Best film festival of Asia ,The 17th Busan International Film Festival

         The 17th Busan International Film Festival
                                                     will be held from October 4th to 13th

a)  Period : Oct. 4 (THU) – 13 (SAT), 2012

b) Screening Venue
     * 37 screens at 7 theaters
             - Centum City: Busan Cinema Center, CGV, Lotte Cinema, Community Media Center,
                     Sohyang Musical Center
            - Haeundae: Megabox Haeundae
            - Nampo-dong: Megabox Busan Theater
c) Screening
     * Total of 304 films from 75 countries
     * 132 World & International Premieres
              - 93 World Premieres (66 Feature Films, 27 Short Films)
              - 39 International Premieres (34 Feature Films, 5 Short Films)
              - All New Currents and Flash Forward screenings are World & International premieres
     * 30 APM projects
    * Asian Cinema Fund (ACF)
              - 8 Script Development Fund projects, 6 Post-production Fund projects
              - 17 AND Fund projects

Korean Cinema Retrospective
      SHIN Young-kySpecial Programs in Focus


Special Programs in Focus
     The Eternal Travelers for Freedom: Sergei PARAJANOV and Mikhail VARTANOV      - afghanistan National Film Archive: The Rise from the Ashes
     - Poland in Close-up: The Great Polish Masters
     - Arturo RIPSTEIN : Four Stories of Captive Minds
     - Cinema Archaeology
     - Special Screening

Handprinting / Master Class

* Handprinting  
           Each year the Busan International Film Festival selects distinguished film professionals for its 
          handprinting ceremony to honor their outstanding contributions to world cinema.

         - SHIN Young-kyun / Actor / South Korea
         - WAKAMATSU Koji / Director / Japan
         - Arturo RIPSTEIN / Director / Mexico
         - Agnieszka HOLLAND / Director / Poland

 * Master Class
         Note to the world-renowned directors' life and film philosophy
         - WAKAMATSU Koji / Director / Japan
         - ISOMI Toshihiro / Art Director / Japan
         - Arturo RIPSTEIN / Director / Mexico

Cinema Talk Beyond Cinema

     Cinema Talk Beyond Cinema will provide a back-story for film history with the support of visual aids to 

      enhance audience discussions.
     Tony RAYNS : The Secret History of Korean Cinema in the 1990s
     David GILMOUR: The Film Club: A Memoir
    JEONG Jae Seung : Cinema, Inspiration for an Scientist

Korean Classical Cinema Screening

BIFF Square in Nampo-dong will bring back meaningful Korean Cinema classics. Audiences have the opportunity to watch the oldest existing Korean film, Turning Point of the Youngsters (Cheongchun-ui Sibjalo), the first Korean musical film Hyperbolae of Youth (Cheong Chun Ssang Gog Seon) and Four films showing Busan in the 50s to 70s will be screened as well.

Screening Service for Kids and Senior Citizens

Six films for kids from 7-year-olds to elementary school students as well as special services for seniors (over 60-year-old) are programmed to provide enjoyable festival experience for all audiences in different age groups. Asian Film Market


Asian Film Market
Major Asian Sales Companies' Participation Most Asian major sales companies registered for the Asian Film Market: Toho, Toei, TBS, NTV, GAGA and Kadokawa from Japan, and Distribution Workshop, Golden Network Asia, Edko, Emperor from Hong Kong. Also, North American companies like Myriad Pictures, Cinema Management Group, and Cinemavault will hold their sales booth.Publication Contents Pitching Event - Book To Film

In order to link the publication and film industries, the Asian Film Market will introduce a Publication Contents Pitching Event. It will help diversify cinema content and help revitalize the market. KOFIC Industry Forum

Korean Film Council (KOFIC) will host the KOFIC Industry Forum under the theme of "International Co-production" during the Asian Film Market

Asian Cinema Fund

AND Publishes Asian Documentary Today
AND Partners with Al Jazeera English for a Workshop Project
AND Partners with Cinelan
World Documentary Exchange (WDE) Broadens Its Network

Busan Cinema Forum

BCF sails again for the critical understanding of the new world cinema. The theme of this year's edition is "Politics of Film Restoration and Preservation in the Digital Era." BCF will offer participants a grand networking platform by facilitating an in-depth discussion on cinema aesthetics and the film industry.

