19th Busan International Film Festival

The 19th Busan International Film Festival was held in South Korea from October 2 to October 11, 2014, and was hosted by Ken Watanabe and Moon So-ri. A total of 312 films from 79 countries were screened with total attendance of 226,473. Hong Kong director Ann Hui receives the Asian Filmmaker of the Year award.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]} The closing film was Gangster Payday.^[7][8]

2014 Busan International Film Festival

Opening film	Paradise in Service
Closing film	Gangster Payday
Location	Busan Cinema Center
Founded	1995
Hosted by	Ken Watanabe Moon So-ri
Festival date	October 2–11, 2014

Program

Opening

• Paradise in Service - Doze Niu (Taiwan)

Gala Presentation

• Coming Home - Zhang Yimou (China)
• The President - Mohsen Makhmalbaf (Georgia/France/United Kingdom/Germany)
• Revivre - Im Kwon-taek (South Korea)
• The Golden Era - Ann Hui (China/Hong Kong, China)

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Dearest - Peter Chan (Hong Kong, China/China)
• Haider - Vishal Bhardwaj (India)
• Song of the Phoenix - Wu Tianming (China)
• Bwaya - Francis Xavier Pasion (Philippines)
• Gentle - Le-Van Kiet (Vietnam/United States)
• The Continent - Han Han (China/Hong Kong, China)
• Suntali - Bhaskar Dhungana (Nepal)
• Sun Station - Saman Salur (Iran)
• Don't Go Breaking My Heart 2 - Johnnie To (Hong Kong, China)
• Fires on the Plain - Shinya Tsukamoto (Japan)
• Over Your Dead Body - Takashi Miike (Japan)
• Flapping in The Middle of Nowhere - Nguyen Hoang Diep (Vietnam/France/Germany/Norway)
• The Furthest End Awaits - Chiang Hsiu-chiung (Japan/Taiwan/Korea)
• So Be It - Kongdej Jaturanrasmee (Thailand)
• Tokyo Tribes - Sion Sono (Japan)
• W - Chonlasit Upanigkit (Thailand)
• Taksu - Kiki Sugino (Japan/Indonesia/Thailand/United States)
• A Corner of Heaven - Zhang Miaoyan (China/France)
• Sharing - Makoto Shinozaki (Japan)
• Second Life of Thieves - Woo Ming Jin (Malaysia/Netherlands/Switzerland)
• The Inseminator - Bui Kim Quy (Vietnam)
• Finding Fanny - Homi Adajania (India)
• Margarita with a Straw - Shonali Bose (India)
• The Monk - The Maw Naing (Myanmar/Czech Republic)
• Trench 143 - Narges Abyar (Iran)
• Black Coal, Thin Ice - Diao Yinan (China/Hong Kong, China)
• Labour of Love - Adityavikram Sengupta (India)
• A Few Cubic Meters of Love - Jamshid Mahmoudi (Iran/Afghanistan)
• Red Amnesia - Wang Xiaoshuai (China)
• Still the Water - Naomi Kawase (Japan)
• Fah-Gam-Toh - Parm Rangsi (Thailand)
• Kabukicho Love Hotel - Ryūichi Hiroki (Japan)
• The Sacred Arrow - Pema Tseden (China)
• The Move - Marat Sarulu (Kyrgyzstan)
• Goli Soda - Vijay Milton (India)
• Our Family - Yuya Ishii (Japan)
• My Man - Kazuyoshi Kumakiri (Japan)
• We Have a Guest - Mohammad Mehdi Asgarpour (Iran)
• Zahir - Sidhartha Siva (Iran)
• Sensitive Floor - Kamal Tabrizi (India)
• Fantasia - Wang Chao (China)
• Partners in Crime - Chang Jung-Chi (Taiwan)
• The Owners - Adilkhan Yerzhanov (Kazakhstan)
• Daughter..Mother.. Daughter - Panahbarkhoda Rezaee (Iran)
• Men Who Save the World - Liew Seng Tat (Malaysia/Netherlands/Germany/France)
• Dukhtar - Afia Nathaniel (Pakistan/United States/Norway)
• The Coffin in the Mountain - Xin Yukun (China)
• Teacher's Diary - Nithiwat Tharathorn (Thailand)
• Taxi and Telephone - Ernest Abdyjaparov (Kyrgyzstan/Germany)
• Tales - Rakhshan Bani-E'temad (Iran)
• Ant Story - Mostofa Sarwar Farooki (Bangladesh)
• Exit - Chienn Hsiang (Taiwan/Hong Kong, China)
• Memories on Stone - Shawkat Amin Korkiv (Kurd/Germany)
• Journey to the West - Tsai Ming-liang (France/Taiwan)
• 2030 - Minh Nguyen-Vo (Vietnam)
• One Summer - Yang Yishu (China)

