)
• Beloved - LIM Seungmi (Korea)
• Bright Future - HUR Jungjae (Korea)
• Freeway - HWANG Seulgi (Korea)
• A Friend Holding Crutches - KIM Soyeon (Korea)
• Goner - KIM Hanra (Korea)
• A Hand-written Poster - KWAK Eunmi (Korea)
• The History of Hormone - PARK Jonghyun (Korea)
• Illegal Parking - LEE Inhyuk (Korea)
• Love Jo. Right Now. - JEONG Gayoung (Korea)
• My Father in a Suitcase - KIMO Jisook (Korea)
• Ordinary People - KIM Moonkyeong (Korea)
• Playground - CHOI Cho-ah (Korea)
• The Virgin Flight - HAN Seungju (Korea)
• Yuri in Summer - KIM Seohyeon (Korea)

Asian Short Film Competition

• Cemetery of Courtesy - CHONG Keat Aun (Malaysia)
• Chronicle of a Durian - YANG Xiao (China)
• A Curious Girl - Rajesh Prasad KHATRI (Nepal)
• The Day I Am Gonna Come - HONG Cheng (China)
• Madonna - Sinung WINAHYOKO (Indonesia)
• Myth - HAO Fang-Wei (Taiwan)
• NAGISA - KOGAHARA Takeshi (Japan)
• The Road - Arash KHAYATAN (Iran)
• Suerte - Carlo FAJARDA (Philippines)
• Two Brothers - Raghbir SINGH (India)

Short Film Showcase

• 667 - LIAO Jiekai, HE Shuming, Boo Junfeng, CHONG Jun, Kirsten TAN, Eva TANG (Singapore)
• Braguino - Clément COGITORE (France)
• Death of the Sound Man - Sorayos PRAPAPAN (Thailand/Myanmar)
• Gaze - Farnoosh SAMADI (Iran/Italy)
• A Gentle Night - QIU Yang (China)
• Jodilerks Dela Cruz, Employee of the Month - Carlo Francisco MANATAD (Philippines/Singapore)
• Tshweesh - Feyrouz SERHAL (Lebanon/Germany/Spain/Qatar)
• Where Has Time Gone? - Walter Salles, Alexey FEDORCHENKO, Madhur Bhandarkar, Jia Zhangke, Jahmil X.T. QUBEKA (China/Brazil/Russia/India/South Africa)

Documentary Competition

• Ha Dong Chae Bok: A Song of Two Humans - NAM Seungsuk (Korea)
• I've Got a Little Problem - ZHANG Ximing (China)
• I Want to Go Home - Wesley Leon AROOZOO (Singapore/Japan)
• In the Claws of a Century Wanting - Jewel MARANAN (Philippines/Germany/Qatar)
• Letters - YUN Jéro, Marte VOLD (Korea/Norway)
• REBORN - IM Heungsoon (Korea)
• Sennan Asbestos Disaster - Kazuo Hara (Japan)
• Soseongri - PARK Baeil (Korea)
• Tarling is Darling - Ismail Fahmi LUBIS (Indonesia)
• The Whispering Trees - HEO Chulnyung (Korea)

Documentary Showcase

• After Chosun - MUN Jeonghyun (Korea)
• Behrouz: A Legend on Screen - Sepehr MIKAILIAN (United States)
• Blood Amber - LEE Yong Chao (Taiwan/Myanmar)
• A Cambodian Spring - Chris Kelly (Cambodia/United Kingdom/Ireland/Canada)
• Courtesy to the Nation - GWON Gyungwon (Korea)
• Ecology in Concrete - Jeong Jae-eun (Korea)
• Ex Libris: The New York Public Library - Frederick Wiseman (United States)
• A Feeling Greater Than Love - Mary JIRMANUS SABA (Lebanon)
• A Free Man - Andreas HARTMANN (Germany/Japan)
• Goodbye My Love North Korea - KIM Soyoung (Korea)
• Hugo - Wojciech KLIMALA (Poland)
• I've Got the Blues - Angie CHEN (Hong Kong, China/France)
• A Little Wisdom - KANG Yuqi (Nepal/Canada/China)
• Makala - Emmanuel GRAS (France)
• Mountain - Jennifer Peedom (Australia)
• Mrs. Fang - Wang Bing (Hong Kong, China/France/Germany)
• Vibration: THE YELLOW MONKEY - MATSUNAGA Daishi (Japan)
• The Work - Gethin ALDOUS, Jairus MCLEARY (United States)

Cinekids

• Alice in Wonderland - Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, Wilfred Jackson (United States)
• Bamse and the Witch's Daughter - Christian RYLTENIUS (Sweden)
• Finding Nemo - Andrew Stanton (United States)
• Lila's Book - Marcela RINCÓN GONZÁLEZ (Colombia/Uruguay)
• One Hundred and One Dalmatians - Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, Wolfgang Reitherman (United States)

