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16th Busan International Film Festival

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Opening film
  
Always

Location
  
Busan, South Korea

Closing film
  
Chronicle of My Mother

Hosted by
  
Uhm Ji-wonYe Ji-won

Festival date
  
October 6 to October 14, 2011

The 16th Busan International Film Festival was held from October 6 to October 14, 2011 at the Busan Cinema Center and was hosted by actresses Uhm Ji-won and Ye Ji-won, making it the first year to be hosted by two women.

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The 16th BIFF also marks the first year for Lee Yong-kwan as the festival director after the retirement of its founding director, Kim Dong-ho and is also the first to take place at the Busan Cinema Center which was opened on September 29, 2011.

A total of 307 films from 70 countries were invited to participate in the festival, with 86 world premieres and 39 international premieres. The event had a total audience of 196,177.

Program

† World Premiere†† International Premiere

Awards

  • New Currents Award
  • Mourning - Morteza Farshbaf (Iran)
  • Nino - Loy Arcenas (Philippines)
  • Flash Forward Award
  • LA-BAS - A Criminal Education - Guido Lombardi (Italy)
  • Sonje Award
  • See You Tomorrow - Lee Woo-jung (South Korea)
  • Thug Beram - Venkat Amudhan (India)
  • Special Mention: Bugging Heaven; Listen to Her - Oh Hyun-ju (South Korea)
  • Special Mention: DIY Encouragement - Kohei Yoshino (Japan)
  • BIFF Mecenat Award
  • Sea of Butterfly - Park Bae-il (South Korea)
  • Shoji & Takao - Ide Yoko (Japan)
  • KNN Movie Award
  • Watch Indian Circus - Mangesh Hadawale (India)
  • FIPRESCI Award
  • Mourning - Morteza Farshbaf (Iran)
  • NETPAC Award
  • The King of Pigs - Yeon Sang-ho (South Korea)
  • Busan Cinephile Award
  • The Twin - Gustav Danielsson (Sweden)
  • Citizen Reviewers' Award
  • The Twin - Gustav Danielsson (Sweden)
  • DGK Award
  • Director: Yeon Sang-ho (The King of Pigs') (South Korea)
  • Actor: Ha Hyun-kwan (Beautiful Miss Jin) (South Korea)
  • Actress: Han Song-hee, Hwang Jung-min (Jesus Hospital) (South Korea)
  • CGV Movie Collage Award
  • The King of Pigs - Yeon Sang-ho (South Korea)
  • Asian Filmmaker of the Year
  • Tsui Hark (Hong Kong)
  • Korean Cinema Award
  • Julietta Sichel (Czech Republic)

    • References

    16th Busan International Film Festival Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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