“Future Laobans,” a project directed by Maung Sun and produced by Maung Sun and Ma Aeint claimed the Busan Prize, the top award at the Asian Project Market, on Tuesday.
The awards were made at an event held at the Paradise Hotel in Busan’s Haeundae district at the end of three days of quick-fire meetings between producers and directors and an array of potential co-producers, financiers and distributors. Organizers said that they put together 705 such one-on-one meetings on the sidelines of the Busan International Film Festival.
Ma Aeint had not been able to take part in meetings at the Apm or participate in the closing ceremony as she is a political prisoner, currently in prison in Myanmar. She has currently served roughly one and ahalf years of a three-year sentence.
Unable to make a speech at the closing ceremony Maung Sun told Variety: “I’m making this film for her.
The awards were made at an event held at the Paradise Hotel in Busan’s Haeundae district at the end of three days of quick-fire meetings between producers and directors and an array of potential co-producers, financiers and distributors. Organizers said that they put together 705 such one-on-one meetings on the sidelines of the Busan International Film Festival.
Ma Aeint had not been able to take part in meetings at the Apm or participate in the closing ceremony as she is a political prisoner, currently in prison in Myanmar. She has currently served roughly one and ahalf years of a three-year sentence.
Unable to make a speech at the closing ceremony Maung Sun told Variety: “I’m making this film for her.
- 10/11/2022
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Projects selected from 15 countries.
South Korea’s Busan International Film Festival (Biff) has unveiled the 29 titles selected for the 2022 Asian Project Market (Apm).
The film financing event that runs as part of Biff’s Asian Contents and Film Market will return in-person from October 9-11, after taking place as a hybrid event last year due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
From this year, Apm has excluded non-Asian projects to provide more focused support for Asian projects, which must be submitted by directors who have made at least one short or full-length feature as well as producers who have been involved with at least one feature.
South Korea’s Busan International Film Festival (Biff) has unveiled the 29 titles selected for the 2022 Asian Project Market (Apm).
The film financing event that runs as part of Biff’s Asian Contents and Film Market will return in-person from October 9-11, after taking place as a hybrid event last year due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
From this year, Apm has excluded non-Asian projects to provide more focused support for Asian projects, which must be submitted by directors who have made at least one short or full-length feature as well as producers who have been involved with at least one feature.
- 8/12/2022
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Busan International Film Festival (Biff) has announced the 29 projects selected for this year’s Asian Project Market (Apm), a core strand of the festival’s industry activities, including new works from Thailand’s Aditya Assarat, China’s Wang Qi, Vietnam’s Le Bao and Myanmar’s Maung Sun, whose producer Ma Aeint is currently in prison in Yangon.
Ma Aeint, who previously produced Maung Sun’s award-winning Money Has Four Legs, was recently sentenced to three years in jail with hard labor by Myanmar’s military junta, which took over the country in a brutal coup in early 2021. She was accused of “causing fear, spreading fake news or agitating against government employees”. She is attached as a producer to Maung Sun’s new project, Future Laobans, described as a drama about the “international dimension of organized crime.”
Assarat, an award-winning Thai director, is returning to feature-length directing after focusing on producing,...
Ma Aeint, who previously produced Maung Sun’s award-winning Money Has Four Legs, was recently sentenced to three years in jail with hard labor by Myanmar’s military junta, which took over the country in a brutal coup in early 2021. She was accused of “causing fear, spreading fake news or agitating against government employees”. She is attached as a producer to Maung Sun’s new project, Future Laobans, described as a drama about the “international dimension of organized crime.”
Assarat, an award-winning Thai director, is returning to feature-length directing after focusing on producing,...
- 8/11/2022
- by Liz Shackleton
- Deadline Film + TV
Projects to receive up to 80,000 in funding and will premiere at the next Jeonju International Film Festival.
Chilean filmmaker José Luis Torres Leiva’s When Clouds Hide The Shadow and Korean director Jero Yun’s Breath took the top prizes last night (May 3) at the 14th Jeonju Project industry programme.
The Jeonju Cinema Project: Next Edition prizes – awarded to a Korean and international feature – provide up to KW100m in funding for projects to be produced with the caveat that they make their world premieres at the Jeonju International Film Festival. The titles were among eight pitched the previous day.
Chilean filmmaker José Luis Torres Leiva’s When Clouds Hide The Shadow and Korean director Jero Yun’s Breath took the top prizes last night (May 3) at the 14th Jeonju Project industry programme.
The Jeonju Cinema Project: Next Edition prizes – awarded to a Korean and international feature – provide up to KW100m in funding for projects to be produced with the caveat that they make their world premieres at the Jeonju International Film Festival. The titles were among eight pitched the previous day.
- 5/4/2022
- by Jean Noh
- ScreenDaily
Drama and documentary projects hail from Korea, France, Canada, China and Chile.
Gangsters, a Chinese dissident and a female truck driver are among the subjects of eight upcoming features that were pitched at the Jeonju International Film Festival in South Korea on Monday (May 2).
Eight titles were pitched in-person to an international jury as part of the Jeonju Cinema Project: Next Edition programme, which supports the production of innovative and independent films. The winners will receive up to KW100m to complete their film in time for a world premiere at the next edition of Jeonju.
Evenly split between Korean and international projects,...
Gangsters, a Chinese dissident and a female truck driver are among the subjects of eight upcoming features that were pitched at the Jeonju International Film Festival in South Korea on Monday (May 2).
Eight titles were pitched in-person to an international jury as part of the Jeonju Cinema Project: Next Edition programme, which supports the production of innovative and independent films. The winners will receive up to KW100m to complete their film in time for a world premiere at the next edition of Jeonju.
Evenly split between Korean and international projects,...
- 5/2/2022
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Selection includes projects from Korea, France, Canada and China among others.
South Korea’s Jeonju International Film Festival has revealed the selection for this year’s Jeonju Cinema Project pitching programme, including new titles from Fighter director Jero Yun and Canadian filmmaker Isiah Medina.
Jeonju Cinema Project: Next Edition has increased this year’s selection from six to eight – four in the international and four in the domestic project categories – following a reported increase in submissions.
This year’s Korean projects are Tae Jun-sik’s 1997, Lim Sun-ae’s Fixed Love, Fixed Girl, Jero Yun’s Breath and Lee Sangcheol’s My Dear.
South Korea’s Jeonju International Film Festival has revealed the selection for this year’s Jeonju Cinema Project pitching programme, including new titles from Fighter director Jero Yun and Canadian filmmaker Isiah Medina.
Jeonju Cinema Project: Next Edition has increased this year’s selection from six to eight – four in the international and four in the domestic project categories – following a reported increase in submissions.
This year’s Korean projects are Tae Jun-sik’s 1997, Lim Sun-ae’s Fixed Love, Fixed Girl, Jero Yun’s Breath and Lee Sangcheol’s My Dear.
- 2/23/2022
- by Jean Noh
- ScreenDaily
Selection includes projects from Korea, France, Canada and China among others.
South Korea’s Jeonju International Film Festival has revealed the selection for this year’s Jeonju Cinema Project pitching programme, including new titles from Fighter director Jero Yun and Canadian filmmaker Isiah Medina.
Jeonju Cinema Project: Next Edition has increased this year’s selection from six to eight – four in the international and four in the domestic project categories – following a reported increase in submissions.
This year’s Korean projects are Tae Jun-sik’s 1997, Lim Sun-ae’s Fixed Love, Fixed Girl, Jero Yun’s Breath and Lee Sangcheol’s My Dear.
South Korea’s Jeonju International Film Festival has revealed the selection for this year’s Jeonju Cinema Project pitching programme, including new titles from Fighter director Jero Yun and Canadian filmmaker Isiah Medina.
Jeonju Cinema Project: Next Edition has increased this year’s selection from six to eight – four in the international and four in the domestic project categories – following a reported increase in submissions.
