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The competition was created in 2017 as a tribute to the late BIFF founding programmer, who dedicated his life to introducing and supporting Asian cinema and died at the age of 57 in Cannes that same year.Ĭandidates had previously stayed scattered throughout the Window on Asian Cinema strand but are now gathered together for the first time in a single section.

The film is also screening in the inaugural Jiseok competition section, newly created to house all the candidates selected for the Kim Jiseok award for directors who have made three or more feature films. He also stars in the feature as a disabled man who must journey from town to town in order to replace a broken electrical part, and in the process gives and receives help from various people experiencing their own difficulties.

Opening title Scent Of Wind will see actor/director Mohaghegh, who won BIFF’s New Currents award and Fipresci prize in 2015 with his second feature Immortal, returning to the South Korean port city with his fourth film. “Busan Film Festival traditionally doesn’t assert things but prepares films and events where can be melted into them.” “We are being very careful about ‘K-culture’ and ‘K-contents’ and things with ‘K’ stuck on them,” says Lee. “We’re excited to see how audiences will take in what we have prepared, whether and how we will satisfy them,” adds Lee, with a nod to the changes in audience viewing habits that have developed over the pandemic with social distancing and the rise of OTT platform usage.Īware of the growing global popularity of K-­content, led by multiple Oscar winner Parasite and Netflix’s global phenomenon Squid Game, Lee says BIFF organisers nevertheless have no thought of leaning into this new and stronger wave of popularity. Indoor masking is still mandatory in South Korea, but other quarantine requirements have been dropped, including mandatory PCR testing upon arrival. The winter has been rather long,” says Lee Yong-kwan, chairman of BIFF. “Our motto this year is, ‘Seeing each other face-to-face again’ and ‘return to normality’. The international premiere of Hadi Mohaghegh’s Iranian film Scent Of Wind opens the festival on October 5, before it closes with Japanese director Kei Ishikawa’s Venice title A Man on October 14.

The 27th Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) is set to return to pre-pandemic numbers of invited guests, full-capacity theatre seating, events and parties for the first time since the advent of Covid‑19.