The 22nd Busan International Film Festival was held from October 12 to October 21, 2017 at the Busan Cinema Center and hosted by Jang Dong-gun and Im Yoon-ah. A total of 300 films from 75 countries were screened at the festival, including 100 world premieres and 29 international premieres.
On October 15, 2017, President Moon made a surprise visit to the festival, promising noninterference and support for the festival. He also hopes BIFF will restore to its former glory and into a more prominent international film festival.
A new Kim Jiseok Award was setup to commemorate the late Kim Jiseok, the Deputy Director and Program Director of Busan International Film Festival, who died in May 2017. Kim, also a founding member of the Busan International Film Festival, had since 1996, devoted himself to developing the Busan International Film Festival into a world-renowned film festival in Asia.
Program
Opening
Gala Presentation
A Window on Asian Cinema
New Currents
- After My Death - Kim Ui-seok (Korea)
- Ajji - Devashish Makhija (India)
- Ashwatthama - Pushpendra SINGH (India/Korea)
- Blockage - Mohsen GHARAEI (Iran)
- End of Summer - Zhou Quan (China)
- How to Breathe Underwater - KO Hyunseok (Korea)
- Last Child - SHIN Dongseok (Korea)
- The Last Verse - TSENG Ying-Ting (Taiwan)
- One Night on the Wharf - HAN Dong (China)
- Somewhere Beyond the Mist - CHEUNG King Wai (Hong Kong, China)
Korean Cinema Today - Panorama
Korean Cinema Today - Vision
- Black Summer - LEE Weonyoung (Korea)
- Counting the Stars at Night - CHOI Yongseok (Korea)
- February - KIM Joonghyun (Korea)
- A Haunting Hitchhike - JEONG Heejae (Korea)
- Hit the Night - JEONG Gayoung (Korea)
- Home - KIM Jongwoo (Korea)
- Microhabitat - JEON Gowoon (Korea)
- Mothers - Lee Dong-eun (Korea)
- Park Hwa-young - LEE Hwan (Korea)
- Possible Faces - LEE Kanghyun (Korea)
- A Tiger in Winter - Lee Kwang-kuk (Korea)
Korean Cinema Retrospective
World Cinema
Flash Forward
Wide Angle
Korean Short Film Competition
- Away from Home - LEE Hyebeen, IM Soojin (Korea)
- Beloved - LIM Seungmi (Korea)
- Bright Future - HUR Jungjae (Korea)
- Freeway - HWANG Seulgi (Korea)
- A Friend Holding Crutches - KIM Soyeon (Korea)
- Goner - KIM Hanra (Korea)
- A Hand-written Poster - KWAK Eunmi (Korea)
- The History of Hormone - PARK Jonghyun (Korea)
- Illegal Parking - LEE Inhyuk (Korea)
- Love Jo. Right Now. - JEONG Gayoung (Korea)
- My Father in a Suitcase - KIMO Jisook (Korea)
- Ordinary People - KIM Moonkyeong (Korea)
- Playground - CHOI Cho-ah (Korea)
- The Virgin Flight - HAN Seungju (Korea)
- Yuri in Summer - KIM Seohyeon (Korea)
Asian Short Film Competition
- Cemetery of Courtesy - CHONG Keat Aun (Malaysia)
- Chronicle of a Durian - YANG Xiao (China)
- A Curious Girl - Rajesh Prasad KHATRI (Nepal)
- The Day I Am Gonna Come - HONG Cheng (China)
- Madonna - Sinung WINAHYOKO (Indonesia)
- Myth - HAO Fang-Wei (Taiwan)
- NAGISA - KOGAHARA Takeshi (Japan)
- The Road - Arash KHAYATAN (Iran)
- Suerte - Carlo FAJARDA (Philippines)
- Two Brothers - Raghbir SINGH (India)
Short Film Showcase
- 667 - LIAO Jiekai, HE Shuming, Boo Junfeng, CHONG Jun, Kirsten TAN, Eva TANG (Singapore)
- Braguino - Clément COGITORE (France)
- Death of the Sound Man - Sorayos PRAPAPAN (Thailand/Myanmar)
- Gaze - Farnoosh SAMADI (Iran/Italy)
- A Gentle Night - QIU Yang (China)
- Jodilerks Dela Cruz, Employee of the Month - Carlo Francisco MANATAD (Philippines/Singapore)
- Tshweesh - Feyrouz SERHAL (Lebanon/Germany/Spain/Qatar)