Animation Showcase

• Have a Nice Day - LIU Jian (China)
• Lu Over the Wall - Masaaki Yuasa (Japan)
• Mary and the Witch's Flower - Hiromasa Yonebayashi (Japan)
• The Night Is Short, Walk on Girl - Masaaki Yuasa (Japan)
• On Happiness Road - SUNG Hsin-Yin (Taiwan)
• Ping Pong The Animation - Masaaki Yuasa (Japan)
• Tehran Taboo - Ali SOOZANDEH (Austria/Germany)
• The Tatami Galaxy - Masaaki Yuasa (Japan)

Open Cinema

• Fireworks, Should We See It from the Side or the Bottom? - Akiyuki Shinbo (Japan)
• Let Me Eat Your Pancreas - TSUKIKAWA Sho (Japan)
• Salyut-7 - Klim SHIPENKO (Russia)
• The Shape of Water - Guillermo del Toro (United States)
• Tomorrow and Thereafter - Noémie Lvovsky (France)
• Zombillenium - Arthur DE PINS, Alexis DUCORD (France/Belgium)

Special Programs in Focus

Suzuki Seijun: A Drifter across the Lines List

• Branded to Kill - Seijun Suzuki (Japan)
• Gate of Flesh - Seijun Suzuki (Japan)
• Kagero-za - Seijun Suzuki (Japan)
• Pistol Opera - Seijun Suzuki (Japan)
• Tokyo Drifter - Seijun Suzuki (Japan)
• Yumeji - Seijun Suzuki (Japan)
• Zigeunerweisen - Seijun Suzuki (Japan)

Sakha Cinema: World of Magical Nature and Myth

• 24 Snow - Mikhail BARYNIN (Russia)
• Deliverance - Gennady BAGYNANOV (Russia)
• Fisherman - Vyacheslav SEMYONOV (Russia)
• His Daughter - Tatyana EVERSTOVA (Russia)
• Keskil 2: Rematch - Dmitry SHADRIN, Alexey EGOROV, Roman DOROFEYEV (Russia)
• Mappa - Alexey ROMANOV (Russia)
• Outlaw - Stepan BURNASHOV (Russia)
• Premonition - Mikhail LUKACHEVSKY, Prokopy NOGOVITSYN (Russia)
• Summer Homestead - Anatoly Vasiliev (Russia)
• The Marvelous Time - Nikita ARZHAKOV (Russia)
• While There Is Wind - Sergey POTAPOV (Russia)
• Wooden Horse - Prokopy NOGOVITSYN (Russia)

Midnight Passion

• The Brink - Jonathan LI (Hong Kong, China)
• Downrange - Ryuhei Kitamura (Japan/United States)
• Ghost Stories - Andy Nyman, Jeremy Dyson (United Kingdom)
• It Stains the Sands Red - Colin Minihan (United States)
• Mayhem - Joe Lynch (United States)
• Parado - Wilson Yip (Hong Kong, China)
• ROKUROKU: The Promise of the Witch - Keita Amemiya (Japan)
• Sweet Virginia - Jamie M. Dagg (United States/Canada)
• TOKYO VAMPIRE HOTEL - Sion Sono (Japan)

Closing

• Love Education - Sylvia Chang (Taiwan)

Awards

• New Currents Award
  • After My Death - Kim Ui-seok (Korea)^[12][13]
  • Blockage - Mohsen GHARAEI (Iran)
• BIFF Mecenat Award
  • Soseongri - PARK Baeil (Korea)
  • Sennan Asbestos Disaster - Kazuo Hara (Japan)
• Sonje Award
  • A Hand-written Poster - KWAK Eunmi (Korea)
  • Madonna - Sinung WINAHYOKO (Indonesia)
• Actor & Actress of the Year Award
  • Hit the Night - Park Jong-hwan (Korea)
  • After My Death - Jeon Yeo-been (Korea)
• FIPRESCI Award
  • Last Child - SHIN Dongseok (Korea)
• NETPAC Award
  • February - KIM Joonghyun (Korea)
• Kim Jiseok Award^[10]
  • Malila: The Farewell Flower - Anucha BOONYAWATANA (Thailand)
  • The Scythian Lamb - Daihachi Yoshida (Japan)
• KNN Award
  • End of Summer - Zhou Quan (China)
• Busan Bank Award
  • Pulse - Stevie CRUZ-MARTIN (Australia)
• Citizen Critics' Award
  • Possible Faces - LEE Kanghyun (Korea)
• Busan Cinephile Award
  • A Free Man - Andreas HARTMANN (Germany/Japan)
• CGV Arthouse Award
  • Microhabitat - JEON Gowoon (Korea)
• Vision-Director's Award
  • February - KIM Joonghyun (Korea)
  • Hit the Night - JEONG Gayoung (Korea)
• The Asian Filmmaker of the Year
  • Seijun Suzuki (Japan)
• Korean Cinema Award
  • Christoph Terhechte (Germany)

References

External links

• BIFF official website

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