This year’s Korean projects are Tae Jun-sik’s 1997, Lim Sun-ae’s Fixed Love, Fixed Girl, Jero Yun’s Breath and Lee Sangcheol’s My Dear.
- 2/23/2022
- by Jean Noh
- ScreenDaily
It is no secret that Jero Yun champions the cause of North Korean refugees. This is evident from his shorts like “Hitchhiker” and his feature-length documentaries “Looking for North Koreans” and “Mrs. B: A North Korean Woman”. His debut fictional feature “Beautiful Days”, which debuted at and opened the Busan International Film Festival in 2018, also told a tale of a refugee. Now, he is back with his sophomore fictional feature “Fighter”, which also saw its premiere at the Busan International Film Festival, winning itself the Netpac Award and its star Lim Sung-mi the Best Actress award.
“Fighter” is screening at Five Flavours Asian Film Festival
Ji-na is a North Korean refugee who has just finished her social adjustment training and has been moved into a government-allocated studio apartment. She has but one aim in mind: earn enough money to get her father, who has already defected from the North and is waiting in China,...
“Fighter” is screening at Five Flavours Asian Film Festival
Ji-na is a North Korean refugee who has just finished her social adjustment training and has been moved into a government-allocated studio apartment. She has but one aim in mind: earn enough money to get her father, who has already defected from the North and is waiting in China,...
- 11/18/2021
- by Rhythm Zaveri
- AsianMoviePulse
The festival has learned of one confirmed case of Covid-19 amongst its attendees to the opening ceremony.
The 26th Busan International Film Festival (Biff) wrapped today (October 15) with Wang Er Zhuo’s Chinese film Farewell, My Hometown and Kim Se-in’s Korean title The Apartment With Two Women winning the two New Currents awards.
The latter film picked up four other awards including actress of the year for Im Jee-ho.
The socially-distanced festival, which required Pcr tests and/or proof of full vaccination from guests, learned of one confirmed case of Covid-19 amongst its attendees to the opening ceremony, October...
The 26th Busan International Film Festival (Biff) wrapped today (October 15) with Wang Er Zhuo’s Chinese film Farewell, My Hometown and Kim Se-in’s Korean title The Apartment With Two Women winning the two New Currents awards.
The latter film picked up four other awards including actress of the year for Im Jee-ho.
The socially-distanced festival, which required Pcr tests and/or proof of full vaccination from guests, learned of one confirmed case of Covid-19 amongst its attendees to the opening ceremony, October...
- 10/15/2021
- by Jean Noh
- ScreenDaily
“Secret of My Father,” by Busan-native filmmaker Jero Yun was announced Thursday as the winner of the Busan Award, the top prize at the Busan International Film Festival’s Asian Project Market.
Calling the project, the “last story in a family trilogy,” Yun said: “I have been dealing with the essential questions of the meaning of family, through individual trauma, conflict and reconciliation, through documentaries and fiction, for over ten years. This will be the last question on this long journey.”
The long-running Apm selects new film projects and facilitates meetings between the creatives and film investors, producers and distributors. This year’s edition ran for three days and adopted a hybrid format that was mostly online, but also allowed the onsite participation of local participants. Organizers said that they had arranged some 500 meetings for the 25 projects (4 up from last year) that hailed from 14 countries and regions.
The seven winners...
Calling the project, the “last story in a family trilogy,” Yun said: “I have been dealing with the essential questions of the meaning of family, through individual trauma, conflict and reconciliation, through documentaries and fiction, for over ten years. This will be the last question on this long journey.”
The long-running Apm selects new film projects and facilitates meetings between the creatives and film investors, producers and distributors. This year’s edition ran for three days and adopted a hybrid format that was mostly online, but also allowed the onsite participation of local participants. Organizers said that they had arranged some 500 meetings for the 25 projects (4 up from last year) that hailed from 14 countries and regions.
The seven winners...
- 10/14/2021
- by Rebecca Souw
- Variety Film + TV
Lim Sung-mi is a fighter. Having made up her mind to become an actor at the age of 16, she never thought of any other occupation as a career choice since. She graduated from Korea National University of Arts, Seoul and has been working consistently in the industry for 13 years in supporting roles, both big and small. But it wasn’t years later that she landed her first leading role in a feature film with Jero Yun’s “Fighter”.
Lim Sung-mi is the Fighter. The actress effortlessly embodies the role of Ji-na, a North Korean refugee in South Korea who takes up the sport of boxing in a film that has managed to garner a number of awards at international film festivals. Lim manages to show several layers to her performance and, by extension, to her talent in a role that has received praise from critics and audience alike and landed...
Lim Sung-mi is the Fighter. The actress effortlessly embodies the role of Ji-na, a North Korean refugee in South Korea who takes up the sport of boxing in a film that has managed to garner a number of awards at international film festivals. Lim manages to show several layers to her performance and, by extension, to her talent in a role that has received praise from critics and audience alike and landed...
- 9/2/2021
- by Rhythm Zaveri
- AsianMoviePulse
Ovid.tv, which is available in the U.S. and Canada, is proud to announce its wide-ranging selection of films coming in August with 30 documentaries (and one short fiction film) as part of its first ever Doc Month including 24 Exclusive Streaming Premieres.
Highlights include two new documentary features by Vitaly Mansky as well Mila Turajlić’s The Other Side of Everything, which won Best Documentary at International Documentary Festival Amsterdam 2018. The Independent has hailed this Serbian filmmaker as “one of the most galvanizing voices for political action in contemporary documentary cinema.”
There are also two docs on climate change by David Abel (Entangled and Lobster War), and one short fiction film, Killing Time by Fronza Woods along with her short doc Fannie’s Film. Stop, by Spencer Wolff, examines the class-action lawsuit that challenged the New York City Police Department’s practice of stop & frisk; Sophie Fiennes’ Over Your Cities...
Highlights include two new documentary features by Vitaly Mansky as well Mila Turajlić’s The Other Side of Everything, which won Best Documentary at International Documentary Festival Amsterdam 2018. The Independent has hailed this Serbian filmmaker as “one of the most galvanizing voices for political action in contemporary documentary cinema.”
There are also two docs on climate change by David Abel (Entangled and Lobster War), and one short fiction film, Killing Time by Fronza Woods along with her short doc Fannie’s Film. Stop, by Spencer Wolff, examines the class-action lawsuit that challenged the New York City Police Department’s practice of stop & frisk; Sophie Fiennes’ Over Your Cities...
- 7/22/2021
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
Jero Yun’s “Fighter” wins the award for best film of the 19th edition of Florence Korea Film Fest, with the story of Ji-na, a North Korean refugee in Seoul, who will redeem a life on the margins thanks to her passion for boxing. This concludes the festival dedicated to the cinema of South Korea, with the award ceremony in the hall at the La Compagnia cinema. It will be possible to continue to watch the shows of the festival until June 3 online, in streaming on the Più Compagnia and MyMovies.it platforms.
The film – selected among those competing in the “Korean Horizons” section – represents a perfect metaphor of tenacity, redemption and a spirit of adaptation. The vision invites to a reflection on current social equilibrium and on the historical relationship with North Korea, in an intimate and independent key, that of Jero Yun, director born in 1980, with over 10 films to...
The film – selected among those competing in the “Korean Horizons” section – represents a perfect metaphor of tenacity, redemption and a spirit of adaptation. The vision invites to a reflection on current social equilibrium and on the historical relationship with North Korea, in an intimate and independent key, that of Jero Yun, director born in 1980, with over 10 films to...
