BUSAN 2011 FESTIVAL
line-up also features four previous Asian Project Market titles and 15 Asian Cin- ema Fund (ACF) benefi ciaries. This year, BIFF is also launching the
Busan Cinema Forum (BCF), an inter- national academic conference (see side- bar, below). The keynote speakers include Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul, while participants will feature Cahiers Du Cinéma and the Soci- ety for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS). With the BCF, the festival hopes to create a network of academic organisations and critical journals. “We’ve felt festival-going audiences
have become somewhat less serious in their tastes,” says executive program- mer Kim Ji-seok. “There is less dis- course about the films themselves. More discourse about things exterior to the fi lms. There is something lacking. We felt that without a forum like this, we wouldn’t be fulfilling the role of a fi lm festival. We’d just be a ‘festival’.”
Star quotient International film-makers and stars expected to be in town include Isabelle Huppert, Michelle Yeoh, Yonfan, Luc Besson, Joe Odagiri, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Tsui Hark, Sion Sono, Johnnie To and 1960s cinema master Kim Ki-duk. Song Il-gon’s tragic love story Always,
the opening-night fi lm, will be the fi rst to screen in the new Busan Cinema Center. Featuring pan-Asian stars So Ji- sub and Han Hyo-joo, it is sure to attract the local fans in force. Among its discoveries, BIFF has also
scored the international premieres of Guido Lombardi’s La-Bas: A Criminal Education, which won the Venice fi lm festival’s Luigi de Laurentiis Lion of the Future award for a first work, and Francesco Bruni’s Easy, which took the Controcampo award for Italian fi lm on the Lido. Other Venice winners spotted by
BIFF before winning Venice prizes include Orizzonti award winner Kotoko by Shinya Tsukamoto and Sion Sono’s Himizu, which picked up the Mastroi- anni award for best young actor or actress for its young stars Shota Sometani and Fumi Nikaido. BIFF will close with Japanese title
Chronicle Of My Mother, directed by Masato Harada, which is an adaptation of Yasushi Inoue’s well-known autobio- graphical novel and stars Koji Yakusho, Kirin Kiki and Aoi Miyazaki.
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Masato Harada’s Chronicle Of My Mother will close the 16th BIFF
BUSAN CINEMA FORUM: ACADEMIA MEETS FILM CRITICISM The forum aims to put the ‘fi lm’ back into fi lm festival
The Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) this year is looking to help establish “a strong foundation in theory, academics, and industry” by launching the Busan Cinema Forum (BCF). It is part of BIFF’s mandate to support and develop the fi lm industry through diverse programmes such as the Asian Film Academy (AFA) and the Asian Cinema Fund (ACF). The forum is an international academic conference which will gather fi lm scholars from all over the world. The inaugural forum’s theme is
Seeking the Path of Asian Cinema in the 21st Century: East Asia. It will be held on October 10-12 at the Haeundae Grand Hotel in Busan. “It’s an adventure for us,” says
executive programmer Kim Ji-seok. “Previously, we held academic seminars as side events, but this is the fi rst time we’re holding a proper forum where you have to pay to get a badge. We’re going to have prominent keynote speakers and tremendously respected organisations participating. There
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Film Studies Association of Korea (FISAK) Topic: Globalism and Localism of East Asian Films
Keynote: Apichatpong Weerasethakul
isn’t any network between academic organisations and critical journals, so we hope to create one here.” The keynote speakers are
Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul, whose Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives won the Palme d’Or at Cannes in 2010, and Yale University professor Dudley Andrew, whose works include Concepts Of Film Theory and Film In The Aura Of Art. Six organisations will be hosting discussions on various topics:
Cahiers Du Cinéma Topics: Cahiers Du Cinéma and Asia Cinema; Cahiers Du Cinéma and Korean Films; Round-table discussion with some of Cahiers
Annual Southeast Asian Cinemas Conference (ASEACC) Topic: South-East Asian Cinema in Time
Film Festival Research Network (FFRN) Topic: Film Festivals and Asia
The Association of East Asian Film Studies (AEAF) Topic: Competing Approaches to Understanding East Asian Cinema in the 21st century: National, Regional or Global?
Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) Topic: Globalisation and Asian Cinema
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