2011 (16th) Busan International Film Festival

Profile

• Film Festival: Busan International Film Festival
• Edition: 16th
• Period: October 6-14, 2011
• Location: Busan, South Korea

Notes

1. 16th Busan International Film Festival is the first edition under the name change from "Pusan International Film Festival" to "Busan International Film Festival".
2. Jury members for the New Currents section are: Chinese director Yonfan (Jury Head), Japanese actor Joe Odagiri, festival director ( Locarno International Film Festival) Olivier Pere, Chinese actress Wenli Jiang, Korean movie producer Oh Jung-Wan.

Awards

• New Currents Award - "Mourning" - Morteza Farshbaf (India) / Nino - Loy Arcenas (Philippines)
• Flash Forward Award - "LA-BAS - A Criminal Education" - Guido Lombardi (Italy)
• BIFF Mecenat Award - "Sea of Butterfly" Park Bae-Il (South Korea) / "Shoji & Takao" Yoko Ide (Japan)
• Sonje Award Asia - "Thug Beram" - Venkat Amudhan (India)
  • Special Mention - "DIY Encouragement" - Kohei Yoshino (Japan)
• Sonje Award Korea - "See You Tomorrow" - Lee Woo-Jung (South Korea)
  • Special mention - "Bugging Heaven; Listen to Her" - O Hyun-Ju (South Korea)
• FIPRESCI Award - "Mourning" - Morteza Farshbaf (India)
• NETPAC Award - "The King of the Pigs" - Yeun Sang-Ho (South Korea)
• DGK Award - Director - Yeun Sang-Ho ("The King of the Pigs") (South Korea)
• DGK Award - Actor - Ha Hyun-Kwan - ("Beautiful Miss Jin") (South Korea)
• DGK Award - Actress - Hwang Jung-Min ("Jesus Hospital") (South Korea) / Han Song-Hee ("Jesus Hospital") (South Korea)
• Movie Collage Award - "The King of the Pigs" - Yeun Sang-Ho (South Korea)
• KNN Award - "Watch Indian Circus" - Mangesh Hadawale (India)
• Citizen Reviewers' Award - "Jesus Hospital" - Lee Sang-Cheol, Shin A-Ga (South Korea)/"A Fish" - Park Hong-Min (South Korea) / "Romance Joe" - Lee Kwang-Kuk (South Korea)
• Busan Cinephile Award - "The Twin" - Gustav Danielsson (Sweden)
• Asian Filmmaker of the Year - Hark Tsui

Press Conferences

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• "Always" - Song Il-Gon (South Korea)
• "Wu Xia" - Peter Chan (Hong Kong/China)
• "My Way" - Kang Je-Gyu (South Korea)
• "A Reason To Live" - Lee Jeong-Hyang (South Korea)

Guest Visits

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• "Barbie" with director Lee Sang-Woo, actresses Kim Sae-Ron, Kim A-Ron & actor Lee Chun-Hee.
• "The Front Line" with director Jang Hun & actors Ryu Seung-Soo, Ko Soo, Lee Je-Hoon, Ko Chang-Seok, Lee Da-Wit)
• "Hard Romanticker" w. director Su-Yeon Gu & actor Shota Matsuda.
• "The King of the Pigs" with director Yeun Sang-Ho, actor Yang Ik-Jun & actress Kim Kkobbi.
• "Life Back Then" with director Takahisa Zeze and actor Masaki Okada.
• "Mitsuko Delivers" with director Yuya Ishii, actress Riisa Naka & actor Ryo Ishibashi.
• "My Back Page" with director Nobuhiro Yamashita and actor Satoshi Tsumabuki.
• "Punch" with director Lee Han.
• "Poongsan" with director Juhn Jai-Hong and actor Kim Jong-Soo.
• "Sunny" with director Kang Hyung-Chul & actresses Kang So-Ra, Jin Hee-Kyung, Yoo Ho-Jeong, Park Jin-Joo, Min Hyo-Rin, Kim Min-Young.

Program (East Asian films listed only)

Opening

• "Always" - Song Il-Gon (South Korea) *World Premiere

Closing

• "Chronicle Of My Mother" - Masato Harada (Japan)

New Currents (*All Films Listed)

• "Choked" - Kim Joong-Hyun (South Korea) *World Premiere
• "Damn Life" - Hitoshi Kitagawa (Japan) *International Premiere
• "Here or There" - Siu Pham (Vietnam/Switzerland) *World Premiere
• "I Carried You Home" - Tongpong Chantarangkul (Thailand/Singapore) *World Premiere
• "Lost in the Mountain" - Zipeng Gao (China) *World Premiere
• "The Mirror Never Lies" - Kamila Andini (Indonesia) *Asian Premiere
• "Nino" - Loy Arcenas (Philippines) *International Premiere
• "The Passion of a Man Called Choe Che-u" - Stanley Park (South Korea) *World Premiere
• "Return to Burma" - Midi Z (Taiwan/Myanmar) *World Premiere
• "Starry Starry Night" - Tom Lin (Taiwan/China) *World Premiere
• "August Drizzle" - Aruna Jayawardana (Sri Lanka) *World Premiere
• "Mourning" - Morteza Farshbaf (Iran) *World Premiere
• "Watch Indian Circus" - Mangesh Hadawale (India) *World Premiere