New Currents

• Mariquina - Milo Sogueco (Philippines)
• Jalal's Story - Abu Shahed Emon (Bangladesh)
• We Will Be Ok - Baek Jae-ho (South Korea)
• End of Winter - Kim Dae-hwan (South Korea)
• Ghadi - Amin Dora (Lebanon/Qatar)
• Don't Say that Word - Takuma Sato (Japan)
• Nezha - Li Xiaofeng (China)
• What's the Time in Your World? - Safi Yazdanian (Iran)
• (Sex) Appeal - Wang Wei-ming (Taiwan)
• Sunrise - Partho Sen-Gupta (India/France)
• 13 - Hooman Seyedi (Iran)
• The Face of the Ash - Shakhwan Idrees (Iraq)

Korean Cinema Today - Panorama

• Han River - Lee Moo-young (South Korea)
• Alive - Park Jung-bum (South Korea)
• Thread of Lies - Lee Han (South Korea)
• Venus Talk - Kwon Chil-in (South Korea)
• Haemoo - Shim Sung-bo (South Korea)
• Love Never Fails - Min Byung-hun (South Korea)
• The Pirates - Lee Seok-hoon (South Korea)
• The Admiral: Roaring Currents - Kim Han-min (South Korea)
• The Tenor – Lirico Spinto - Kim Sang-man (South Korea)
• Mother - Bong Joon-ho (South Korea)
• Half - Kim Se-yeon (South Korea)
• Kundo: Age of the Rampant - Yoon Jong-bin (South Korea)
• Hill of Freedom - Hong Sang-soo (South Korea)
• Timing - Min Kyung-jo (South Korea)
• Gyeongju - Zhang Lu (South Korea)
• One on One - Kim Ki-duk (South Korea)
• A Girl at My Door - July Jung (South Korea)
• A Hard Day - Kim Seong-hun (South Korea)
• Daughter - Ku Hye-sun (South Korea)
• The Target - Chang (South Korea)
• The Fatal Encounter - Lee Jae-kyoo (South Korea)

Korean Cinema Today - Vision

• A Midsummer's Fantasia - Jang Kun-jae (South Korea)
• Socialphobia - Hong Seok-jae (South Korea)
• Set Me Free - Kim Tae-yong (South Korea)
• So Very Very - Park Je-wook (South Korea)
• The Liar - Kim Dong-myung (South Korea)
• Entangled - Lee Don-ku (South Korea)
• Shadow Island - Son Seung-ung (South Korea)
• Wild Flowers - Park Suk-young (South Korea)
• A Matter of Interpretation - Lee Kwang-kuk (South Korea)
• Gifted - Juhn Jai-hong (South Korea)

Korean Cinema Retrospective

Reminiscing the timeless filmmaker, Jung Jin-woo

• The MA-NIM - Jung Jin-woo (South Korea)
• Does Cuckoo Cry at Night - Jung Jin-woo (South Korea)
• The Rose That Swallowed Thorn - Jung Jin-woo (South Korea)
• Oyster Village - Jung Jin-woo (South Korea)
• Green Rain - Jung Jin-woo (South Korea)
• The White Crow - Jung Jin-woo (South Korea)
• The Student Boarder - Jung Jin-woo (South Korea)
• Border Line - Jung Jin-woo (South Korea)

