The 20th

Busan International Film Festival The Busan International Film Festival (BIFF, previously Pusan International Film Festival, PIFF), held annually in Haeundae-gu, Busan (''also'' Pusan), South Korea, is one of the most significant film festivals in Asia. The first festiv ...

was held from October 1 to October 10, 2015 at South Korea's Busan Cinema Center and was hosted by

Song Kang-ho Song Kang-ho (born January 17, 1967) is a South Korean actor. Song made his film debut in ''The Day a Pig Fell into the Well'' (1996), and came to national prominence with a series of critically acclaimed performances, including ''No. 3'' (1997) ...

and Marina Golbahari. In this year's festival, a total of 302 films from 75 countries was screened, with 94 serving as world premieres and 31 serving as international premieres. The 302 films, which includes films from countries such as

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, the

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and

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, were played on 35 screens at six theaters in Busan, including

Busan Cinema Center The Busan Cinema Center (also called "Dureraum", meaning enjoying seeing movies all together in Korean) is the official, exclusive venue of the Busan International Film Festival (BIFF), where its opening and closing ceremonies take place, located ...

, CGV Centum City, Lotte Cinema Centum City, Dongseo University Sohyang Theater, Megabox Haeundae and Megabox Busan Theater.

Program

Opening

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Zubaan ''Zubaan'' () is a 2015 Indian musical drama film written and directed by Mozez Singh, starring Vicky Kaushal and Sarah Jane Dias, with music composed by Ashutosh Phatak. The film is the coming of age story of a young boy Dilsher ( Vicky Ka ...

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Gala Presentation

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A Bigger Splash ''A Bigger Splash'' is a large pop art painting by British artist David Hockney. Measuring by , it depicts a swimming pool beside a modern house, disturbed by a large splash of water created by an unseen figure who has apparently just jumped ...

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Luca Guadagnino Luca Guadagnino (; born 10 August 1971) is an Italian film director, producer, and screenwriter. His films are often characterized by their emotional complexities, sensuality and sumptuous visuals. He is also known for his frequent collaboration ...

(Italy) *''Color of Asia - Masters'' -

Wang Xiaoshuai Wang Xiaoshuai (; born May 22, 1966) is a Chinese film director, screenwriter and occasional actor. He is commonly grouped under the loose association of filmmakers known as the "Sixth Generation" of the Cinema of China. Like others in this gener ...

Im Sang-soo Im Sang-soo (born April 27, 1962) is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. He has twice been invited to compete for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, with '' The Housemaid'' in 2010 and ''The Taste of Money'' in 2012. Early li ...

Naomi Kawase is a Japanese film director. She was also known as , with her former husband's surname. Many of her works have been documentaries, including ''Embracing'', about her search for the father who abandoned her as a child, and ''Katatsumori'', about ...

Apichatpong Weerasethakul Apichatpong Weerasethakul ( th, อภิชาติพงศ์ วีระเศรษฐกุล; ; ) is a Thai independent film director, screenwriter, and film producer. Working outside the strict confines of the Thai film studio system, ...

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Mountains May Depart ''Mountains May Depart'' () is a 2015 Mandarin-language drama and the 8th feature film directed by Jia Zhangke. It competed for the Palme d'Or at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. and was also selected to be shown in the Special Presentations secti ...

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Jia Zhangke Jia Zhangke ( zh, c=贾樟柯, p=Jiǎ Zhāngkē, born 24 May 1970) .He is a Chinese-language film and television director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and writer. He is the dean of the Shanxi Film Academy of Shanxi Media College and the dea ...

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Our Little Sister is a 2015 Japanese drama film directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda and based on Akimi Yoshida's manga series '' Umimachi Diary''. It stars Haruka Ayase, Masami Nagasawa, Kaho and Suzu Hirose. The film follows three sisters living in Kamakura, alongsid ...

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Hirokazu Koreeda is a Japanese film director, producer, screenwriter, and editor. He began his career in television and has since directed more than a dozen feature films, including '' Nobody Knows'' (2004), '' Still Walking'' (2008), and '' After the Storm'' ( ...