Asian Film Academy 2012

The Future of Asian Cinema Gathers at Busan
Asian Film Academy is a 18-day educational program, where the young film professionals from all around the world gather and participate. The fellows will take parts in various programs including two-short film production program and master classes with the invited masters and professionals from each field.
Launching of Asian Actors Academy
As a newly created sector of the Asian Film Academy (AFA), the Asian Actors Academy (AAA) is a project dedicated to producing global Asian actors through various acting lessons and training.

Sergei PARAJANOV Special Exhibition

Sergei Parajanov's film posters, his art-works and photos are showcased. This rare opportunity was assisted by the Parajanov museum in Armenia.. Busan Office 3rd Floor, BIFF HILL, Busan Cinema Center, 1467 Woo-Dong, Haeundae-Gu, Busan 612-020, Korea Tel. 82-1688-3010 Fax. 82-51-709-2299

The 17th Busan International Film Festival

The 17th Busan International Film Festival

The 17th Busan International Film Festival, the largest film festival in Asia, will be held from October 4th to October 13th, 2012.

It is expected that more than 10,000 guests from 60 counties will participate at this film festival, with film festival-related films being screened at the Busan Cinema Center and many theaters in the Haeundae area. BIFF has grown substantially in recent years, and it is now recognized as the driving force behind the development of Korea’s film industry, thus enhancing the international image of Busan.

•Opening Ceremony of the 17th Busan International Film Festival
•· Date: October 4th, 2012 (Thursday), 19:00 (scheduled)

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The 17th Busan International Film Festival announces its Special Program in Focus, Poland in Close-up: The Great Polish Masters. Poland in Close-up: The Great Polish Masters will explore the past and the present of the Polish cinema that is rich with more than 100 years of history. Important films of ten master Polish filmmakers who have established their importance in broader European cinema history will be screened in Busan.

Poland in Close-up: The Great Polish Masters was made possible through cooperation with the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Polish Film Institute, the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Korea, and the Polish National Film Archive.

Poland in Transition and its Great Filmmakers
The 20th Century is viewed as a period of war, revolution, and transition. It also coincides with the period when film emerged as a new art form. Film flourished among the youth living in Poland after the turmoil of World War II. The Polish school of filmmaking included Andrzej Wajda, Andrzej Munk, Jerzy Kawalerowicz, and Wojciech Jerzy Has who portrayed the downfall of Poland through social satires.

The next generation of filmmakers left for Western Europe, away from the oppression of Russia and the censorship of the Polish government, to seek freedom of expression. Roman Pola?ski, Jerzy Skolimowski, Agnieszka Holland and other Polish directors from this period continued the Polish cinema legacy abroad. The significance and brilliance of their films were recognized by the international film realm. Compared to the previous generation, their films dealt with more mainstream subject matters.
Meanwhile, Krzysztof Zanussi, Krzysztof Kie?lowski, Dorota K?dzierzawska remained in Poland to explore political, historical, and moralistic subject matters in their films.
Poland in Close-up: The Great Polish Masters presents the works of ten Polish filmmakers who represent




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부산국제영화제는 10월 4일부터 13일까지 영화의전당을 비롯하여 부산시내 7개극장 37개 상영관에서 개최되며, 상영작품은 75개국 304편이 상영된다.

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이용관 영화집행위원장은 " 올해는 보다 많은 아시아 국가에서 다양한 주제의 작품을 초청하는데 노력했다고 한다.


그리고 한국과 멕시코 수교 50주년을 기념해 중남미를 대표하는 멕시코 거장 아르투로 립스테인 감독의 특별전도 마련된다고 했다.


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