Archeology of Korea Cinema

• Sad Story of Self Supporting Child (aka Sorrow in the Heavens) - Kim Soo-yong (South Korea)

World Cinema

• The Cut - Fatih Akin (Germany)
• A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence - Roy Andersson (Sweden)
• Gurov and Anna - Rafaël Ouellet (Canada)
• Cymbeline - Michael Almereyda (United States)
• The November Man - Roger Donaldson (United States)
• Getúlio - João Jardim (Brazil/Portugal)
• Return to Ithaca - Laurent Cantet (France)
• The Drop - Michaël R. Roskam (United States)
• Kill Me Three Times - Kriv Stenders (Australia)
• Eden - Mia Hansen-Løve (France)
• The Homesman - Tommy Lee Jones (United States)
• Waste Land - Pieter Van Hees (Belgium)
• X+Y - Morgan Matthews (United Kingdom)
• Hungry Hearts - Saverio Costanzo (Italy)
• Manglehorn - David Gordon Green (United States)
• Ciudad Delirio - Chus Gutierrez (Colombia/Spain)
• Black Souls - Francesco Munzi (Italy)
• The Kindergarten Teacher - Nadav Lapid (Israel/France)
• The Absent - Nicolás Pereda (Mexico)
• The Dinner - Ivano De Matteo (Italy)
• Leopardi - Mario Martone (Italy)
• Life of Riley - Alain Resnais (France)
• The Price of Fame - Xavier Beauvois (France/Switzerland/Belgium)
• Pasolini - Abel Ferrara (France/Italy/Belgium)
• Métamorphoses - Christophe Honoré (France)
• The Face of an Angel - Michael Winterbottom (United Kingdom)
• Inferno - Vinko Möderndorfer (Slovenia)
• Queen and Country - John Boorman (United Kingdom/France/Ireland/Romania)
• Misunderstood - Asia Argento (Italy/France)
• Jimmy's Hall - Ken Loach (United Kingdom)
• Alleluia - Fabrice Du Welz (France/Belgium)
• Goodbye to Language - Jean-Luc Godard (France)
• Bridges of Sarajevo - Jean-Luc Godard, Aida Begić, etc. (a total of 13 directors) (France/Bosnia and Herzegovina/Switzerland/Italy/Germany/Portugal)
• These Are the Rules - Ognjen Sviličić (Croatia/France/Serbia/Macedonia)
• Clouds of Sils Maria - Olivier Assayas (France)
• Corn Island - Giorgi Ovashvili (Georgia/Germany/France/Czech Republic/Kazakhstan)
• The Wonders - Alice Rohrwacher (Italy/Germany/Switzerland)
• Leviathan - Andrey Zvyagintsev (Russia)
• Stations of the Cross - Dietrich Brüggemann (Germany)
• The Fool - Yuri Bykov (Russia)
• Behavior - Ernesto Daranas (Cuba)
• Mommy - Xavier Dolan (Canada)
• Timbuktu - Abderrahmane Sissako (France/Mauritania)
• White God - Kornél Mundruczó (Hungary)
• Saint Laurent - Bertrand Bonello (France)
• Jauja - Lisandro Alonso (Argentina/Denmark/Mexico/United States)
• Two Days, One Night - Luc Dardenne, Jean-Pierre Dardenne (Belgium)
• Maps to the Stars - David Cronenberg (Canada)
• Chagall-Malevich - Alexander Mitta (Russia)
• Winter Sleep - Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Turkey/Germany/France)
• The Lamb - Kutluğ Ataman (Turkey/Germany)
• Aloft - Claudia Llosa (Spain/Canada/France)
• Boyhood - Richard Linklater (United States)

