# 22nd Busan International Film Festival

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

* Glass Garden - Shin Su-won (South Korea)

### Gala Presentation

* Butterfly Sleep - Jeong Jae-eun (South Korea/Japan)
* Manhunt - John Woo (Hong Kong, China)
* Mother! - Darren Aronofsky (United States)
* Narratage - Isao Yukisada (Japan)
* The Third Murder - Hirokazu Kore-eda (Japan)

### A Window on Asian Cinema

* Alone - Akan Satayev (Kazakhstan)
* Angamaly Diaries - Lijo Jose Pellissery (India)
* Ash - Li Xiaofeng (China)
* Baahubali 2: The Conclusion - S. S. Rajamouli (India)
* A Beautiful Star - Daihachi Yoshida (Japan)
* Before We Vanish - Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Japan)
* Beyond the Clouds - Majid Majidi (India)
* Birds Without Names - Kazuya Shiraishi (Japan)
* Blade of the Immortal - Takashi Miike (Japan/United Kingdom)
* The Bold, the Corrupt, and the Beautiful - Yang Ya-che (Taiwan)
* Mukkabaaz - Anurag Kashyap (India)
* Brotherhood of Blades II: The Infernal Battlefield - LU Yang (China)
* The Carousel Never Stops Turning - Ismail BASBETH (Indonesia)
* Close-Knit - Naoko Ogigami (Japan)
* The Decaying - Sonny CALVENTO (Philippines)
* Dragonfly Eyes - Xu Bing (China)
* Goodbye Kathmandu - Nabin Subba (Nepal)
* The Great Buddha+ - HUANG Hsin-Yao (Taiwan)
* In the Shadows - Dipesh JAIN (India/United Kingdom/Germany)
* The Insult - Ziad Doueiri (Lebanon/France)
* The Journey - Mohamed Al-Daradji (Iraq/United Kingdom/Netherlands)
* A Letter to the President - Roya Sadat (Afghanistan)
* Love and Shukla (original title Haanduk; Jatla Siddartha, India)
* Malila: The Farewell Flower - Anucha BOONYAWATANA (Thailand)
* A Man of Integrity - Mohammad Rasoulof (Iran)
* Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts - Mouly Surya (Indonesia/France/Malaysia/Thailand)
* Miracles of the Namiya General Store - Ryūichi Hiroki (Japan)
* Missing Johnny - HUANG Xi (Taiwan)
* Munabia - Taalaibek KULMENDEEV (Kyrgyzstan)
* No Bed of Roses - Mostofa Sarwar Farooki (Bangladesh/India)
* No Date, No Signature - Vahid Jalilvand (Iran)
* Omerta - Hansal Mehta (India)
* Our Time Will Come - Ann Hui (China/Hong Kong, China)
* Outrage Coda - Takeshi Kitano (Japan)
* Pigeon Tango - LEE Chi Yuarn (Taiwan)
* Pop Aye - Kirsten Tan (Singapore/Thailand)
* Poppy Goes to Hollywood Redux - Visal SOK (Cambodia)
* Radiance - Naomi Kawase (Japan/France)
* The Ringside Story - TAKE Masaharu (Japan)
* Samui Song - Pen-Ek Ratanaruang (Thailand/Germany/Norway)
* The Scythian Lamb - Daihachi Yoshida (Japan)
* Sea Serpent - Joseph Laban (Philippines)
* The Seen and Unseen - Kamila Andini (Indonesia/Netherlands/Australia/Qatar)
* Side Job - Ryūichi Hiroki (Japan)
* Silent Mist - ZHANG Miaoyan (China/France)
* Smaller and Smaller Circles - Raya Martin (Philippines)
* Sweating the Small Stuff - NINOMIYA Ryutaro (Japan)
* The Tailor - TRAN Buu Loc, Kay NGUYEN (Vietnam)
* They - Anahita GHAZVINIZADEH (United States/Qatar)
* Those Long Haired Nights - Gerardo CALAGUI (Philippines)
* The Tokyo Night Sky Is Always the Densest Shade of Blue - Yuya Ishii (Japan)
* Underpants Thief - Somaratne Dissanayake (Sri Lanka)
* Wajib - Annemarie Jacir (Palestine)
* Walking Past the Future - Li Ruijun (China/Hong Kong, China)
* Wilderness - KISHI Yoshiyuki (Japan)
* ZOO - Shlok SHARMA (India)

### 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

* America Town - Jeon Soo-il (Korea)
* Anarchist from Colony - Lee Joon-ik (Korea)
* The Battleship Island: Director's Cut - Ryoo Seung-wan (Korea)
* Bluebeard - LEE Sooyoun (Korea)
* The Day After - Hong Sang-soo (Korea)
* The Emperor - MIN Byunghun, LEE Sanghun (Korea)
* Mermaid - O Muel (Korea)
* Method - PANG Eunjin (Korea)
* Misbehavior - Kim Tae-yong (Korea)
* Missing - E Oni (Korea)
* Notebook from My Mother - KIM Sungho (Korea)
* Okja - Bong Joon-ho (Korea/United States)
* Old Love - PARK Kiyong (Korea/Japan)
* Romans 8:37 - Shin Yeon-shick (Korea)
* Taklamakan - KO Eunki (Korea)
* A Taxi Driver - Jang Hoon (Korea)

