2008 (13th) Pusan International Film Festival
From AsianWiki
Contents |
Profile
- Film Festival: 13th Pusan International Film Festival
- Period: October 2nd-10th, 2008
- Location: Busan, South Korea
- Screenings: 315 films
- Attendance: 198,818
- Premieres: 85 World Premieres / 48 International Premieres / 95 Asian Premieres
Awards
- New Currents Award: Land of Scarecrows / Naked of Defenses
Special Mentions: Members of the Funeral / Er Dong
- Sonje Award (Shot Film Competition): Andong / Girl
- PIFF Mecenat Award (Documentary Competition): Mental / Old Partner
- Fipresci Award: Jalainur
- NETPAC Award: Members of the Funeral / Treeless Mountain
- KNN Movie Award (Audience Award): 100
Jury Members
|
New Currents
|
Wide Angle
|
Film Listings
Opening/Closing
| Title | Director | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Gift to Stalin | Rustem Abdrashev | Russia | World Premiere |
| I Am Happy | Jong-chan Yun | South Korea | World Premiere |
Gala Presentation
| Title | Director | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Make Yourself at Home | Soopum Sohn | USA | World Premiere |
| Dada's Dance | Yuan Zhang | China | World Premiere |
| Ashes of Time Redux | Kar Wai Wong | Hong Kong |
A Window on Asian Cinema
| Title | Director | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Moon at the Bottom of the Well | Vinh Son Nguyen | Vietnam | World Premiere |
| Plastic City | Yu Lik-wai | Brazil/Hong Kong | |
| Perfect Life | Xiaobai Tang | Hong Kong/China | |
| Miao Miao | Hsiao-tse Cheng | Taiwan/Hong Kong | World Premiere |
| Jermal | Ravi L. Bharwani | Indonesia | World Premiere |
| Firaaq | Nandita Das | India | |
| Two Legged Horse | Samira Makhmalbaf | Iran | |
| Together with My Father | Danyar Salamat | Kazakstan | |
| Winds of September | Tom Lin | Taiwan | |
| Twilight Dancing | Tian Gao, Joshua Tong | China | World Premiere |
| Trivial Matters | Ho-Cheung Pang | Hong Kong | |
| This Longing | Azharr Rudin | Malaysia | World Premiere |
| The Yurt | Ayub Shakhobitdinov | Uzbekistan | |
| The Song of Sparrows | Majid Majidi | Iran | |
| The Shaft | Chi Zhang | China | |
| The Convert | Yasmin Ahmad | Malaysia | |
| TAHAAN - A Boy with a Grenade | Santosh Sivan | India | |
| Still Walking | Hirokazu Koreeda | Japan | |
| Sparrow | Johnnie To | Hong Kong | |
| Soul of a Demon | Tso-chi Chang | Taiwan | |
| Songs from the Southern Seas | Marat Sarulu | Kazakhstan | International Premiere |
| Snakes and Earrings | Yukio Ninagawa | Japan | |
| Service | Brillante Mendoza | France/Philippines | |
| Sell Out! | Yeo Joon Han | Malaysia | |
| River People | Jianjun He | China | World Premiere |
| Ramchand Pakistani | Mehreen Jabbar | Pakistan | |
| Pesantren - 3 Wishes, 3 Loves | Nurman Hakim | Indonesia | World Premiere |
| Parking | Mong-Hong Chung | Taiwan | |
| Orz Boyz | Ya-che Yang | Taiwan | |
| Native Dancer | Guka Omarova | Kazakhstan, Russia | |
| My Magic | Eric Khoo | Singapore | |
| My Darling of the Mountains | Katsuhito Ishii | Japan | |
| Lonely Tunes of Tehran | Saman Salour | Iran | |
| Kanchivaram | Soman Nair Priyadarsan | India | |
| Jay | Francis Xavier Pasion | Philippines | |
| Gou Gou, The Cat | Isshin Inudo | Japan | |
| Flowers of the Sky | Prasanna Vithanage | Sri Lanka, India | |
| Fiksi | Mouly Surya | Indonesia | International Premiere |
| Feast of Villains | Jianlin Pan | China | World Premiere |
| Departures | Yojiro Takita | Japan | |
| Confessional | Ruel Dahis Antipuesto, Jerrold Tarog | Philippines | |
| Child by Children | Koji Hagiuda | Japan | International Premiere |
| Captain Abu Raed | Amin Matalqa | Jordan | |
| Cape No. 7 | Te-Sheng Wei | Taiwan | |
| Be Calm and Count to Seven | Ramtin Lavati | Iran | |
| Baby Angelo | Joel Ruiz | Philippines | International Premiere |
| Among the Clouds | Rouhollah Hejazi | Iran | |
| All Around Us | Ryosuke Hashiguchi | Japan | |
| Adela | Adolfo Alix Jr. | Philippines | |
| 12 Lotus | Royston Tan | Singapore |
New Currents
| Title | Director | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Members of the Funeral | Jin-yeong Kim | South Korea | World Premiere |
| A Moment in June | O. Nathapon | Thailand | World Premiere |
| Turmoil | Kanymbek Kassymbekov, Sabit Kurmanbekov | Kazakhstan | International Premiere |
| The Pot | Tae-gon Kim | South Korea | World Premiere |
| Routine Holiday | Hongqi Li | China | World Premiere |
| Ocean of an Old Man | Rajesh Shera | India | World Premiere |
| Naked of Defenses | Masahide Ichii | Japan | International Premiere |
| Land of Scarecrows | Gyeong-tae Roh | South Korea | World Premiere |
| Jalainur | Ye Zhao | China | World Premiere |
| Er Dong | Jin Yang | China | World Premiere |
| Empty Chair | Saman Estereki | Iran | World Premiere |
| Blind Pig Who Wants to Fly | Edwin | Indonesia | World Premiere |
| A Light in the Fog | Panahbarkhoda Rezaee | Iran | World Premiere |
| 100 | Chris Martinez | Philippines | International Premiere |
Korean Cinema Today - Panorama
| Title | Director | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| A Man who was Superman | Yoon-Chul Jeong | South Korea | |
| Himalaya, Where the Wind Dwells | Soo-il Jeon | South Korea | World Premiere |
| Sisters on the Road | Ji-yeong Bu | South Korea | World Premiere |
| Oishii Man | Jeong-jung Kim | South Korea | World Premiere |
| The Good, The Bad, The Weird | Ji-woon Kim | South Korea | |
| The Chaser | Hong-jin Na | South Korea | |
| Sunny | Jun-ik Lee | South Korea | |
| Public Enemy Returns | Woo-Suk Kang | South Korea | |
| Night and Day | Sang-soo Hong | South Korea | |
| Forever the Moment | Soonrye Yim | South Korea | |
| Crush and Blush | Kyoung-mi Lee | South Korea | World Premiere |
| Heartbreak Library | Jeong-kwon Kim | South Korea | World Premiere |
Korean Cinema Today - Vision
| Title | Director | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Evil Spirit ; VIY | Jin-yeong Park | South Korea | World Premiere |
| Treeless Mountain | So Yong Kim | South Korea | |
| Let the Blue River Run | Mi-ja Kim | South Korea | World Premiere |
| Breathless | Ik-jun Yang | South Korea | World Premiere |
| The Room Nearby | Tae-jeong Goh | South Korea | World Premiere |
| The Pit and the Pendulum | Yeong-seong Son | South Korea | World Premiere |
| How to Live on Earth | Seul-gi Ahn | South Korea | World Premiere |
| Exhausted | Kim Gok | South Korea | World Premiere |