- 5/28/2021
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
Over 100 films, stories of women, of precarious work, portraits of contemporary Korean society, between bourgeoisie and working classes; this is the 19th edition of the Florence Korea Film Fest, the most important Italian festival dedicated to the best of cinematography of contemporary South Korea, from 21 to 28 May in Florence, live (pending the provisions regarding the health emergency) at the La Compagnia cinema and online on the Più Compagnia and Mymovies.it platforms. The event, conceived and directed by Riccardo Gelli of the Taegukgi – Toscana Korea Association, is organized with the support of the Tuscany System Foundation, the Tuscany Region, the Metropolitan City of Florence, the Municipality of Florence, Kofic – Korean Film Council.
As every year, the Programme features a rich lineup of over 100 films, including short films and documentaries. Spotlights are on the homage to Kim Ki-Duk, one of the most important filmmakers in world cinema – who recently passed away, at...
As every year, the Programme features a rich lineup of over 100 films, including short films and documentaries. Spotlights are on the homage to Kim Ki-Duk, one of the most important filmmakers in world cinema – who recently passed away, at...
- 5/20/2021
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Berlinale has developed a new festival format for its 71st edition.
In 2021, the Competition, Berlinale Special & Berlinale Series, Encounters, Berlinale Shorts, Panorama, Forum & Forum Expanded, Generation and Perspektive Deutsches Kino have been reduced in size due to the pandemic.
The majority of the Film Selection will be available for viewing online by industry representatives and accredited members of the press during the Industry Event from March 1–5, 2021.
During the Summer Special from June 9–20, 2021, Berlinale audiences will be able to see the majority of the films selected by all the sections in numerous cinema screenings in the presence of the filmmakers.
Limbo by by Cheang Soi
Let’s have a look at the Asian Films in the different sections of the Festival:
Competition:
Ghasideyeh gave sefid (Ballad of a White Cow)
Iran / France
by Behtash Sanaeeha, Maryam Moghaddam *World premiere
Guzen to sozo (Wheel of Fortune...
In 2021, the Competition, Berlinale Special & Berlinale Series, Encounters, Berlinale Shorts, Panorama, Forum & Forum Expanded, Generation and Perspektive Deutsches Kino have been reduced in size due to the pandemic.
The majority of the Film Selection will be available for viewing online by industry representatives and accredited members of the press during the Industry Event from March 1–5, 2021.
During the Summer Special from June 9–20, 2021, Berlinale audiences will be able to see the majority of the films selected by all the sections in numerous cinema screenings in the presence of the filmmakers.
Limbo by by Cheang Soi
Let’s have a look at the Asian Films in the different sections of the Festival:
Competition:
Ghasideyeh gave sefid (Ballad of a White Cow)
Iran / France
by Behtash Sanaeeha, Maryam Moghaddam *World premiere
Guzen to sozo (Wheel of Fortune...
- 2/11/2021
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
Instead of simply writing our wishes to all our readers, for 2021 we decided to ask our friends to do so.
Mattie Do, Joko Anwar, Taku Tsuboi, Indrasis Acharya, Leena Alam, Takeshi Kushida, Bront Palarae, Torico, Isabel Sandoval, Ryo Katayama, Anthony Chen, Roya Sadat, Kazutaka Watanabe, Akio Fujimoto, Min Siu Goh, Scott C. Hillyard, Gerald Chew, Amy Cheng, Ronny Sen, Kenichi Ugana, Mostofa Sarwar Farooki, Park Jung Bum, Kim Min-jae, Shogen, Atsushi Funahashi, Jero Yun, Shuna Iijima and Khavn responded to our call. Check out their wishes...
Mattie Do, Joko Anwar, Taku Tsuboi, Indrasis Acharya, Leena Alam, Takeshi Kushida, Bront Palarae, Torico, Isabel Sandoval, Ryo Katayama, Anthony Chen, Roya Sadat, Kazutaka Watanabe, Akio Fujimoto, Min Siu Goh, Scott C. Hillyard, Gerald Chew, Amy Cheng, Ronny Sen, Kenichi Ugana, Mostofa Sarwar Farooki, Park Jung Bum, Kim Min-jae, Shogen, Atsushi Funahashi, Jero Yun, Shuna Iijima and Khavn responded to our call. Check out their wishes...
- 1/5/2021
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Additional questions by Rhythm Zaveri
Born in Busan in 1980, Jero Yun went to study in France at the age of 21, where he studied at the Fine Arts School in Nancy and later in the video/photo section at the National Decorative Arts School in Paris. Since his very first work as a filmmaker, the documentary short “Promise”, Yun has been interested in the subject of North Koreans and defectors to the South, a subject that he has been working on inn a number of projects including his first feature-length documentary “Looking For North Koreans”, his first feature film “Beautiful Days” and his newest fictional feature “Fighter”.
On the occasion of “Fighter” screening at Busan International Film Festival, we talked to him on the subject of North Korean refugees and the South Korean public’s perception of them, his actors and more.
Both “Beautiful Days” and “Fighter” have premiered at Busan International Film Festival.
Born in Busan in 1980, Jero Yun went to study in France at the age of 21, where he studied at the Fine Arts School in Nancy and later in the video/photo section at the National Decorative Arts School in Paris. Since his very first work as a filmmaker, the documentary short “Promise”, Yun has been interested in the subject of North Koreans and defectors to the South, a subject that he has been working on inn a number of projects including his first feature-length documentary “Looking For North Koreans”, his first feature film “Beautiful Days” and his newest fictional feature “Fighter”.
On the occasion of “Fighter” screening at Busan International Film Festival, we talked to him on the subject of North Korean refugees and the South Korean public’s perception of them, his actors and more.
Both “Beautiful Days” and “Fighter” have premiered at Busan International Film Festival.
- 11/9/2020
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
It is no secret that Jero Yun champions the cause of North Korean refugees. This is evident from his shorts like “Looking for North Koreans” or “Hitchhiker” and his feature-length documentary “Mrs. B: A North Korean Woman”. His debut fictional feature “Beautiful Days”, which debuted at and opened the Busan International Film Festival in 2018, also told a tale of a refugee. Now, he is back with his sophomore fictional feature “Fighter”, which also saw its premiere at the Busan International Film Festival, winning itself the Netpac Award and its star Lim Sung-mi the Best Actress award.
“Fighter” screened at Busan International Film Festival
Ji-na is a North Korean refugee who has just finished her social adjustment training and has been moved into a government-allocated studio apartment. She has but one aim in mind: earn enough money to get her father, who has already defected from the North and is waiting in China,...
“Fighter” screened at Busan International Film Festival
Ji-na is a North Korean refugee who has just finished her social adjustment training and has been moved into a government-allocated studio apartment. She has but one aim in mind: earn enough money to get her father, who has already defected from the North and is waiting in China,...
- 11/6/2020
- by Rhythm Zaveri
- AsianMoviePulse
After opening the festival in 2018 with Beautiful Days, director Jero Yun returned to Busan this year with his second narrative feature Fighter, which once again focuses on a North Korean defector's difficult experience adjusting in South Korea, and how it tears apart her family. As a sports film and a social drama, Yun's latest is a by-the-numbers affair, but it succeeds as a character study, largely thanks to Lim Seong-mi's formidable lead performance. Yun actually had two films at the festival this year, along with the documentary Song Hae 1927. After spending several months in a readjustment center, North Korean defector Jin-ah is relocated to her own apartment and starts looking for work. She finds a gruelling job as a server at a small...
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- 11/2/2020
- Screen Anarchy
This year’s Busan International Film Festival – one of the key players in the Asian film market and indicators of emerging Asian film talent – experimented with a hybrid approach akin to Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (Bifan). In-person theaters filled up at 25 percent capacity, requiring a strict set of health screenings and restrictions for all attendees. Online screenings remained – well – online, but — interestingly enough — multinational screenings were cast simultaneously. This allowed certain Q&As to be conducted in real-time, wherein Korean audiences could speak to international guests within theatres.