A Window on Asian Cinema

• "11 Flowers" - Xiaoshuai Wang (China)
• "Amok" - Lawrence Fajardo (Philippines) *International Premiere
• "The Beetle Soldiers" - Ari Shiasale (Indonesia) *International Premiere
• "Celestial Kingdom" - Chao Wang (China) *World Premiere
• "Eternity" - M.L. Pundhevanop Dhewakul (Thailand) *International Premiere
• "Fable of the Fish" - Adolfo Alix Jr. (Philippines)
• "Guilty of Romance" - Sion Sono (Japan)
• "Hanaan" - Ruslan Pak (South Korea/Uzbekistan)
• "Hanezu" - Naomi Kawase (Japan)
• "Hankyu Railways - A 15-Minute Miracle" ("Hankyu Train") - Yoshishige Miyake (Japan) *International Premiere
• "Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai" - Takashi Miike (Japan)
• "Here There" - Sheng Lu (China)
• "Himizu" - Sion Sono (Japan)
• "Inseparable" - Dayyan Eng (China) *World Premiere
• "I Wish" - Hirokazu Koreeda (Japan)
• "Jakarta Twilight" - Salman Aristo (Indonesia) *International Premiere
• "Kotoko" - Shinya Tsukamoto (Japan)
• "Jump Ashin!" - Yu-Hsien Lin (Taiwan) *International Premiere
• "Life Back Then" - Takahisa Zeze (Japan)
• "Lost in Paradise" - Ngoc Dang Vu (Vietnam)
• "Lovely Man" - Teddy Soeriaatmadja (Indonesia) *World Premiere
• "Mask" - Laurice Guillen (Philippines) *International Premiere
• "Mitsuko Delivers" - Yuya Ishii (Japan)
• "Mr. Tree" - Jie Han (China)
• "My Back Page" - Nobuhiro Yamashita (Japan)
• "Nono" - Rommel Tolentino (Philippines) *International Premiere
• "P-047" - Kongdej Jaturanrasamee (Thailand)
• "Scabbard Samurai" - Hitoshi Matsumoto (Japan)
• "Seediq Bale" - Te-Sheng Wei (Taiwan)
• "The Sword Identity" - Haofeng Xu (China)
• "Tokyo Playboy Club' - Yosuke Okuda (Japan) *World Premiere
• "Tominaga Park" - Ryu Morioka (Japan) *International Premiere
• "The Woman in the Septic Tank" - Marlon Rivera (Philippines)

Gala Presentation

• "A Reason To Live" - Lee Jeong-Hyang (South Korea) *World Premiere
• "CUT" - Amir Naderi (Japan)
• "The Host 3D" - Bong Joon-Ho (South Korea) *3D Version
• "Life Without Principle" - Johnnie To (Hong Kong)
• "Unbowed" - Chung Ji-Young (South Korea) *World Premiere
• "Wu Xia" - Peter Chan (Hong Kong/China)

Korean Cinema Today: Panorama

• "Amen" - Kim Ki-Duk (South Korea)
• "Come Rain Come Shine" - Lee Yoon-Ki (South Korea)
• "The Day He Arrives" - Hong Sang-Soo (South Korea)
• "From Seoul to Varanasi" - Jeon Kyu-Hwan (South Korea) *World Premiere
• "The Front Line" - Jang Hun (South Korea)
• "GLove" - Kang Woo-Suk (South Korea)
• "Hanji" - Im Kwon-Taek (South Korea)
• "Hindsight" - Lee Hyun-Seung (South Korea)
• "KISSES" - various (South Korea) *World Premiere
• "Pink" - Jeon Soo-Il (South Korea) *World Premiere
• "Poongsan" - Jun Jae-Hong (South Korea)
• "Red Vacance Black Wedding" - Park Cheol-Su, Kim Tae-Sik (South Korea) *World Premiere
• "Ryang-kang-do: Merry Christmas, North!" - Kim Sung-Hoon, Jung Sung-San (South Korea) *World Premiere
• "Sunny" (Director's Cut) - Kang Hyeong-Cheol (South Korea)
• "War of the Arrows" - Kim Han-Min (South Korea)

Korean Cinema Today: Vision

• "A Fish" - Park Hong-Min (South Korea) *World Premiere
• "Barbie" - Lee Sang-Woo (South Korea) *World Premiere
• "Beautiful Miss Jin" - Jang Hee-Chul (South Korea) *World Premiere
• "Black Dove" - Roh Gyeong-Tae (South Korea) *World Premiere
• "Dangerously Excited" - Koo Ja-Hong (South Korea) *World Premiere
• "Jesus Hospital" - Lee Sang-Cheol, Shin A-Ga (South Korea) *World Premiere
• "The King of the Pigs" - Yeun Sang-Ho (South Korea) *World Premiere
• "The Peach Tree" - Ku Hye-Sun (South Korea) *World Premiere
• "Persimmon" - Choo Sang-Rok (South Korea) *World Premiere
• "Romance Joe" - Lee Kwang-Kuk (South Korea) *World Premiere

Open Cinema

• "Leafie, a Hen Into the Wild" - Oh Sung-Yoon (South Korea)
• "Punch" - Lee Han (South Korea) *World Premiere
• "Star Watching Dog" - Tomoyuki Takimoto (Japan) *International Premiere

Midnight Passion

• "Hard Romanticker" - Su-Yeon Gu (Japan) *World Premiere
• "Laddaland" - Sopon Sukdapisit (Thailand) *International Premiere
• "Smuggler" - Katsuhito Ishii (Japan)
• "The Kick" - Prachya Pinkaew (Thailand/South Korea) *World Premiere
• "The Raid" - Gareth Evans (Indonesia)
• "The Sorcerer and the White Snake" - Siu-Tung Ching (China)
• "Vampire" - Shunji Iwai (USA/Canada) *Korean Premiere