- Where Has Time Gone? - Walter Salles, Alexey FEDORCHENKO, Madhur Bhandarkar, Jia Zhangke, Jahmil X.T. QUBEKA (China/Brazil/Russia/India/South Africa)
Documentary Competition
- Ha Dong Chae Bok: A Song of Two Humans - NAM Seungsuk (Korea)
- I've Got a Little Problem - ZHANG Ximing (China)
- I Want to Go Home - Wesley Leon AROOZOO (Singapore/Japan)
- In the Claws of a Century Wanting - Jewel MARANAN (Philippines/Germany/Qatar)
- Letters - YUN Jéro, Marte VOLD (Korea/Norway)
- REBORN - IM Heungsoon (Korea)
- Sennan Asbestos Disaster - Kazuo Hara (Japan)
- Soseongri - PARK Baeil (Korea)
- Tarling is Darling - Ismail Fahmi LUBIS (Indonesia)
- The Whispering Trees - HEO Chulnyung (Korea)
Documentary Showcase
- After Chosun - MUN Jeonghyun (Korea)
- Behrouz: A Legend on Screen - Sepehr MIKAILIAN (United States)
- Blood Amber - LEE Yong Chao (Taiwan/Myanmar)
- A Cambodian Spring - Chris Kelly (Cambodia/United Kingdom/Ireland/Canada)
- Courtesy to the Nation - GWON Gyungwon (Korea)
- Ecology in Concrete - Jeong Jae-eun (Korea)
- ' - Frederick Wiseman (United States)
- A Feeling Greater Than Love - Mary JIRMANUS SABA (Lebanon)
- A Free Man - Andreas HARTMANN (Germany/Japan)
- Goodbye My Love North Korea - KIM Soyoung (Korea)
- Hugo - (Poland)
- I've Got the Blues - Angie CHEN (Hong Kong, China/France)
- A Little Wisdom - KANG Yuqi (Nepal/Canada/China)
- Makala - Emmanuel GRAS (France)
- Mountain - Jennifer Peedom (Australia)
- Mrs. Fang - Wang Bing (Hong Kong, China/France/Germany)
- Vibration: THE YELLOW MONKEY - MATSUNAGA Daishi (Japan)
- The Work - Gethin ALDOUS, Jairus MCLEARY (United States)
Cinekids
Animation Showcase
Open Cinema
Special Programs in Focus
Suzuki Seijun: A Drifter across the Lines List
Sakha Cinema: World of Magical Nature and Myth
- 24 Snow - Mikhail BARYNIN (Russia)
- Deliverance - Gennady BAGYNANOV (Russia)
- Fisherman - Vyacheslav SEMYONOV (Russia)
- His Daughter - Tatyana EVERSTOVA (Russia)
- Keskil 2: Rematch - Dmitry SHADRIN, Alexey EGOROV, Roman DOROFEYEV (Russia)
- Mappa - Alexey ROMANOV (Russia)
- Outlaw - Stepan BURNASHOV (Russia)
- Premonition - Mikhail LUKACHEVSKY, Prokopy NOGOVITSYN (Russia)
- Summer Homestead - Anatoly Vasiliev (Russia)
- The Marvelous Time - Nikita ARZHAKOV (Russia)
- While There Is Wind - Sergey POTAPOV (Russia)
- Wooden Horse - Prokopy NOGOVITSYN (Russia)
Midnight Passion
Closing
Awards
- New Currents Award
- After My Death - Kim Ui-seok (Korea)
- Blockage - Mohsen GHARAEI (Iran)
- BIFF Mecenat Award
- Soseongri - PARK Baeil (Korea)
- Sennan Asbestos Disaster - Kazuo Hara (Japan)
- Sonje Award
- A Hand-written Poster - KWAK Eunmi (Korea)
- Madonna - Sinung WINAHYOKO (Indonesia)
- Actor & Actress of the Year Award
- Hit the Night - Park Jong-hwan (Korea)
- After My Death - Jeon Yeo-been (Korea)
- FIPRESCI Award
- Last Child - SHIN Dongseok (Korea)
- NETPAC Award
- February - KIM Joonghyun (Korea)
- Kim Jiseok Award
- ' - Anucha BOONYAWATANA (Thailand)
- The Scythian Lamb - Daihachi Yoshida (Japan)
- KNN Award
- End of Summer - Zhou Quan (China)
- Busan Bank Award
- Pulse - Stevie CRUZ-MARTIN (Australia)
- Citizen Critics' Award
- Possible Faces - LEE Kanghyun (Korea)
- Busan Cinephile Award
- A Free Man - Andreas HARTMANN (Germany/Japan)
- CGV Arthouse Award
- Microhabitat - JEON Gowoon (Korea)
- Vision-Director's Award
- February - KIM Joonghyun (Korea)
- Hit the Night - JEONG Gayoung (Korea)
- The Asian Filmmaker of the Year
- Seijun Suzuki (Japan)
- Korean Cinema Award
- Christoph Terhechte (Germany)
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