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13th Busan International Film Festival
The 13th Pusan International Film Festival took place on October 2 to 10, 2008 in Busan, South Korea. A total of 315 films from 60 countries were screened at the festival. The event opened with '' The Gift to Stalin'' by Kazakh director Rustem Abdrashev. South Korean Yoon Jong-chan's '' I Am Happy'' closed the festival. The event held 827 screenings and was attended by 198,818 people. Juries New Currents * Anna Karina, Danish-French actress, Head Juror * Samira Makhmalbaf, Iranian director * Santosh Sivan, Indian director *Lee Hwa-si, South Korean actress *Karl Baumgartner, German film producer BIFF Mecenat Award *Ahn Jung-sook, former director of Korean Film Council *Jean-Pierre Rehm, head of Marseille Festival of Documentary Film *Zhang Xian-min, Chinese film professor Sonje Award *Kim-Jho Gwangsoo, Korean film producer *Roger Gonin, French director *Calida Uabumrungjit, Thai project director NETPAC Award *Mohamed Atebbai, Iranian film critic *Jeannette Paulson Hereniko, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Gift To Stalin
''The Gift to Stalin'' is a 2008 joint Kazakhstani/Russian/Polish/Israeli film by Kazakhfilm that tells the story of a little Jewish boy named Sasha who is sent to Kazakhstan. He is saved from death by an old Kazakh man, Kasym, who takes the boy into his home. The film is set in 1949 and is based on the memoirs of Russian Jewish writer David Markish, also portrayed in his trilogy ''A New World for Simon Ashkenazy''. The title, ''The Gift to Stalin'', has two meanings. The first one Sasha’s dream He hopes that if he gives Stalin a gift, he will be able to see his parents again, not knowing that they have been killed. The second context is that in 1949 the Soviet government carried out a nuclear test (RDS-1) on Joseph Stalin’s 70th anniversary.During Stalin's life, his official birth year was 1879. When Sasha visited his Kazakh ''aul'' many years later, he found it destroyed by the nuclear explosion. Awards *2009: Grand Prix at the Busan International Film Festival *2009:Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |