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17th Busan International Film Festival
The 17th Busan International Film Festival was held from October 4 to October 13, 2012 at the Busan Cinema Center and was hosted by Ahn Sung-ki and Chinese actress Tang Wei, who is the first foreign celebrity to host the event. In this year's festival, a total of 304 films from 75 countries was screened, with 93 serving as world premieres and 39 serving as international premieres. The event was attended by more than 10,000 guests from over 60 countries. The 304 films, which includes films from countries such as Japan, India, the Philippines, Thailand, and Indonesia, were played on 37 screens in seven theaters in Busan, including Busan Cinema Center, CGV Centum City, Lotte Cinema Centum City, and Megabox Haeundae. Program :† World premiere :†† International premiere : Opening Film Gala Presentation A Window on Asian Cinema New Currents Korean Cinema Today - Panorama Korean Cinema Today - Vision Korean Cinema Retrospective Shin Young-kyun, the Male Icon of Kor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cold War (2012 Film)
''Cold War'' is a 2012 Hong Kong police thriller film directed by Sunny Luk and Longman Leung, starring Aaron Kwok and Tony Leung Ka-fai, and guest starring Andy Lau. The film was selected as the opening film at the 17th Busan International Film Festival and released in Hong Kong, Macau, and mainland China on 8 November 2012. The film's title, ''Cold War'' (寒戰), is derived from the code name used in the police operation where the plot of the film evolves. The film won nine awards including Best Actor, Best Film, Best Director and Best Screenplay at the 32nd Hong Kong Film Awards. The film has a sequel, known as '' Cold War 2''. Plot One midnight, a Hong Kong Police Force Emergency Unit (EU) van carrying advanced equipment and five police officers goes missing. As the police investigate the case, they became aware that the terrorists possess detailed knowledge of the police's procedures and have planned several steps ahead, even possibly breaching the secured police networ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indonesia
Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guinea. Indonesia is the world's largest archipelagic state and the 14th-largest country by area, at . With over 275 million people, Indonesia is the world's fourth-most populous country and the most populous Muslim-majority country. Java, the world's most populous island, is home to more than half of the country's population. Indonesia is a presidential republic with an elected legislature. It has 38 provinces, of which nine have special status. The country's capital, Jakarta, is the world's second-most populous urban area. Indonesia shares land borders with Papua New Guinea, East Timor, and the eastern part of Malaysia, as well as maritime borders with Singapore, Vietnam, Thailand, the Philippines, Australia, Palau, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hou Hsiao-hsien
Hou Hsiao-hsien (; born 8 April 1947) is a Mainland Chinese-born Taiwanese film director, screenwriter, producer and actor. He is a leading figure in world cinema and in Taiwan's New Wave cinema movement. He won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1989 for his film ''A City of Sadness'' (1989), and the Best Director award at the Cannes Film Festival in 2015 for '' The Assassin'' (2015). Other highly regarded works of his include '' The Puppetmaster'' (1993) and ''Flowers of Shanghai'' (1998). Hou was voted "Director of the Decade" for the 1990s in a poll of American and international critics by '' The Village Voice'' and ''Film Comment''. In a 1998 New York Film Festival worldwide critics' poll, Hou was named "one of the three directors most crucial to the future of cinema." ''A City of Sadness'' ranked 117th in the British Film Institute's 2012 ''Sight & Sound'' critics' poll of the greatest films ever made. In 2017, Metacritic ranked Hsiao-hsien 16th on its list of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Mohsen Makhmalbaf ( fa, محسن مخملباف, ''Mohsen Makhmalbaaf''; born May 29, 1957) is an Iranian film director, writer, film editor, and producer. He has made more than 20 feature films, won some 50 awards and been a juror in more than 15 major film festivals. His award-winning films include '' Kandahar''; his latest documentary is '' The