Though there are less awards than last year, Korean productions still dominate this year’s selections. Some familiar faces, like Lee Woo-jung — perhaps most famous for writing the hit nostalgia drama “Reply 1988” — has plucked a few awards for her new feature, “Snowball.” Cannes-repeat Jero Yun also returns with his first fictional feature, “Fighter.” Among the newcomers, Jung Wook’s directorial...
Though there are less awards than last year, Korean productions still dominate this year’s selections. Some familiar faces, like Lee Woo-jung — perhaps most famous for writing the hit nostalgia drama “Reply 1988” — has plucked a few awards for her new feature, “Snowball.” Cannes-repeat Jero Yun also returns with his first fictional feature, “Fighter.” Among the newcomers, Jung Wook’s directorial...
- 11/1/2020
- by Grace Han
- AsianMoviePulse
Biff managed to achieve physical admissions of 29,135 despite pandemic social distancing requirements.
The 25th Busan International Film Festival (Biff)’s New Currents Awards went to Harumoto Jujiro’s Japanese film A Balance and Pak Ruslan’s Kazakhstan-Korea-Uzbekistan co-production Three in a closed ceremony last night.
Biff organisers announced the winners and closing results in a Zoom press conference this morning (October 30) in Busan.
The New Currents jury headed by director Mira Nair said of the top winners A Balance and Three: “Both are drawn by deep contemplation on human society, yet each has achieved its own unique cinematic language.
“Even...
The 25th Busan International Film Festival (Biff)’s New Currents Awards went to Harumoto Jujiro’s Japanese film A Balance and Pak Ruslan’s Kazakhstan-Korea-Uzbekistan co-production Three in a closed ceremony last night.
Biff organisers announced the winners and closing results in a Zoom press conference this morning (October 30) in Busan.
The New Currents jury headed by director Mira Nair said of the top winners A Balance and Three: “Both are drawn by deep contemplation on human society, yet each has achieved its own unique cinematic language.
“Even...
- 10/30/2020
- by Jean Noh
- ScreenDaily
The Busan International Film Festival concluded its 25th edition on Friday with the announcement of prizes across its multiple sections. The competitive New Currents section saw the top prize shared between “A Balance” from Japanese director Harumoto Yujiro and “Three,” a Kazakhstan-Korea- Uzbekistan co-venture directed by Pak Ruslan.
The festival operated a hybrid format, with most events shifted online due to the coronavirus outbreak alongside a handful of in-person screenings at the Busan Cinema Center. It reported that over its ten day run (Oct. 21-30) it had attracted 20,100 visitors to its onsite screenings. Its aggregate online visitors numbered just 30,200 for its Biff Forum, Asia Contents Awards, the Asian Film Awards, and the Master Class lecture.
“Although the total number of festival audiences remained approximately 18,000 due to 25% occupancy for each theater, it was a noteworthy number that shows the love and support of the audience for the Busan International Film Festival,...
The festival operated a hybrid format, with most events shifted online due to the coronavirus outbreak alongside a handful of in-person screenings at the Busan Cinema Center. It reported that over its ten day run (Oct. 21-30) it had attracted 20,100 visitors to its onsite screenings. Its aggregate online visitors numbered just 30,200 for its Biff Forum, Asia Contents Awards, the Asian Film Awards, and the Master Class lecture.
“Although the total number of festival audiences remained approximately 18,000 due to 25% occupancy for each theater, it was a noteworthy number that shows the love and support of the audience for the Busan International Film Festival,...
- 10/30/2020
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
About The Film
In 1945, at the end of World War II, the United States and Russia divided the Korean peninsula into two. The Russian supported North remained “Joseon”, the original name for the country as a whole while the Us-backed South renamed itself to “Hanguk”, thus creating a divide between people that have otherwise the same language, ancestry and roots and who should otherwise have the same rights to the peninsula as a whole. Ever since, the two countries have been at loggerheads, a peace treatise following the Korean War in 1953 only existing in name. The propaganda machines for both countries have since been eager to call the government and the people of the other the cause of the problem and the obstacle standing in the way of a complete reunification.
Synopsis
Ever since his school days, director Jero Yun has been taught, just like his classmates and every other student in the country,...
In 1945, at the end of World War II, the United States and Russia divided the Korean peninsula into two. The Russian supported North remained “Joseon”, the original name for the country as a whole while the Us-backed South renamed itself to “Hanguk”, thus creating a divide between people that have otherwise the same language, ancestry and roots and who should otherwise have the same rights to the peninsula as a whole. Ever since, the two countries have been at loggerheads, a peace treatise following the Korean War in 1953 only existing in name. The propaganda machines for both countries have since been eager to call the government and the people of the other the cause of the problem and the obstacle standing in the way of a complete reunification.
Synopsis
Ever since his school days, director Jero Yun has been taught, just like his classmates and every other student in the country,...
- 5/17/2020
- by Rhythm Zaveri
- AsianMoviePulse
In 1945, at the end of World War II, the United States and Russia divided the Korean peninsula into two. The Russian supported North remained “Joseon”, the original name for the country as a whole while the Us-backed South renamed itself to “Hanguk”, thus creating a divide between people that have otherwise the same language, ancestry and roots and who should otherwise have the same rights to the peninsula as a whole. Ever since, the two countries have been at loggerheads, a peace treatise following the Korean War in 1953 only existing in name. The propaganda machines for both countries have since been eager to call the government and the people of the other the cause of the problem and the obstacle standing in the way of a complete reunification.
Ever since his school days, director Jero Yun has been taught, just like his classmates and every other student in the country,...
Ever since his school days, director Jero Yun has been taught, just like his classmates and every other student in the country,...
- 5/15/2020
- by Rhythm Zaveri
- AsianMoviePulse
About This Film
Jero Yun’s short film “Hitchhiker” played in the Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes and takes a unique look at North Korea-South Korea relationships.
Synopsis
A Man sits idly on railway tracks at dusk. As the day turns dark, he starts walking down a secluded road, asking for a lift from any passing vehicle, with no luck. After a while, he stops a mini-truck by stepping in front of it and, uninvited, he gets into the vehicle, asking only one thing of the driver, “Will you have a drink with me?” Suspecting him to be a North Korean spy because of his accent, the driver takes the man straight to the police station, where he is entrusted to a Lieutenant till they are able to verify the Man’s identity. Once again, the Man has but one thing to ask of the Lieutenant, “Have a drink with me.
Jero Yun’s short film “Hitchhiker” played in the Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes and takes a unique look at North Korea-South Korea relationships.
Synopsis
A Man sits idly on railway tracks at dusk. As the day turns dark, he starts walking down a secluded road, asking for a lift from any passing vehicle, with no luck. After a while, he stops a mini-truck by stepping in front of it and, uninvited, he gets into the vehicle, asking only one thing of the driver, “Will you have a drink with me?” Suspecting him to be a North Korean spy because of his accent, the driver takes the man straight to the police station, where he is entrusted to a Lieutenant till they are able to verify the Man’s identity. Once again, the Man has but one thing to ask of the Lieutenant, “Have a drink with me.
- 5/15/2020
- by Rhythm Zaveri
- AsianMoviePulse
A Man sits idly on railway tracks at dusk. As the day turns dark, he starts walking down a secluded road, asking for a lift from any passing vehicle, with no luck. After a while, he stops a mini-truck by stepping in front of it and, uninvited, he gets into the vehicle, asking only one thing of the driver, “Will you have a drink with me?” Suspecting him to be a North Korean spy because of his accent, the driver takes the man straight to the police station, where he is entrusted to a Lieutenant till they are able to verify the Man’s identity. Once again, the Man has but one thing to ask of the Lieutenant, “Have a drink with me.”
Jero Yun’s film, which plated in the Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes, has an interesting premise and builds up an intriguing mystery, but it ends up frustrating with its ambiguity.