(Japan) *'' The Assassin'' -

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 ...

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Un plus une ''Un plus une'' ("One plus one", with the 'one's being grammatically masculine and feminine respectively) is a 2015 French romantic comedy film directed by Claude Lelouch and starring Jean Dujardin, Elsa Zylberstein, Christopher Lambert, and A ...

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Claude Lelouch Claude Barruck Joseph Lelouch (; born 30 October 1937) is a French film director, screenwriter, writer, cinematographer, actor and film producer, producer. Lelouch grew up in an Algerian Jewish Family. He emerged as a prominent director in the 1 ...

(France)

A Window on Asian Cinema

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3000 Nights ''3000 Nights'' is a 2015 internationally co-produced drama film directed by Mai Masri. It was screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. The film focuses on a Palestinian woman, who whils ...

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Mai Masri Mai Masri ( ar, مي المصري; born April 2, 1959) is a Palestinian filmmaker, director and producer. Her films are primarily documentaries which focus on the real life struggles of the women and children living in the occupied Palestinian te ...

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Royston Tan Royston Tan (; born 5 October 1976) is a Singaporean filmmaker, director, screenwriter, producer and actor. Tan is a graduate from Temasek Polytechnic, where he studied Visual Communications. He first came into prominence through his short film ...

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7 Letters ''7 Letters'' is a 2015 Singaporean anthology drama film directed by seven different directors. It comprises seven short stories celebrating Singapore's 50th anniversary. The film was selected as the Singaporean entry for the Best Foreign Langu ...

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Tan Pin Pin Tan Pin Pin (, born 1969) is a Singapore-based film director. She is best known for the documentary film ''Singapore GaGa'' (2005). It was the first Singaporean documentary to have a theatrical run. In 2014, her documentary ''To Singapore, With ...

, Boo Junfeng,

Kelvin Tong Kelvin Tong Weng Kian (Simplified Chinese: 唐永健) is a Singaporean film director, screenwriter and producer. He was a former film critic for ''the Straits Times''. Career Kelvin's passion for theatre and filmmaking began in his secondary sch ...

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Jack Neo Jack Neo (born 24 January 1960) is a Singaporean actor, television host, comedian and film director. He was prominently a full-time Mediacorp artiste from 1983 to 2003. In the 1990s and early 2000s, he was best known for his cross-dressing roles ...

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A Copy of My Mind ''A Copy of My Mind'' is a 2015 Indonesian drama film written and directed by Joko Anwar. A low-budget co-production between Indonesia and South Korea, the film stars Tara Basro and Chicco Jerikho. At the 35th Citra Awards, the film received sev ...

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Joko Anwar Joko Anwar (born 3 January 1976) is an Indonesian film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor. Prior to becoming a filmmaker, he worked as a journalist and film critic. Anwar first rose to prominence for co-writing Nia Dinata's 2003 hit ' ...

(Indonesia) *''A Flag without a Country'' -

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 K ...

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A Tale of Three Cities ''A Tale of Three Cities'' () is a 2015 Chinese-Hong Kong war romance film directed by Mabel Cheung. The film is about the real love story of two people (Charles and Lee-Lee Chan, parents of Jackie Chan) who met in Wuhu during the Second Sino-Ja ...

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Mabel Cheung Mabel Cheung (, born 17 November 1950) is a film director from Hong Kong. She is one of the leading directors in Hong Kong cinema and is considered one of the three women (along with Ann Hui and Clara Law) to achieve acclaim in the New Wave/Se ...

(China) *''Afternoon'' -

Tsai Ming-liang Tsai Ming-liang (; born 27 October 1957) is a Malaysian-Taiwanese filmmaker. Tsai has written and directed 11 feature films, many short films, and television films. He is one of the most celebrated "Second New Wave" film directors of Taiwanese ...

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Aligarh Aligarh (; formerly known as Allygarh, and Kol) is a city in the state of Uttar Pradesh in India. It is the administrative headquarters of Aligarh district, and lies northwest of state capital Lucknow and approximately southeast of the capita ...