### 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
#### The Legendary Star, Shin Seong-il

* The Barefooted Youth - Kim Ki-duk (Korea)
* A Day Off - Lee Man-hee (Korea)
* Early Rain - Jung Jin-woo (Korea)
* Eunuch - Shin Sang-ok (Korea)
* The General's Mustache - LEE Seong-gu (Korea)
* Gilsotteum - Im Kwon-taek (Korea)
* Heavenly Homecoming to Stars - Lee Jang-ho (Korea)
* Mist - Kim Soo-yong (Korea)

### World Cinema

* 9 Fingers  [fr] - F. J. Ossang [fr] (France/Portugal)
* April's Daughter - Michel Franco (Mexico)
* Australia Day - Kriv Stenders (Australia)
* Battle of the Sexes - Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris (United States)
* Beyond the River - Craig FREIMOND (South Africa)
* Bye Bye Germany - Sam Garbarski (Germany/Belgium/Luxembourg)
* Carbon - Olivier Marchal (France)
* The Confession - Zaza Urushadze (Georgia/Estonia)
* Directions - Stephan Komandarev (Bulgaria/Germany/Macedonia)
* Diving - Mélanie Laurent (France)
* The Double Lover - François Ozon (France/Belgium)
* Downsizing - Alexander Payne (United States)
* Equilibrium - Vincenzo Marra (Italy)
* Euphoria - Lisa Langseth (Sweden/Germany)
* A Fantastic Woman - Sebastián Lelio (Chile)
* The Florida Project - Sean Baker (United States)
* Frost - Šarūnas Bartas (Lithuania/France/Poland/Ukraine)
* A Gentle Creature - Sergei Loznitsa (France/Germany/Netherlands/Lithuania)
* Good Manners - Juliana ROJAS, Marco DUTRA (Brazil/France)
* Hochelaga, Land of Souls - François Girard (Canada)
* In the Fade - Fatih Akin (Germany/France)
* The Intruder - Leonardo DI COSTANZO (Italy/Switzerland/France)
* Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc - Bruno Dumont (France)
* Jupiter's Moon - Kornél Mundruczó (Hungary/Germany)
* The Last Suit - Pablo SOLARZ (Argentina/Spain)
* The Leisure Seeker - Paolo Virzì (United States/France/Italy)
* Let the Sunshine In - Claire Denis (France)
* The Lion Sleeps Tonight - Nobuhiro Suwa (Japan/France)
* Longing - Savi Gabizon (Israel)
* Loveless - Andrey Zvyagintsev (Russia/France/Belgium/Germany)
* The Motive - Manuel MARTÍN CUENCA (Spain)
* The Mountain Between Us - Hany Abu-Assad (United States)
* Orchestra Class - Rachid HAMI (France)
* The Other Side of Hope - Aki Kaurismäki (Finland/Germany)
* Platoon - Oliver Stone (United States/United Kingdom)
* Porcupine Lake - Ingrid Veninger (Canada)
* Promise at Dawn - Éric Barbier (France/Belgium)
* Rainbow - A Private Affair - Paolo TAVIANI (Italy/France)
* Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company - Jean-Luc Godard (France/Switzerland)
* Sergio & Sergei - Ernesto DARANAS (Cuba/Spain)
* The Square - Ruben Östlund (Sweden/Germany/France/Denmark)
* The Summit - Santiago Mitre (Argentina)
* Sweet Country - Warwick Thornton (Australia)
* Victoria & Abdul - Stephen Frears (United Kingdom)
* Volubilis - Faouzi Bensaïdi (Morocco/France/Qatar)
* Wonderstruck - Todd Haynes (United States)
* Zama - Lucrecia Martel (Argentina)