Jero Yun’s film, which plated in the Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes, has an interesting premise and builds up an intriguing mystery, but it ends up frustrating with its ambiguity.
- 5/12/2020
- by Rhythm Zaveri
- AsianMoviePulse
Leading independent producers from Asia and Europe showed the complicated routes taken in making indie films that are co-produced between the two regions.
They were gathered on Monday at Platform Busan, the Busan International Film Festival’s venue for sharing experiences.
Raymond Phathanavirangoon, a Bangkok-based producer and co-founder of the Seafic script lab, took the audience on the myriad paths taken by 2016 multi-country co-production “Apprentice,” by Singapore’s Boo Junfeng, that he co-wrote and co-produced.
The project was introduced in 2012 at the Rotterdam CineMart, then benefited from the Busan Asian Cinema Script Development Fund and Singapore’s Media Development Authority Development Fund before going to the Jerusalem Script Lab the same year. In 2013, the project received funding from Germany’s Film – und Medienstiftung Nrw and France’s Aide aux Cinemas du Monde.
In 2014, Germany’s Zdf Das Kleine Fernsehspiel did a pre-buy. The same year “Apprentice” received a Singapore Media Development Authority Production Grant.
They were gathered on Monday at Platform Busan, the Busan International Film Festival’s venue for sharing experiences.
Raymond Phathanavirangoon, a Bangkok-based producer and co-founder of the Seafic script lab, took the audience on the myriad paths taken by 2016 multi-country co-production “Apprentice,” by Singapore’s Boo Junfeng, that he co-wrote and co-produced.
The project was introduced in 2012 at the Rotterdam CineMart, then benefited from the Busan Asian Cinema Script Development Fund and Singapore’s Media Development Authority Development Fund before going to the Jerusalem Script Lab the same year. In 2013, the project received funding from Germany’s Film – und Medienstiftung Nrw and France’s Aide aux Cinemas du Monde.
In 2014, Germany’s Zdf Das Kleine Fernsehspiel did a pre-buy. The same year “Apprentice” received a Singapore Media Development Authority Production Grant.
- 10/7/2019
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
By Shikhar Verma
I spent around 70 minutes with Mrs. B. During this duration, I lived with her two families and got to know about two decades of her lifetime. I still don’t know her name but as the documentary came to an end, I felt worried for her fate. When a person is split between two things – both of which are equally important, what does one do? I hope singing about one’s sorrow and inhibition helps.
“Mrs. B., a North Korean Woman” screened at the New York Asian Film Festival
Jero Yun’s documentary ‘Mrs. B., A North Korean Woman’, opens with a chaotic sequence in a car of what seems like an ongoing human trafficking scene. The hand-held camera pans around Mrs. B and her convincing act soon cuts off to a low-class household on the countryside. Mrs. B is a middle-aged woman who kicks-off her scooter...
I spent around 70 minutes with Mrs. B. During this duration, I lived with her two families and got to know about two decades of her lifetime. I still don’t know her name but as the documentary came to an end, I felt worried for her fate. When a person is split between two things – both of which are equally important, what does one do? I hope singing about one’s sorrow and inhibition helps.
“Mrs. B., a North Korean Woman” screened at the New York Asian Film Festival
Jero Yun’s documentary ‘Mrs. B., A North Korean Woman’, opens with a chaotic sequence in a car of what seems like an ongoing human trafficking scene. The hand-held camera pans around Mrs. B and her convincing act soon cuts off to a low-class household on the countryside. Mrs. B is a middle-aged woman who kicks-off her scooter...
- 6/22/2019
- by Rhythm Zaveri
- AsianMoviePulse
Director Singing Chen graduated from the Advertising division of Department of Mass Communications of Fu Jen Catholic University. During her college years, she practiced film-making in Huang Ming-chuan’s studio specializing in documentaries. Extended training in the field of independent film-making has consolidated her experience in shooting and production.
Her films often revolve around humanity, art and culture. Based on extended production periods spanning five to ten years, they show delicate and profound visions of life derived from long-term shooting and observation. “The Walkers” (2014), a feature-length documentary about renowned Taiwanese choreographer Lin Lee-chen and her Legend Lin Dance Theatre, was selected into Taipei Film Festival. Her first narrative feature, “Bundled” was about hobos on the margins of the city. She then wrote, edited and directed “God Man Dog” (2007) that was selected into “Forum” at Berlinale and won Best Film Award of Der Tagesspiegel in Germany. In 2013, she collaborated with Jero Yun...
Her films often revolve around humanity, art and culture. Based on extended production periods spanning five to ten years, they show delicate and profound visions of life derived from long-term shooting and observation. “The Walkers” (2014), a feature-length documentary about renowned Taiwanese choreographer Lin Lee-chen and her Legend Lin Dance Theatre, was selected into Taipei Film Festival. Her first narrative feature, “Bundled” was about hobos on the margins of the city. She then wrote, edited and directed “God Man Dog” (2007) that was selected into “Forum” at Berlinale and won Best Film Award of Der Tagesspiegel in Germany. In 2013, she collaborated with Jero Yun...
- 4/12/2019
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
Timothy Yeung’s Hong Kong-Canada co-production project “Yesterday Will Be Perfect” led the Busan International Film Festival’s Asian Project Market awards, winning the new Mas award of $20,000.
The winners included four Korean projects: Jang Woo-jin’s “The Final Print” won the Busan award that provides $15,000; the Lotte award that provides $8,800 to a Korean project went to Kim Ui-seok’s “The Martydom”; sponsored by Korea Creative Content Agency, the Kocca awards of $8,800 went to Shin Dong-seok’s “In the Water”; Jero Yun, director of Busan’s opening film “Beautiful Days,” won the Moneff award that provides $20,000 worth of post-production services, for his next project “Man of the Sea.”
The Bright East Films award of $15,000 went to Chinese director Liu Yanwenjun’s “Blossom.” Thai director Kongdej Jaturanrasmee’s “Where We Belong” won the Cj Entertainment award of $10,000 that comes with a first-look option for production, investment, sales and distribution.
Emma Kawawada...
The winners included four Korean projects: Jang Woo-jin’s “The Final Print” won the Busan award that provides $15,000; the Lotte award that provides $8,800 to a Korean project went to Kim Ui-seok’s “The Martydom”; sponsored by Korea Creative Content Agency, the Kocca awards of $8,800 went to Shin Dong-seok’s “In the Water”; Jero Yun, director of Busan’s opening film “Beautiful Days,” won the Moneff award that provides $20,000 worth of post-production services, for his next project “Man of the Sea.”
The Bright East Films award of $15,000 went to Chinese director Liu Yanwenjun’s “Blossom.” Thai director Kongdej Jaturanrasmee’s “Where We Belong” won the Cj Entertainment award of $10,000 that comes with a first-look option for production, investment, sales and distribution.
Emma Kawawada...
- 10/9/2018
- by Sonia Kil
- Variety Film + TV
The Final Print, directed by Jang Woo-jin, wins $15,000 top prize.
At the Busan International Film Festival (Biff), the Asian Project Market (Apm) wrapped today (9 Oct) with the Busan Award going to The Final Print, directed by Jang Woo-jin and produced by Han Sunhee.
Sponsored by Busan Metropolitan City, the Busan Award comes with a cash prize of $15,000.
Currently in script development, The Final Print follows a South Korean photographer in Berlin who takes pictures of her night drinking and getting high with a North Korean couple she meets. Upon waking the next day she learns they have suddenly died, so...
At the Busan International Film Festival (Biff), the Asian Project Market (Apm) wrapped today (9 Oct) with the Busan Award going to The Final Print, directed by Jang Woo-jin and produced by Han Sunhee.
Sponsored by Busan Metropolitan City, the Busan Award comes with a cash prize of $15,000.