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Hansal Mehta Hansal Mehta (born 29 April 1968) is an Indian filmmaker. He started his career with television show ''Khana Khazana'' (1993–2000) and later moved on to directing films like ''Dil Pe Mat Le Yaar!!'' (2000), ''Yeh Kya Ho Raha Hai?'' (2002) and ...

(India) *''Avalanche'' - Morteza Farshbaf (Iran) *''Bad Guys Always Die'' - Sun Hao (China/Korea) *''Being Good'' - Mipo O (Japan) *'' Big Father, Small Father and Other Stories'' - Phan Dang Di (Vietnam/France/Germany/Netherlands) *''Blanka'' - Hasei Kohki (Italy/Philippines/Japan) *''

Cemetery of Splendour ''Cemetery of Splendour'' ( th, Rak Ti Khon Kaen) is a 2015 Thai drama film written, produced, and directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul. The plot revolves around a spreading epidemic of sleeping sickness where spirits appear to the stricken and ...

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(Thailand/United Kingdom/France/Germany/Malaysia/Korea/Mexico/United States/Norway) *''Chaotic Love Poems'' -

Garin Nugroho Garin Nugroho Riyanto (born 6 June 1961) is an Indonesian film director. Biography Nugroho was born in Yogyakarta, Special Region of Yogyakarta on 6 June 1961. He was the fourth child of postal workers Soetjipto Amin and Mariah, who eventually ...

(Indonesia) *''Dark in the White Light'' -

Vimukthi Jayasundara Kala Keerthi Vimukthi Jayasundara ( si, විමුක්ති ජයසුන්දර) is a Sri Lankan filmmaker, critic and a visual artist. Jayasundara is the first Sri Lankan to win the Caméra d'Or, in 2005. Life and career Vimukthi Jay ...

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Ever Since We Love ''Ever Since We Love'' is a 2015 Chinese film directed by Li Yu based on one of the stories in the 2001 Chinese novel ''Everything Grows'' by Feng Tang (the Chinese title is the same as the novel). The film was released on April 17, 2015. Like Li ...

'' - Li Yu (China) *''Farewell, Berlin Wall'' - Nguyen Phan Quang Binh (Vietnam/Germany) *''Guilty'' -

Meghna Gulzar Meghna Gulzar is an Indian writer, director and producer. She is best known for directing of Bollywood film Raazi in 2018. After debuting as a screenwriter with her father's 1999 directorial ''Hu Tu Tu'', Meghna directed her first film, th ...

(India) *'' In the Room'' -

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Journey to the Shore is a 2015 Japanese romantic drama film directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, starring Tadanobu Asano and Eri Fukatsu. It is adapted from Kazumi Yumoto's novel ''Kishibe no Tabi''. It screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2015 Cannes Film Fe ...

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Kiyoshi Kurosawa is a Japanese film director, screenwriter, film critic and a professor at Tokyo University of the Arts. Although he has worked in a variety of genres, Kurosawa is best known for his many contributions to the Japanese horror genre, his honorific ...

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Kothanodi ''Kothanodi'' ( as, কথানদী, ) is an Indian Assamese language feature film written and directed by Bhaskar Hazarika and stars Seema Biswas, Adil Hussain, Zerifa Wahid, Urmila Mahanta, Kopil Bora and Asha Bordoloi. The story of the fil ...

'' - Bhaskar Hazarika (India) *'' Leopard Do Not Bite'' -

Prasanna Jayakody Prasanna Jayakody (In Sinhalese: ප්‍රසන්න ජයකොඩි) is a Sri Lankan film director and screenwriter, internationally recognized for his cinematic accomplishments in contemporary Sri Lankan cinema. His movies primarily ...

(Sri Lanka) *''Looking for Rohmer'' - Wang Chao (China/France) *''

Masaan ''Masaan'' (; also known as ''Fly Away Solo'' in English) is a 2015 Indian Hindi-language independent drama film and starring Richa Chadda and Vicky Kaushal in lead roles. It is Kaushal's debut Hindi film, and is also the directorial debut of ...

