September 17 marks the start of the Busan International Film Festival (BIFF), considered Asia's most important film festival. Until September 26, France will shine in the South Korean seaside city, with more than 50 French films or co-productions on the program, including 18 majority-French features, accompanied by an artistic delegation.
This year, the BIFF will welcome several French artists who will travel to Busan with the support of Unifrance, first and foremost Juliette Binoche, to whom a Special Program in Focus has been dedicated, and who will be presenting her first documentary as a director, In-I in Motion.
We should also mention Valentine Cadic who will come to present That Summer in Paris, Nadia Melliti and Ji-min Park for The Little Sister, Julia Kowalski and Roxane Mesquida for Her Will Be Done, Déni Oumar Pitsaev for Imago, Sepideh Farsi for Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk, and Tamara Stepanyan for In the Land of Arto.
A dinner bringing together the French talents in attendance will be organized on September 20 by Unifrance, in collaboration with the Ambassade de France in South Korea.
Market
The Asian Contents & Film Market (ACFM), the festival's market, will also take place in Busan from September 20 through 23. For the seventeenth year, Unifrance will share a stand with EFP - European Film Promotion in the Busan Exhibition Convention Centre (BEXCO).
12 French exporters will be present: Alpha Violet, Best Friend Forever (BFF), Charades, Ginger & Fed, Indie Sales, Kinology, Losange Films, mk2 films, Paradise City Sales, Pulsar Content, Reel Suspects, The Party Film Sales
All the French films at the 30th BIFF
Gala Presentation
World Cinema
- The Voice of Hind Rajab by Kaouther Ben Hania
- The Little Sister by Hafsia Herzi
- That Summer in Paris by Valentine Cadic
- The Great Arch by Stéphane Demoustier
- Meteors by Hubert Charuel
- No Beast. So Fierce by Burhan Qurbani (minority-French co-production)
- God Will Not Help by Hana Jusic (minority-French co-production)
- Adam’s Sake by Laura Wandel (minority-French co-production)
- The Chronology of Water by Kristen Stewart (minority-French co-production)
Icons
- The Wizard of the Kremlin by Olivier Assayas
- A Magnificent Life by Sylvain Chomet
- The Stranger by François Ozon
- Two Prosecutors by Sergei Loznitsa
- Alpha by Julia Ducournau
- Nouvelle Vague by Richard Linklater
- Enzo by Robin Campillo
- Sirât by Oliver Laxe (minority-French co-production)
- Eagles of the Republic by Tarik Saleh (minority-French co-production)
- Sentimental Value by Joachim Trier (minority-French co-production)
- The Young Mothers' Home by Luc Dardenne, Jean-Pierre Dardenne (minority-French co-production)
- The Love That Remains by Hlynur Pálmason (minority-French co-production)
- The Secret Agent by Kleber Mendonça Filho (minority-French co-production)
- Magellan by Lav Diaz (minority-French co-production)
- Silent Friend by Ildiko Enyedi (minority-French co-production)
- Orphan by László Nemes (minority-French co-production)
- Father Mother Sister Brother by Jim Jarmusch (minority-French co-production)
Special Program in Focus - Juliette Binoche, Between Motion and Emotion
- In-I in Motion by Juliette Binoche
- Three Colours : Blue by Krzysztof Kieslowski
- The Lovers on the Bridge by Leos Carax
Flash Forward
- The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo by Diego Céspedes
- Her Will Be Done by Julia Kowalski
- I Only Rest in the Storm by Pedro Pinho (minority-French co-production)
- Une année italienne by Laura Samani (minority-French co-production)
- Wild Foxes by Valéry Carnoy (minority-French co-production)
Open Cinema
A Window on Asian Cinema
- In the Land of Arto by Tamara Stepanyan
- Becoming by Zhannat Alshanova (minority-French co-production)
- Renoir by Chie Hayakawa (minority-French co-production)
- Love on Trial by Koji Fukada (minority-French co-production)
- A Useful Ghost by Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke (minority-French co-production)
- Amoeba by Siyou Tan (minority-French co-production)
Wide Angle - Documentary Showcase
- Imago by Déni Oumar Pitsaev
- Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk by Sepideh Farsi
- I, Poppy by Vivek Chaudhary (minority-French co-production)
- Coexistence, My Ass! by Amber Fares (minority-French co-production)
- Hair, Paper, Water... by Minh Quý Trương, Nicolas Graux (minority-French co-production)
Wide Angle - Documentary Competition
- Baima Boy by Bingjun Ye (minority-French co-production)
Competition
- Spying Star by Vimukthi Jayasundara (minority-French co-production)
- Left-Handed Girl by Shih-Ching Tsou (minority-French co-production)
- Resurrection by Bi Gan (minority-French co-production)
Vision - Asia
- Kurak by Erke Dzhumakmatova and Emil Atageldiev (minority-French co-production)
Special Program in Focus - Defining Moments of Asian Cinema
- This Is Not a Film by Jafar Panahi, Mojtaba Mirtahmasb (minority-French co-production)
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