Flash Forward

• Cruel - Eric Cherriere (France)
• Fair Play - Andrea Sedláčková (Czech Republic/Slovak Republic/Germany)
• Aurora - Rodrigo Sepúlveda (Chile)
• Chubby - Bruno Deville (Switzerland/Belgium)
• Sebastian - Carlos Ciurlizza (Peru)
• Next to Her - Asaf Korman (Israel)
• Kafka's The Burrow [de] - Jochen Alexander Freydank (Germany)
• Self Made - Shira Geffen (Israel)
• Gente de bien - Franco Lolli (France/Colombia)
• Love the One You Love - Jenna Cato Bass (South Africa)
• Atlantic - Jan-Willem van Ewijk (Netherlands/Belgium/Germany/Morocco)
• Warsaw 44 - Jan Komasa (Poland)
• Cast No Shadow - Christian Sparkes (Canada)
• Sitting on the Edge of Marlene - Ana Valine (Canada)
• With Child - Titus Heckel (Canada)
• The Boss, Anatomy of a Crime - Sebastián Schindel (Argentina/Venezuela)
• You (Us) Me - Max Sobol (United Kingdom)
• Mr. Kaplan - Álvaro Brechner (Uruguay/Spain/Germany)
• In Silence - Zdeněk Jiráský (Czech Republic/Slovak Republic)
• The High Pressures - Angel Santos (Spain)
• Hammer and Oranges - The Market - Diego Bianchi (Italy)
• Schmitke [cs] - Štěpán Altrichter (Germany/Czech Republic)
• The Barber - Basel Owies (United States)
• The Mule - Angus Sampson, Tony Mahony (Australia)
• Rocks in My Pockets - Signe Baumane (United States/Latvia)
• Magical Girl - Carlos Vermut (Spain)
• My Brother's Keeper [de] - Maximilian Leo (Germany)
• Challat of Tunis - Kaouther Ben Hania (Tunisia/France/United Arab Emirates/Canada)
• Hope - Boris Lojkine (France)
• Party Girl - Marie Amachoukeli, Claire Burger, Samuel Theis (France)
• The Tribe - Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi (Ukraine)
• Before I Disappear - Shawn Christensen (United States)
• Natural Sciences - Matias Lucchesi (Argentina/France)
• Lock Charmer - Natalia Smirnoff (Argentina)
• Viktoria - Maya Vitkova (Bulgaria/Romania)

Wide Angle

Korean Short Film Competition

• A Familiar Taste - Kim In-seon (South Korea)
• Before the Moving - Kim Rae-won (South Korea)
• Happy Together - Lee Jeong-min (South Korea)
• The Giving-heart - Jung Jae-woong (South Korea)
• The Night - Choi Ki-yun (South Korea)
• The Strait Gate - Son Min-young (South Korea)
• Flayed - Kim Eun-ji (South Korea)
• Working Day - Lee Han-jong (South Korea)
• We'll Live! - Go Sang-hoon (South Korea)
• Cartwheel - Ahn Ju-young (South Korea)
• Visit - Seo Hyung-won (South Korea)
• 19:19 - Lee Yun-mee (South Korea)
• Horn - Byun Sung-bin (South Korea)
• Spring Colds - Kim Dong-ha (South Korea)
• As the Sun Sets - Ko Myoung-sung (South Korea)
• Mrs. Young - Bang Woo-ri (South Korea)
• Hurdle - Bak Sung-jin (South Korea)

Asian Short Film Competition

• Two Halves of a Truth - Neda Assef (Iran)
• White Sparrow - Dilovar Sultonov (Tajikistan)
• Son - Subarna Thapa (Nepal/France)
• Stairway - Matt Wu (Taiwan)
• Stone Heart - Martika Ramirez Escobar (Philippines)
• That Day of the Month - Jirassaya Wongsutin (Thailand)
• Xing - Liew Bradley (Malaysia)
• The Old Tree - Farnoush Abedirenani (Iran)
• Summer Secret - Zeng Zeng (China)
• Gyges - He Wenchao (China)