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Neeraj Ghaywan Neeraj Ghaywan is an Indian film director and writer who works in Hindi films. He is the winner of several accolades including a National film Award and two Filmfare Awards. Ghaywan assisted filmmaker Anurag Kashyap on ''Gangs of Wasseypur ...

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Murmur of the Hearts ''Murmur of the Hearts'' () is a 2015 Hong Kong-Taiwanese romantic drama film directed by Sylvia Chang. It was released on April 10, 2015 in Taiwan and April 30, 2015 in China. It was screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section of the 2015 T ...

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Sylvia Chang Sylvia Chang (born 21 July 1953) is a Taiwanese actress, writer, singer, producer and director. In 1992, she was a member of the jury at the 42nd Berlin International Film Festival. In 2018, she was one of the jury members of the main competition ...

(Taiwan/Hong Kong, China) *'' Nahid'' - Ida Panahandeh (Iran) *''

O Kadhal Kanmani ''O Kadhal Kanmani'' (), also known as ''OK Kanmani'', is a 2015 Indian Tamil-language romantic comedy film written, directed and produced by Mani Ratnam. The film stars Dulquer Salmaan and Nithya Menen, portraying a young couple in a live-in r ...

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Mani Ratnam Gopala Ratnam Subramaniam (born 2 June 1956), known professionally as Mani Ratnam, is an Indian film director, screenwriter, and producer who predominantly works in Tamil cinema and few Hindi, Telugu and Kannada films. Ratnam has won six Nat ...

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(China/Hong Kong, China) *'' Orange Candy'' -

Biju Viswanath Biju Viswanath is an Indian film director, director of photography, film editor and screenwriter. Across various genres, he has made numerous films in different languages, notably, English, Tamil, Malayalam, Irish, Swahili & Urdu. He has also ...

(India) *''Paradise'' - Sina Dena Ataeian (Iran/Germany) *''Paths of the Soul'' - Zhang Yang (China) *''Peace Haven'' - Suman Ghosh (India) *'' Pink and Gray'' -

Isao Yukisada is a Japanese film director from Kumamoto. He served as assistant director on Shunji Iwai's ''Love Letter'', ''April Story'', and '' Swallowtail Butterfly''. Filmography Director * ''Open House'' (1998) * (Sunflower) (2000) * ''A Closing Day'' ...

(Japan) *''Sentence Me Guilty'' - Sun Liang (China) *''

Taklub ''Trap'' ( tl, Taklub) is a 2015 Filipino drama film directed by Brillante Mendoza and starring Nora Aunor, Julio Diaz, Lou Veloso and Aaron Rivera. ''Taklub'' centers on the survivors in the aftermath of the Super Typhoon Haiyan that devastate ...

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Brillante Mendoza Brillante "Dante" Mendoza (born 30 July 1960) is a Filipino independent filmmaker. Mendoza is known one of the key members associated with the Filipino New Wave. Career He was born and raised in San Fernando, Pampanga. He took advertising ...

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Jafar Panahi Jafar Panâhi ( fa, جعفر پناهی, ; born 11 July 1960) is an Iranian film director, screenwriter, and film editor, commonly associated with the Iranian New Wave film movement. After several years of making short films and working as an ass ...

(Iran) *''Tharlo'' - Pema Tseden (China) *''The Black Hen'' - Min Bahadur Bham (Nepal/France/Germany) *'' The Idol'' -

Hany Abu-Assad Hany Abu-Assad ( ar, هاني أبو أسعد; born 11 October 1961) is a Palestinian-Dutch film director. He has received two Academy Award nominations: in 2006 for his film ''Paradise Now'', and again in 2013 for his film ''Omar''. Early life ...