Gardener'' and latest feature '' The President''. Makhmalbaf's films have been widely presented at international film festivals in the past ten years. The director belongs to the new wave movement of Iranian cinema. '' Time'' selected Makhmalbaf's 2001 film '' Kandahar'' as one of the top 100 films of all time. In 2006, he was a member of the Jury at the Venice Film Festival. Makhmalbaf left Iran in 2005 shortly after the election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and has lived in Paris since the events of the 2009 Iranian presidential election. Life Makhmalbaf was born in Tehran on May 29, 1957. At the age of 15, he became involved in a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Gardener (2012 Film)
''The Gardener'' ( fa, باغبان, ''Bāghbān'') is a documentary film by Mohsen Makhmalbaf. It had its Asian premiere at Busan International Film Festival, its European premiere at Rotterdam International Film Festival, and North American premiere at the Vancouver International Film Festival. It is the first film in decades to be made by an Iranian filmmaker in Israel. The film has been shown in more than 20 film festivals and won the Best Documentary award from Beirut International Film Festival and the special Maverick Award at the Motovun Film Festival in Croatia. The film was selected as "Critic's Pick of the Week" by New York Film Critics Circle, "Best of the Fest" at Busan Film Festival by ''The Hollywood Reporter'', and "Top Ten Films" at Mumbai Film Festival by ''Times of India'', and its script was added to the Library of Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Synopsis The film is about an Iranian filmmaker and his son who travel to Israel to learn about the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bahman Ghobadi
Bahman Ghobadi ( fa, بهمن قبادی; ; born 1 February 1969 in Baneh, Kurdistan province, Iran) is an Iranian Kurdish film director, producer and writer. He belongs to the " new wave" of Iranian cinema. Biography He was born in Baneh, a Kurdish city in Iran. His family moved to Sanandaj in 1981. Ghobadi received a Bachelor of Arts in film directing from Iran Broadcasting College. After a brief career in industrial photography, Ghobadi began making short 8 mm films. His documentary ''Life in Fog'' won numerous awards. Bahman Ghobadi was assistant director on Abbas Kiarostami's '' The Wind Will Carry Us''. Bahman Ghobadi founded Mij Film in 2000, a company with the aim of production of films in Iran about its different ethnic groups. His first feature film was '' A Time for Drunken Horses'' (2000), the first Kurdish film produced in Iran. The film won the Caméra d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. His second feature was ''Marooned in Iraq'' (2002), which brought him the Gold ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhino Season
''Rhino Season'' ( fa, فصل کرگدن; ''Fasle Kargadan'') is a 2012 Turkish-Iranian docufiction film directed by Bahman Ghobadi and presented by Martin Scorsese. Starring Behrouz Vossoughi, Monica Bellucci, Yılmaz Erdoğan, Caner Cindoruk, and Arash Labaf. The movie includes poems read and written by Bayan Nassir. The film is based on Iranian Kurdish poet and author Sedigh Kamangar, who spent 27 years imprisoned in Iran while his family was told that he was dead. For many years Sadegh's family cried over a fake grave staged by the Iranian government. Plot Cast * Behrouz Vossoughi as Sahel * Monica Bellucci as Mina * Yilmaz Erdogan as Akbar Rezai * Arash Labaf as Son * Beren Saat as Daughter * Caner Cindoruk as Young Sahel * Belçim Bilgin as Female Pimp Production Reception On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 66 out of 100, based on 6 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews." John DeFoe of ''The Hollywood Reporter ''The Hol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chung Ji-young