Short Film Showcase

• The Tide Keeper - Alyx Duncan (New Zealand)
• A Rose Reborn - Park Chan-wook (Italy)
• One Armed Man - Tim Guinee (United States)
• Rowboat - CJ Wang Hsi-Chieh (Taiwan)
• The Singers - Nonzee Nimibutr (Thailand)
• Molehill - Joanna Zastróżna (Poland)
• The Bicycle Thief - Min Yong-keun (South Korea)
• True Love Story - Gitanjali Rao (India)
• Cambodia 2099 - Davy Chou (France)
• The Actress - Moon So-ri (South Korea)
• Awaiting - Kang Je-gyu (South Korea)

Documentary Competition

• Collapse - Mun Jeong-hyun, Lee Won-woo (South Korea)
• A Lullaby Under the Nuclear Sky - Tomoko Kana (Japan)
• Strangers on the Field - Kim Myeong-joon (South Korea)
• The Storm Makers - Guillaume Suon (Cambodia/France)
• Nick and Chai - Cha Escala, Wena Sanchez (Philippines)
• Factory Complex - Im Heung-soon (South Korea)
• The Anxious Day Out - Kim Cheol-min (South Korea)
• The Hospice - Lee Chang-jae (South Korea)
• Our Metropolis - Gautam Sonti, Usha Rao (India)
• Cotton - Hao Zhou (China/France)
• 03-Flats - Lei Yuan Bin (Singapore)

Documentary Showcase

• The Look of Silence - Joshua Oppenheimer (Denmark)
• Flowers of Taipei - Taiwan New Cinema - Hsieh Chin Lin (Taiwan)
• Garuda Power : The Spirit Within - Bastian Meiresonne (France/Indonesia)
• Fluid Boundaries - Vladimir Todorovic, Mun Jeong-hyun, Daniel Rudi Haryanto (Singapore/Indonesia/Korea)
• Y/our Music - Waraluck Every, David Reeve (Thailand/United Kingdom)
• Foot Prints in the Desert - Balaka Ghosh (India)
• My Fair Wedding - Jang Hee-sun (South Korea)
• The Salt of the Earth - Wim Wenders, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado (Brazil/Italy/France)
• Southeast Asian Cinema - When the Rooster Crows - Leonardo Cinieri Lombroso (Italy/Singapore)
• The Truth Shall Not Sink with Sewol - Lee Sang-ho, Ahn Hae-ryong (South Korea)
• Little Pond in Main Street - Lee Kang-gil (South Korea)
• We Come as Friends - Hubert Sauper (France/Austria)
• Daddy's School - Hassan Solhjou (United Kingdom)
• National Gallery - Frederick Wiseman (France/United States)
• Red Army - Gabe Polsky (United States/Russia)
• Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait - Usama Muhammad, Wiam Simav Bedirxan (Syria/France)
• Parallel - Kay Kim (South Korea)
• Concerning Violence - Göran Hugo Olsson (Sweden/Finland/Denmark/United States)
• Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy? - Michel Gondry (France)

Cinekids

• Song of the Sea - Tomm Moore (Ireland)
• Paper Planes - Robert Connolly (Australia)
• Millionaire Dog - Tom Fernandez (Spain)
• Bamse and the Thief City - Christian Ryltenius (Sweden/Taiwan)
• That Boy Emil - Per Åhlin, Alicja Jaworski Bjork, Lasse Persson (Sweden)

Open Cinema

• The Gate - Régis Wargnier (France/Belgium/Cambodia)
• Therapy for a Vampire - David Ruehm (Austria/Switzerland)
• Five Minutes to Tomorrow - Isao Yukisada (China)
• Cart - Boo Ji-young (South Korea)
• Geronimo - Tony Gatlif (France)
• Brotherhood of Blades - Lu Yang (China)
• Mary Kom - Omung Kumar (India)
• Whiplash - Damien Chazelle (United States)