### Flash Forward

* Beach Rats - Eliza Hittman (United States)
* Beauty and the Dogs - Kaouther Ben Hania (Tunisia/France/Sweden/Norway/Lebanon/Qatar/Switzerland)
* Bitter Flowers - Olivier Meys (Belgium/France/Switzerland/China)
* The Desert Bride - Cecilia ATÁN, Valeria PIVATO (Argentina/Chile)
* Five Fingers for Marseilles - Michael MATTHEWS (South Africa)
* Gabriel and the Mountain - Fellipe GAMARANO BARBOSA (Brazil/France)
* God's Own Country - (United Kingdom)
* Goliath - Dominik LOCHER (Switzerland)
* Head. Two Ears - Vitaly SUSLIN (Russia)
* Home Team - Carlos MORELLI (Uruguay/Argentina/Brazil)
* I Am Not a Witch - Rungano NYONI (United Kingdom/France)
* Life Guidance - Ruth Mader (Austria)
* Little Crusader - Václav Kadrnka (Czech Republic/Slovak Republic/Italy)
* M.F.A. - Natalia Leite (United States)
* The Man with the Magic Box - Bodo Kox (Poland/Italy)
* Manuel - Dario ALBERTINI (Italy)
* Men Don't Cry - Alen DRLJEVIĆ (Bosnia and Herzegovina/Slovenia/Croatia/Germany)
* Montparnasse Bienvenüe - Léonor SERRAILLE (France)
* More - Onur SAYLAK (Turkey)
* Never Steady, Never Still - Kathleen Hepburn (Canada)
* The Nothing Factory - Pedro PINHO (Portugal)
* Oblivion Verses - Alireza KHATAMI (France/Germany/Netherlands/Chile)
* Okafor's Law - Omoni Oboli (Nigeria)
* Pulse - Stevie CRUZ-MARTIN (Australia)
* Ravens - Jens Assur (Sweden)
* Soldiers. Story from Ferentari - Ivana MLADENOVIC (Romania/Serbia/Belgium)
* Summer 1993 - Carla SIMÓN (Spain)
* The Testament - Amichai GREENBERG (Israel/Austria)
* Tom of Finland - Dome Karukoski (Finland/United States)
* Under the Family Tree - Constanze KNOCHE (Germany/Poland)
* Upside Down - Hugo MARTINS (Portugal)
* Veleno - Diego OLIVARES (Italy)
* Violeta at Last - Hilda HIDALGO (Costa Rica/Mexico)
* Where the Shadows Fall - Valentina PEDICINI (Italy)
* Wind Traces - Jimena MONTEMAYOR (Mexico)
* Winter Brothers - Hlynur PÁLMASON (Denmark/Iceland)
* A Worthy Companion - Carlos and Jason Sanchez (Canada)

### 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)
* Ex Libris: The New York Public Library - 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 - Wojciech KLIMALA (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

* Alice in Wonderland - Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, Wilfred Jackson (United States)
* Bamse and the Witch's Daughter - Christian RYLTENIUS (Sweden)
* Finding Nemo - Andrew Stanton (United States)
* Lila's Book - Marcela RINCÓN GONZÁLEZ (Colombia/Uruguay)
* One Hundred and One Dalmatians - Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, Wolfgang Reitherman (United States)

#### Animation Showcase

* Have a Nice Day - LIU Jian (China)
* Lu Over the Wall - Masaaki Yuasa (Japan)
* Mary and the Witch's Flower - Hiromasa Yonebayashi (Japan)
* The Night Is Short, Walk on Girl - Masaaki Yuasa (Japan)
* On Happiness Road - SUNG Hsin-Yin (Taiwan)
* Ping Pong The Animation - Masaaki Yuasa (Japan)
* Tehran Taboo - Ali SOOZANDEH (Austria/Germany)
* The Tatami Galaxy - Masaaki Yuasa (Japan)

### Open Cinema

* Fireworks, Should We See It from the Side or the Bottom? - Akiyuki Shinbo (Japan)
* Let Me Eat Your Pancreas - TSUKIKAWA Sho (Japan)
* Salyut-7 - Klim SHIPENKO (Russia)
* The Shape of Water - Guillermo del Toro (United States)
* Tomorrow and Thereafter - Noémie Lvovsky (France)
* Zombillenium - Arthur DE PINS, Alexis DUCORD (France/Belgium)

### Special Programs in Focus
#### Suzuki Seijun: A Drifter across the Lines List

* Branded to Kill - Seijun Suzuki (Japan)
* Gate of Flesh - Seijun Suzuki (Japan)
* Kagero-za - Seijun Suzuki (Japan)
* Pistol Opera - Seijun Suzuki (Japan)
* Tokyo Drifter - Seijun Suzuki (Japan)
* Yumeji - Seijun Suzuki (Japan)
* Zigeunerweisen - Seijun Suzuki (Japan)

#### 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

* The Brink - Jonathan LI (Hong Kong, China)
* Downrange - Ryuhei Kitamura (Japan/United States)
* Ghost Stories - Andy Nyman, Jeremy Dyson (United Kingdom)
* It Stains the Sands Red - Colin Minihan (United States)
* Mayhem - Joe Lynch (United States)
* Parado - Wilson Yip (Hong Kong, China)
* ROKUROKU: The Promise of the Witch - Keita Amemiya (Japan)
* Sweet Virginia - Jamie M. Dagg (United States/Canada)
* TOKYO VAMPIRE HOTEL - Sion Sono (Japan)

### Closing

* Love Education - Sylvia Chang (Taiwan)

## 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
** Malila: The Farewell Flower - 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)