The 25th edition of the Busan International Film Festival (BIFF), in South Korea, the most important film festival in Asia, will take place this year between October 21 and 30. In keeping with tradition, it will also host the Asian Film Market. Once again, French films have a substantial presence in this event mainly dedicated to Asian cinema.
With nineteen French features or majority-French coproductions presented this year, despite the special conditions imposed by the public health crisis, the 25th Busan International Film Festival remains a very fine edition for French cinema, with the presentation of films by François Ozon, Quentin Dupieux, Suzanne Lindon, Guillaume Brac, Samir Guesmi, and Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouilh, among others.
This edition, contrary to many recent and upcoming events, will be entirely "physical," without online screenings, but with limited audience numbers enforced in theaters, and with only one screening per film.
As current Covid-19 circumstances make it impossible for international artists to travel, the festival plans to organize post-screening, online discussions with the filmmakers, details of which will be announced in due course.
All the French films at the 25th Busan International Film Festival
World Cinema
- Red Soil by Farid Bentoumi
- All Hands on Deck by Guillaume Brac
- Gagarine by Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouilh
- Ibrahim by Samir Guesmi
- Night of the Kings by Philippe Lacôte
- The Third War by Giovanni Aloi
- Love Affair(s) by Emmanuel Mouret
- Mandibles by Quentin Dupieux
- Simple Passion by Danielle Arbid
- Spring Blossom by Suzanne Lindon
- Slalom by Charlène Favier
- Teddy by Ludovic Boukherma and Zoran Boukherma
- Rascal by Peter Dourountzis (minority)
- In the Dusk by Sharunas Bartas (minority)
- Digger by Georgis Grigorakis (minority)
- And Tomorrow the Entire World by Julia Von Heinz (minority)
- La Fortaleza by Jorge Thielen Armand (minoriy)
- Quo Vadis, Aida? by Jasmila Žbanić (minority)
- Tragic Jungle by Yulene Olaizola (minority)
- Zanka Contact by Ismaël El Iraki (minority)
Open Cinema
Wide Angle
- Irradiated by Rithy Panh
- Notturno by Gianfranco Rosi (minority)
Flash Forward
A Window on Asian Cinema
- Coalesce by Jessé Miceli
- The Salt in Our Waters by Rezwan Shahriar Sumit (minority)
- Yellow Cat by Adilkhan Yerzhanov (minority)
New Currents
Icons
- Laila in Haifa by Amos Gitaï
- The Salt of Tears by Philippe Garrel
- New Order by Michel Franco (minority)
- Undine by Christian Petzold (minority)