Currently in script development, The Final Print follows a South Korean photographer in Berlin who takes pictures of her night drinking and getting high with a North Korean couple she meets. Upon waking the next day she learns they have suddenly died, so...
- 10/9/2018
- by Jean Noh
- ScreenDaily
Staff handed out plastic ponchos. Red carpet-goers toted capes and umbrellas on Thursday night in Busan’s Centum City. But the storm clouds whipped up by Typhoon Kong-Rey served more to add to the atmosphere of the Busan International Film Festival’s opening ceremony, rather than to dampen spirits.
After three years being buffeted by a political storm, and a partially-observed cold front of a Korean industry boycott, there was a sense that the festival is returning to some kind of normality.
While the iconic former festival chief Kim Dong-ho was not spotted on the red carpet, the festival is now, once again, in the hands of Lee Yong-kwan and Jay Jeon, who co-founded the festival with Kim 23 years ago.
A highlight of the opening ceremony was the barely announced arrival of ace music composer Ryuichi Sakamoto. He strode across the stage and knocked out a piano medley, including a segment from “Merry Christmas,...
After three years being buffeted by a political storm, and a partially-observed cold front of a Korean industry boycott, there was a sense that the festival is returning to some kind of normality.
While the iconic former festival chief Kim Dong-ho was not spotted on the red carpet, the festival is now, once again, in the hands of Lee Yong-kwan and Jay Jeon, who co-founded the festival with Kim 23 years ago.
A highlight of the opening ceremony was the barely announced arrival of ace music composer Ryuichi Sakamoto. He strode across the stage and knocked out a piano medley, including a segment from “Merry Christmas,...
- 10/4/2018
- by Sonia Kil and Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Ryuichi Sakamoto played at the opening ceremony with stars including Bai Baihe, Yang Kuei-mei, Jang Dong-gun and Hyun Bin on the red carpet.
The 23rd Busan International Film Festival (Biff) kicked off tonight (October 4) with a windy, star-studded red carpet and a piano performance from Asian Filmmaker of the Year award winner Ryuichi Sakamoto, amidst reports of an approaching typhoon.
Reinstated festival head Jay Jeon and chairman Lee Yong-kwan emphasised a return to “stability and harmony” after four years of conflict over freedom of expression issues that swept through South Korea, as well as Biff, as part of deposed president Park Geun-hye’s blacklisting efforts.
The 23rd Busan International Film Festival (Biff) kicked off tonight (October 4) with a windy, star-studded red carpet and a piano performance from Asian Filmmaker of the Year award winner Ryuichi Sakamoto, amidst reports of an approaching typhoon.
Reinstated festival head Jay Jeon and chairman Lee Yong-kwan emphasised a return to “stability and harmony” after four years of conflict over freedom of expression issues that swept through South Korea, as well as Biff, as part of deposed president Park Geun-hye’s blacklisting efforts.
- 10/4/2018
- by Jean Noh
- ScreenDaily
Jero Yun, the Korean filmmaker behind Busan International Film Festival’s opening night film “Beautiful Days,” is a Busan-born filmmaker who has spent more than a decade studying and filmmaking in France. Yun is best-known for his shorts and documentaries about North Koreans in China, including “Promise” (2010), “Looking for North Koreans” (2012) and “Mrs. B., a North Korean Woman” (2016), which have played at international film festivals such as Cannes, Moscow and Zurich.
In “Beautiful Days,” his first fiction feature, Yun still sticks to the same theme. The story sees the story of a boy from China and his mother, who turns out to be a North Korean refugee, reuniting after years of separation.
“Since 2011, I’ve been talking about people on the border and connecting the theme with family and division (of Korea),” said Yun at the film’s press conference on Oct. 4. “When I was in Paris, I met a...
In “Beautiful Days,” his first fiction feature, Yun still sticks to the same theme. The story sees the story of a boy from China and his mother, who turns out to be a North Korean refugee, reuniting after years of separation.
“Since 2011, I’ve been talking about people on the border and connecting the theme with family and division (of Korea),” said Yun at the film’s press conference on Oct. 4. “When I was in Paris, I met a...
- 10/4/2018
- by Sonia Kil
- Variety Film + TV
The 23rd Busan International Film Festival opened on Thursday in the South Korean port city of Busan with the premiere of local family drama Beautiful Days.
"It’s a film that presents questions about [the meaning of] family," filmmaker Jero Yun told reporters following a press preview at Busan Cinema Center on Thursday. "I wanted to pose questions about family, breakups and reunions through a story about a mother who reunites with her son after a long time of being apart."
The film is about a North Korean defector who reconnects with her Korean-Chinese son after ...
"It’s a film that presents questions about [the meaning of] family," filmmaker Jero Yun told reporters following a press preview at Busan Cinema Center on Thursday. "I wanted to pose questions about family, breakups and reunions through a story about a mother who reunites with her son after a long time of being apart."
The film is about a North Korean defector who reconnects with her Korean-Chinese son after ...
- 10/4/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
The 23rd Busan International Film Festival opened on Thursday in the South Korean port city of Busan with the premiere of local family drama Beautiful Days.
"It’s a film that presents questions about [the meaning of] family," filmmaker Jero Yun told reporters following a press preview at Busan Cinema Center on Thursday. "I wanted to pose questions about family, breakups and reunions through a story about a mother who reunites with her son after a long time of being apart."
The film is about a North Korean defector who reconnects with her Korean-Chinese son after ...
"It’s a film that presents questions about [the meaning of] family," filmmaker Jero Yun told reporters following a press preview at Busan Cinema Center on Thursday. "I wanted to pose questions about family, breakups and reunions through a story about a mother who reunites with her son after a long time of being apart."
The film is about a North Korean defector who reconnects with her Korean-Chinese son after ...
- 10/4/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Perhaps it's no coincidence that the Busan International Film Festival chose Beautiful Days as its opening film for its much-anticipated 23rd edition. The South Korean film by local director Jero Yun follows the dramatic plight of a North Korean family that is disbanded then ultimately reunited.
For the past four years, Asia's largest and most prestigious film festival has experienced a similarly gripping plot arc. Conflict was introduced to the story in 2014, when the festival refused to cancel a screening of the politically sensitive documentary The Truth Shall Not Sink With Sewol against the wishes of then-Busan mayor and ...
For the past four years, Asia's largest and most prestigious film festival has experienced a similarly gripping plot arc. Conflict was introduced to the story in 2014, when the festival refused to cancel a screening of the politically sensitive documentary The Truth Shall Not Sink With Sewol against the wishes of then-Busan mayor and ...
- 10/2/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Perhaps it's no coincidence that the Busan International Film Festival chose Beautiful Days as its opening film for its much-anticipated 23rd edition. The South Korean film by local director Jero Yun follows the dramatic plight of a North Korean family that is disbanded then ultimately reunited.
For the past four years, Asia's largest and most prestigious film festival has experienced a similarly gripping plot arc. Conflict was introduced to the story in 2014, when the festival refused to cancel a screening of the politically sensitive documentary The Truth Shall Not Sink With Sewol against the wishes of then-Busan mayor and ...
For the past four years, Asia's largest and most prestigious film festival has experienced a similarly gripping plot arc. Conflict was introduced to the story in 2014, when the festival refused to cancel a screening of the politically sensitive documentary The Truth Shall Not Sink With Sewol against the wishes of then-Busan mayor and ...
- 10/2/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Busan International Film Festival held a press conference in Seoul on Tuesday to launch the program for next month's 23rd edition. Local indie drama Beautiful Days will kick off Biff on October 4 while Master Z: The Ip Man Legacy from Hong Kong has been set to conclude the festival, which will run until the 13th. Jero Yun's Beautiful Days is the comeback project for local star Lee Na-young, who last appeared in 2012's Howling alongside Song Kang-ho. Lee stars as a young mother who leaves her family and escapes North Korea. The Ip Man universe gets a new chapter with action choreographer master Yuen Woo-ping at the helm with Master Z: The Ip Man Legacy. Yuen also directed Ip Man 3 which introduced...
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- 9/5/2018
- Screen Anarchy
The festival will close with the world premiere of Yuen Woo-ping’s Master Z: The Ip Man Legacy.
South Korea’s Busan International Film Festival (Biff) will open with the world premiere of Jero Yun’s North Korean refugee drama Beautiful Days, starring Lee Na-young (Howling).
The festival will close with the world premiere of Yuen Woo-ping’s Master Z: The Ip Man Legacy, featuring action stars such as Zhang Jin, Michelle Yeoh, Tony Jaa and Dave Bautista.
Set to run October 4-13, the 23rd Biff will screen 323 films from 79 countries with 140 world and international premieres. All the New Currents...
South Korea’s Busan International Film Festival (Biff) will open with the world premiere of Jero Yun’s North Korean refugee drama Beautiful Days, starring Lee Na-young (Howling).
The festival will close with the world premiere of Yuen Woo-ping’s Master Z: The Ip Man Legacy, featuring action stars such as Zhang Jin, Michelle Yeoh, Tony Jaa and Dave Bautista.
Set to run October 4-13, the 23rd Biff will screen 323 films from 79 countries with 140 world and international premieres. All the New Currents...
- 9/4/2018
- by Jean Noh
- ScreenDaily
The festival will close with the world premiere of Yuen Woo-ping’s Master Z: The Ip Man Legacy.
South Korea’s Busan International Film Festival (Biff) will open with the world premiere of Jero Yun’s North Korean refugee drama Beautiful Days, starring Lee Na-young (Howling).
The festival will close with the world premiere of Yuen Woo-ping’s Master Z: The Ip Man Legacy, featuring action stars such as Zhang Jin, Michelle Yeoh, Tony Jaa and Dave Bautista.
Set to run October 4-13, the 23rd Biff will screen 323 films from 79 countries with 140 world and international premieres. All the New Currents...
South Korea’s Busan International Film Festival (Biff) will open with the world premiere of Jero Yun’s North Korean refugee drama Beautiful Days, starring Lee Na-young (Howling).
The festival will close with the world premiere of Yuen Woo-ping’s Master Z: The Ip Man Legacy, featuring action stars such as Zhang Jin, Michelle Yeoh, Tony Jaa and Dave Bautista.
Set to run October 4-13, the 23rd Biff will screen 323 films from 79 countries with 140 world and international premieres. All the New Currents...
- 9/4/2018
- by Jean Noh
- ScreenDaily
The 23rd annual Busan International Film Festival (Biff) will open with the South Korean film Beautiful Days, organizers announced on Tuesday. Asia’s largest and most prestigious film event will run in the South Korean city of Busan Oct. 4-13.
The opening film, directed by local helmer Jero Yun, features the plight of North Korean defectors and stars popular local actress Lee Na-young in the lead role of a woman who abandons her child for a better life outside the Stalinist state.
“The film depicts the disbanding of a family but also shows that is possible to bring it back ...
The opening film, directed by local helmer Jero Yun, features the plight of North Korean defectors and stars popular local actress Lee Na-young in the lead role of a woman who abandons her child for a better life outside the Stalinist state.
“The film depicts the disbanding of a family but also shows that is possible to bring it back ...
The 23rd annual Busan International Film Festival (Biff) will open with the South Korean film Beautiful Days, organizers announced on Tuesday. Asia’s largest and most prestigious film event will run in the South Korean city of Busan Oct. 4-13.
The opening film, directed by local helmer Jero Yun, features the plight of North Korean defectors and stars popular local actress Lee Na-young in the lead role of a woman who abandons her child for a better life outside the Stalinist state.
“The film depicts the disbanding of a family but also shows that is possible to bring it back ...
The opening film, directed by local helmer Jero Yun, features the plight of North Korean defectors and stars popular local actress Lee Na-young in the lead role of a woman who abandons her child for a better life outside the Stalinist state.
“The film depicts the disbanding of a family but also shows that is possible to bring it back ...
South Korean filmmaker Jero Yun’s “Beautiful Days” has been announced as the opening title of the Busan International Film Festival, Korea’s biggest film festival.
Starring Lee Na-young, “Beautiful Days” depicts the story of a woman who abandons her husband and child to escape North Korea for a better life abroad. Martial arts drama, “Master Z: The Ip Man Legacy,” by Hong Kong’s Yuen Woo-ping will close the festival.
“‘Beautiful Days’ sees the dissolution and restoration of a family, and also that its subject is very timely,” said festival director Jay Jeon.
For its twenty third edition, the Busan film festival has selected 323 films from 79 countries. That includes 115 world premieres and 25 international premieres.
The festival’s Gala Presentation section screens only three films this year. They are world premieres of Stanley Kwan’s “First Night Nerves” and Zhang Lu’s “Ode to the Goose,” and Tsukamoto Shinya’s “Killing.
Starring Lee Na-young, “Beautiful Days” depicts the story of a woman who abandons her husband and child to escape North Korea for a better life abroad. Martial arts drama, “Master Z: The Ip Man Legacy,” by Hong Kong’s Yuen Woo-ping will close the festival.
“‘Beautiful Days’ sees the dissolution and restoration of a family, and also that its subject is very timely,” said festival director Jay Jeon.
For its twenty third edition, the Busan film festival has selected 323 films from 79 countries. That includes 115 world premieres and 25 international premieres.
The festival’s Gala Presentation section screens only three films this year. They are world premieres of Stanley Kwan’s “First Night Nerves” and Zhang Lu’s “Ode to the Goose,” and Tsukamoto Shinya’s “Killing.
- 9/4/2018
- by Sonia Kil
- Variety Film + TV
Festival launches international competition to be judged by audiences.
The Goteborg Film Festival (Jan 26-Feb 5) has unveiled its 2018 of 399 films from 78 countries.
Source: Goteborg Film Festival
Amateurs
Gabriela Pilcher’s Amateurs will open the festival and also compete for the lucrative Dragon Award for best Nordic film (full list of competition titles below).
Pilcher, who previously directed festival hit Eat Sleep Die, presents the world premiere of her second feature, which is about a small town in Sweden that hopes to revive its economic activity by bringing in a German discount supermarket. The supermarket brand asks local teenagers to make films about their hometown, but the films don’t turn out as expected.
The festival’s new prize, the Dragon Award for best international film, will be fought over by 20 international films that will be voted on by the festival audience for a $6,000 (Sek 50,000) prize.
Films competing are: Disobedience by Sebastián Lelio The Death of Stalin by [link=nm...
The Goteborg Film Festival (Jan 26-Feb 5) has unveiled its 2018 of 399 films from 78 countries.
Source: Goteborg Film Festival
Amateurs
Gabriela Pilcher’s Amateurs will open the festival and also compete for the lucrative Dragon Award for best Nordic film (full list of competition titles below).
Pilcher, who previously directed festival hit Eat Sleep Die, presents the world premiere of her second feature, which is about a small town in Sweden that hopes to revive its economic activity by bringing in a German discount supermarket. The supermarket brand asks local teenagers to make films about their hometown, but the films don’t turn out as expected.
The festival’s new prize, the Dragon Award for best international film, will be fought over by 20 international films that will be voted on by the festival audience for a $6,000 (Sek 50,000) prize.
Films competing are: Disobedience by Sebastián Lelio The Death of Stalin by [link=nm...
- 1/9/2018
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Created in 1995, Fica is the oldest European Asian Film Festival and the sole European Film Festival to focus on entire Asian Continent from the Suez Canal to the Pacific Ocean, from the Indian Ocean to the Arctic Ocean. The 22nd edition gathered more than 30.000 audience members for the most important European focus on Asian independent and arthouse movies.