Chung Ji-young (born November 19, 1946) is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. Among his most well-known films are '' North Korean Partisan in South Korea'' (1990), ''White Badge'' (1992), ''Life and Death of the Hollywood Kid'' (1994), ''Unbowed'' (2012) and ''National Security'' (2012). Career Chung Ji-young honed his directing skills by working as an assistant director to legendary filmmaker Kim Soo-yong. Chung, whose feature debut was an erotic mystery, ''The Mist Whispers Like a Woman'' (1982), also directed about 20 episodes of the MBC single-episode anthology drama series ''Best Theater''. He spent the majority of the 1980s directing melodramatic fare before moving on to more politically-charged works following the end of the Chun Doo-hwan administration. During his heyday, Chung helmed some of the most hard-hitting and socially conscious films of the 1980s and 1990s such as '' North Korean Partisan in South Korea'' (1990), ''White Badge'' (1992), and ''Life a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Security (2012 Film)
''National Security'' () is a 2012 South Korean prison drama film based on the memoir by Kim Geun-tae, a democracy activist who was kidnapped and tortured by national police inspector Lee Geun-an for 22 days in 1985 during the Chun Doo-hwan regime. Calling the film "the most painful experience in my 30 years as a filmmaker," director Chung Ji-young wanted the audience to reflect on the theme of torture. He said he found the courage to make the film so that Korean viewers will "engage with our sad history and the sacrifices of great people like Kim Geun-tae in a concrete, meaningful way. If we triumph over the past, we can move forward with unity and reconciliation." Plot September 4, 1985. Kim Jong-tae (Park Won-sang), 37, a prominent activist against the military dictatorship of Chun Doo-hwan and onetime commissioner of the Youth Federation for Democracy, is arrested and taken to a special interrogation facility in Namyeong-dong, a district in the center of Seoul synonymous wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeon Soo-il
Jeon Soo-il (born September 25, 1959) is a South Korean film director, film producer and screenwriter. After graduating from the Department of Theatre & Film of Kyungsung University in Busan, he studied Film Direction at Ecole Supérieure de Réalisation Audiovisuelle (E.S.R.A) in France from 1988 to 1992. He completed his master and doctorate degrees in Film Science at the Paris Diderot University in Paris, France. He is currently an associate professor of the Department of Theatre & Film of Kyungsung University and the president of Dongnyuk Film. Filmography Director * 2015: A Korean in Paris * 2012: El Condor Pasa * 2011: Pink * 2008: I Came from Busan (Yeong-do Da-ri) * 2008: Himalaya, Where the Wind Dwells (Himalayaeui sonyowa) * 2007: With a Girl of Black Soil (Geomen tangyi sonyeo oi) * 2006: Time Between Dog and Wolf (Gae oi neckdae sa yiyi chigan) * 2003: My Right to Ravage Myself (Naneun nareul pagoehal gwolliga itda) * 1999: The Bird Who Stops in the Air ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Sung-hong
Kim Sung-hong (김성홍) (born August 7, 1956) is a South Korean film director. Filmography * ''Doctor'' (닥터, Dak teol) (2012) * ''Missing'' (실종, Sil Jong) (2009) * '' Say Yes'' (세이 예스 Sae-yi yaeseu) (2001) * ''A Growing Business'' (신장개업, Shinjang gaeub) (1998) * '' The Hole'' (올가미, Olgami) (1997) * ''Deep Scratch'' (손톱, Sontob) (1994) * ''Teenage Coup'' (열일곱살의 쿠데타 Yeolilgobsaleui coup d'etat) (1991) * ''Well, Let's Look at the Sky Sometimes'' (그래 가끔 하늘을 보자, Geurae gaggeum haneuleul boja) (1990) References External links * Korean Movie Database entry South Korean film directors 1956 births Living people Place of birth missing (living people) {{SouthKorea-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hur Jin-ho
Heo Jin-ho (; born August 8, 1963) is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. Career Heo Jin-ho graduated from Yonsei University with a degree in philosophy and went on to study filmmaking at the Korean Academy of Film Arts. His first steps as a film director did not go unnoticed as his first short, ''For Go-chul'', was selected for the Vancouver International Film Festival. He later co-wrote the script of ''A Single Spark'' and ''Kilimanjaro''. Many of his feature films, ''Christmas in August'' (shown at the International Critics' Week, Critics' Week in Cannes Film Festival, Cannes in 1988 Cannes Film Festival, 1998), ''One Fine Spring Day'' (2001), ''April Snow'' (2005), ''Happiness (2007 film), Happiness'' (2007) and ''A Season of Good Rain, A Good Rain Knows'' (2009) are variations on Hur's favorite theme: love. Film critic Kim Ji-mi says in ''Korean Film Observatory'' magazine (No. 23), Hur "shows the outstanding talent of being able to grasp the sensitive moments of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