Special Programs in Focus

New Turkish Cinema: Faces of the 21st Century

• The Extremely Tragic Story of Celal Tan and His Family - Onur Ünlü (Turkey)
• Cold - Uğur Yücel (Turkey)
• I am not Him - Tayfun Pirselimoglu (Turkey/Greece/France)
• Mold - Ali Aydın (Turkey/Germany)
• Inside - Zeki Demirkubuz (Turkey)
• Black and White - Ahmet Boyacıoğlu (Turkey)
• Singing Women - Reha Erdem (Turkey)

The Power of Georgian Women Filmmakers

• Day Is Longer Than Night - Lana Gogoberidze (Georgia)
• Story of Mountainous Racha - Lana Gogoberidze (Georgia)
• Felicita - Salome Alexi (Georgia/Georgia)
• The Lullaby - Nana Janelidze (Georgia)
• Salt White - Keti Machavariani (Georgia)
• Susa - Rusudan Pirveli (Georgia)
• Keep Smiling - Rusudan Chkonia (Georgia/France/Luxembourg)
• Bakhmaro - Salome Jashi (Germany/Georgia)
• The Machine Which Makes Everything Disappear - Tinatin Gurchiani (Georgia/Germany)
• Brother - Teona Mghvdeladze, Thierry Grenade (Georgia/France)
• Brides - Tinatin Kajrishvili (Georgia/France)
• In Bloom - Nana Ekvtimishvili, Simon Gross (Georgia)

Midnight Passion

• Live TV - Kim Sun-ung, Son Kwang-soo (South Korea)
• The World of Kanako - Tetsuya Nakashima (Japan)
• Nymphomaniac - Lars von Trier (Denmark/Belgium/France/Germany/United Kingdom)
• Exists - Eduardo Sánchez (United States)
• The Incident - Isaac Ezban (Mexico/United States)
• Wyrmwood - Kiah Roache-Turner (Australia)
• It Follows - David Robert Mitchell (United States)
• Hungry Ghost Ritual - Nick Cheung (Malaysia)
• The Canal - Ivan Kavanagh (Ireland/United Kingdom)
• Creep - Patrick Brice (United States)

Closing

• Gangster Payday - Lee Po-cheung (Hong Kong)

Awards

• New Currents Award
  • End of Winter - Kim Dae-hwan (South Korea)^[9]
  • Special Mention : 13 - Hooman Seyedi (Iran)
• BIFF Mecenat Award
  • The Storm Makers - Guillaume Suon (Cambodia)
  • Collapse - Mun Jeong-hyun, Lee Won-woo (South Korea)
• Sonje Award
  • Stairway - Matt Wu (Taiwan)
  • The Night - Choi Ki-yun (South Korea)
• Actor & Actress of the Year Award
  • Choi Woo-shik - Set Me Free (South Korea)
  • Cho Soo-hyang - Wild Flowers (South Korea)
• Daemyung Culture Wave Award
  • The Liar - Kim Dong-myung (South Korea)
• FIPRESCI Award
  • What's the Time in Your World? - Safi Yazdanian (Iran)
• NETPAC Award
  • Socialphobia - Hong Seok-jae (South Korea)
• KNN Award
  • Ghadi - Amin Dora (Lebanon)
• Busan Bank Award
  • The Boss, Anatomy of a Crime - Sebastián Schindel (Argentina)
• Citizen Critics’ Award
  • Set Me Free - Kim Tae-yong (South Korea)
• Busan Cinephile Award
  • The Look of Silence - Joshua Oppenheimer (Denmark)
• CGV Movie Collage Award
  • A Matter of Interpretation - Lee Kwang-kuk (South Korea)
• DGK Award
  • A Midsummer's Fantasia - Jang Kun-jae (South Korea)
  • Socialphobia - Hong Seok-jae (South Korea)
• The Asian Filmmaker of the Year
  • Ann Hui (Hong Kong)
• Korean Cinema Award
  • Corinne Siegrist-Oboussier (Switzerland)