During our 23rd edition from February 07th-14th, the Festival features over 90 movies, many rarely-seen, others never-been-released before, enhancing our duty of discovering, defending, promoting and even remembering cinematographic masterpieces.
Following sections for this year’s Film Festival:
* Contemporary Asian Cinema:
Competition of unreleased feature films in France
Competition of unreleased documentaries in France
Premiere Screening
* Main Topic: Asian Country Sides
* Oishii! Japanese Culinary Arts Movies
* Masters of Sri Lanka Cinema
* Focus on Georgian Cinema
* Japanimation – Young Audience
Official Competition: Fiction Features
For the second year in a row, Viff of Asian...
During our 23rd edition from February 07th-14th, the Festival features over 90 movies, many rarely-seen, others never-been-released before, enhancing our duty of discovering, defending, promoting and even remembering cinematographic masterpieces.
Following sections for this year’s Film Festival:
* Contemporary Asian Cinema:
Competition of unreleased feature films in France
Competition of unreleased documentaries in France
Premiere Screening
* Main Topic: Asian Country Sides
* Oishii! Japanese Culinary Arts Movies
* Masters of Sri Lanka Cinema
* Focus on Georgian Cinema
* Japanimation – Young Audience
Official Competition: Fiction Features
For the second year in a row, Viff of Asian...
- 1/20/2017
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Top brass at the 12th Zurich Film Festival have given the Golden Eye for international feature film to The Happiest Day In The Life Of Olli Maki, the debut feature by Juho Kuosmanen.
The film, which previously won Cannes’ Un Certain Regard prize and is Finland’s Oscar submission, is based on the true story of a Finnish boxer who is more concerned with his new girlfriend than winning a championship bout.
The Golden Eye in Zurich comes with a $25,700 (25,000 Chf) cash prize.
Kuosmanen told Screen that awards are “always nice” and added that he was especially delighted by the audience reception.
“It feels like the film is communicating with different people with different backgrounds. The audience feedback has been very good [in Zurich] and for me it’s important that the film is understood and people are communicating with it.”
The jury, which comprised Lone Scherfig, David Farr, Sibel Kekilli and Graham Broadbent, also gave three...
The film, which previously won Cannes’ Un Certain Regard prize and is Finland’s Oscar submission, is based on the true story of a Finnish boxer who is more concerned with his new girlfriend than winning a championship bout.
The Golden Eye in Zurich comes with a $25,700 (25,000 Chf) cash prize.
Kuosmanen told Screen that awards are “always nice” and added that he was especially delighted by the audience reception.
“It feels like the film is communicating with different people with different backgrounds. The audience feedback has been very good [in Zurich] and for me it’s important that the film is understood and people are communicating with it.”
The jury, which comprised Lone Scherfig, David Farr, Sibel Kekilli and Graham Broadbent, also gave three...
- 10/2/2016
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Paris-based Zorba is developing a slate of Asia-set projects and will produce Jero Yun’s debut fiction feature, Ma Mère.
Paris-based and Shanghai production house Zorba has unveiled a slate of upcoming feature film co-productions, expanding its footprint into Asia and in particular China.
Among the upcoming projects is South Korean director Jero Yun’s Ma Mère, directly inspired by his feature-length documentary Mrs B., A North Korean Woman which premieres in Cannes Acid selection today (May 19). The filmmaker is also in Cannes with short film The Hitchhiker, which played in Directors’ Fortnight.
The documentary follows the real-life story of a North Korean woman who is human trafficked to China and in turn resorts to trafficking to raise money to get her sons out of the dictatorship which was once her home.
“Ma Mère continues Jero’s exploration of the human impact of Korea’s north-south divide. It revolves around a student living in Northern China who out...
Paris-based and Shanghai production house Zorba has unveiled a slate of upcoming feature film co-productions, expanding its footprint into Asia and in particular China.
Among the upcoming projects is South Korean director Jero Yun’s Ma Mère, directly inspired by his feature-length documentary Mrs B., A North Korean Woman which premieres in Cannes Acid selection today (May 19). The filmmaker is also in Cannes with short film The Hitchhiker, which played in Directors’ Fortnight.
The documentary follows the real-life story of a North Korean woman who is human trafficked to China and in turn resorts to trafficking to raise money to get her sons out of the dictatorship which was once her home.
“Ma Mère continues Jero’s exploration of the human impact of Korea’s north-south divide. It revolves around a student living in Northern China who out...
- 5/19/2016
- ScreenDaily
World premiere of Damien Manivel’s second feature, Le Parc, among the selection.
France’s Association for the Diffusion of Independent Cinema (Acid) has unveiled the line-up for its 23rd Cannes showcase, running May 12-21.
The initiative aimed at giving greater visibility to up and coming, indie filmmakers will screen nine works, including three first features and seven world premieres. Six of the features are yet to secure a distributor.
The showcase includes fiction and documentary features selected by filmmakers and members of Acid, many of whose films were programmed at Cannes by Acid in 2015.
Features include Le Parc by Damien Manivel, who previously won a Special Mention at the 2014 Locarno Film Festival for his debut feature A Young Poet, and Isola by Fabianny Deschamps, whose debut New Territories featured at Acid Cannes 2014,
Seven directors are making their debut this year - Ludovic and Zoran Boukherma, Marielle Gautier, Hugo P. Thomas, Wissam Charaf, [link...
France’s Association for the Diffusion of Independent Cinema (Acid) has unveiled the line-up for its 23rd Cannes showcase, running May 12-21.
The initiative aimed at giving greater visibility to up and coming, indie filmmakers will screen nine works, including three first features and seven world premieres. Six of the features are yet to secure a distributor.
The showcase includes fiction and documentary features selected by filmmakers and members of Acid, many of whose films were programmed at Cannes by Acid in 2015.
Features include Le Parc by Damien Manivel, who previously won a Special Mention at the 2014 Locarno Film Festival for his debut feature A Young Poet, and Isola by Fabianny Deschamps, whose debut New Territories featured at Acid Cannes 2014,
Seven directors are making their debut this year - Ludovic and Zoran Boukherma, Marielle Gautier, Hugo P. Thomas, Wissam Charaf, [link...
- 4/19/2016
- ScreenDaily
Although there are a few films here and there left to be added to the Cannes 2016 line-up, the slate has now been mostly set thanks to the arrive of the Directors’ Fortnight side-bar line-up. Notable selections includes Paul Schrader‘s drama Dog Eat Dog, starring Nicolas Cage and Willem Dafoe, as well as Laura Poitras‘ Citizenfour follow-up Risk, which looks at Julian Assange.
There’s also Pablo Larraín‘s Gael Garcia Bernal-led biopic Neruda, Alejandro Jodorowsky‘s Endless Poetry, the latest film from Gangs of Wasseypur director Anurag Kashyap, as well as new films from Marco Bellocchio and Joachim Lafosse. Also of interest is War Witch director Kim Nguyen‘s Two Lovers and a Bear, a Canadian drama which teams Tatiana Maslany and Dane DeHaan. Check out the line-up below.
Feature Films
Dog Eat Dog, dir: Paul Schrader – Closing Night Film
Divines, dir: Houda Benyamina*
L’Economie Du Couple,...
There’s also Pablo Larraín‘s Gael Garcia Bernal-led biopic Neruda, Alejandro Jodorowsky‘s Endless Poetry, the latest film from Gangs of Wasseypur director Anurag Kashyap, as well as new films from Marco Bellocchio and Joachim Lafosse. Also of interest is War Witch director Kim Nguyen‘s Two Lovers and a Bear, a Canadian drama which teams Tatiana Maslany and Dane DeHaan. Check out the line-up below.
Feature Films
Dog Eat Dog, dir: Paul Schrader – Closing Night Film
Divines, dir: Houda Benyamina*
L’Economie Du Couple,...
- 4/19/2016
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
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