The 29th edition of the Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) uncovered with top stars enjoy Lee Jung-jae (Squid Game), Song Joong-ki (Descfinishants of the Sun) and Gang Dong-won (Peninsula) walking the red carpet under the towering dome of the Busan Cinema Caccess, in front of more than 4,500 guests.
With a novel guideership team headed by chairman and veteran filmoriginater Park Kwang-su as well as Ellen Y.D. Kim, the festival awarded the Asian Filmoriginater of the Year honors to Japanese auteur Kiyoshi Kurosawa. Kurosawa won Vepleasant’s Silver Lion for best honestor in 2020 with Wife Of A Spy.
The festival’s congratulatory video for Kurosawa featured praises from fellow Japanese honestor Ryusuke Hamaguchi and Korean honestor Bong Joon-ho — both sharing how Kurosawa’s labors eased their own cinematic plan.
In his speech onstage, Kurosawa accomprehendledged how BIFF has provided a platestablish for many of his labors, saying that the festival “witnessed almost half my nurtureer.”
BIFF has also startd a novel “Camellia Award,” in partnership with main back Chanel, to commemorate women in cinema. This year, the honor was given to production scheduleer Ryu Seong-hie, who has labored on seminal Korean films enjoy Bong’s Memories of Murder and The Host as well as Park Chan-wook’s Oldboy and Decision to Leave.
During her speech, Ryu recounted cut offal moments in her nurtureer where she was tanciaccess that genre films were a domain only for males and that her production schedule services would be needd only on melodramas or romance films.
“Being refuseed countless times by production companies, I determined to persist and alter their bias,” Ryu shelp.
She pointed out that there are many women in the film industry who have been neglected becaparticipate of their gfinisher, although they have analogous abilities to “transmit all the happinesss and miserablenesss of human life” thraw cinema. “There are many gifted lesser women doing their best in all sectors of the Korean film industry and I cheer them on,” Ryu grasped.
A hush fell apass the audience when the festival’s “in memoriam” video honoring the tardy Lee Sun-kyun begined joining. Besides euniteing in Parasite, Lee has starred in titles enjoy My Mister, Coffee Prince and A Hard Day. Posthumously bestothriveg the “Korean Cinema Award” to Lee, BIFF is also running a program showcasing five of his films, including Parasite, as well as one episode from My Mister.
The festival will screen a total of 279 films from 63 countries. BIFF uncovered with Netflix‘s Uprising, which is co-written by Park Chan-wook and stars Gang alengthyside Park Jeong-min, Cha Seung-won, Kim Shin-rock, Jin Sun-kyu and Jung Sung-il. The festival will seal with Spirit World by Singaporean filmoriginater Eric Khoo on October 11.