(United Kingdom/Palestine/Qatar/Netherlands/United Arab Emirates) *''The Long Farewell'' - Farzad Motamen (Iran) *''The Mad King of Taipei'' - Nelson Yeh (Taiwan) *''The Man Who Became a Horse'' - Amir Hossein Saghafi (Iran) *''The Sea and the Flying Fish'' - Mehrdad Ghafarzadeh (Iran) *''The Virgin Psychics'' -

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(Japan) *''Three Stories of Love'' -

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(Japan) *''Toll Bar'' - Zhassulan Poshanov (Kazakhstan) *''Underground Fragrance'' - Pengfei (France/China) *''Undertone'' - Li Ruiqi (China) *'' Zinnia Flower'' - Lin Shu-yu (Taiwan)

New Currents

*''Black Horse Memories'' - Shahram Alidi (Iran/Turkey) *''Communication & Lies'' - Lee Seung-won (Korea) *''Go Home'' - Jihane Chouaib (France/Switzerland/Belgium/Lebanon) *''

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Seyed Hadi Mohaghegh Seyed Hadi Mohaghegh ( fa, سید هادی محقق; born 1979) is an Iranian film director and screenwriter. Career Born in Dehdasht, Iran, in 1979, Mohaghegh studied Automobile Mechanics. He began his artistic career in 1990 as a theatre act ...

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Night and Fog in Zona ''Night and Fog in Zona'' () is a 2015 South Korean documentary film directed by Jung Sung-il. The cine-essay follows the renowned Chinese filmmaker Wang Bing as he works on two of his projects, '' 'Til Madness Do Us Part'' (2013) and ''Alone'' (2 ...

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Jung Sung-il Jung Sung-il (October 21, 1969) is a South Korean retired competitive figure skater. He is the 1991 Winter Universiade silver medalist. He placed as high as sixth at the World Junior Championships (1988) and 14th at the World Championships ...

(Korea) *''Radio Set'' - Hari Viswanath (India) *''

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'' - Yerlan Nurmukhambetov (Kazakhstan) *''West North West'' - Nakamura Takuro (Japan)

Korean Cinema Today - Panorama

*''Fourth Place'' -

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(Korea) *''A Break Alone'' -

Cho Jae-hyun Cho Jae-hyun (born June 30, 1965) is a South Korean film, stage, and TV actor. He is commonly dubbed "director Kim Ki-duk's persona" since Cho has starred as leading and supporting characters in a number of films directed by Kim. Early years a ...

(Korea) *'' A Korean in Paris'' -

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 ...

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Choi Dong-hoon Choi Dong-hoon (; born February 24, 1971) is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. He ranks as one of the most consistently successful directors working in contemporary Korean cinema, with all five of his films becoming commercial hits - ...

(Korea) *''Circle of Atonement'' - Park Eun-gyoung, Lee Dong-ha (Korea) *'' Love and...'' - Zhang Lu (Korea) *''

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Shin Su-won Shin Su-won (born 1967) is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. Shin wrote and directed ''Passerby #3'' (2010), ''Pluto (2013 film), Pluto'' (2013) and ''Madonna (2015 film), Madonna'' (2015). Her short film ''Circle Line'' won the Cana ...

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Ode to My Father ''Ode to My Father'' (; "Gukje (International) Market") is a 2014 South Korean drama film directed by Yoon Je-kyoon. Starring Hwang Jung-min and Yunjin Kim, it depicts South Korean history from the 1950s to the present day through the life of a ...

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Yoon Je-kyoon Yoon Je-kyun (born 1969) is a South Korean film director . His debut ''My Boss, My Hero'' is about a gangster who is sent back to school, while ''Sex Is Zero'' has been compared with ''American Pie (film), American Pie''. However, his disaster ...

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'' - Hong Won-chan (Korea) * ''One Way Trip'' - Choi Jeong-yeol (Korea) *''Ordinary People'' - Kim Byung-June (Korea) *''Proj. Get-up-and-go'' - Lee Keun-woo (Korea) *''

Right Now, Wrong Then ''Right Now, Wrong Then'' () is a 2015 South Korean film written and directed by Hong Sang-soo. It won the Golden Leopard, the top prize at the 68th Locarno International Film Festival, as well as Best Actor for Jung Jae-young. Plot Part 1 An arth ...

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Hong Sang-soo Hong Sang-soo (홍상수, born 25 October 1960) is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. Early life Hong's parents owned the film production company Cinetel Soul. Hong took the entrance exam and entered the theater department at Chun ...

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The Classified File ''The Classified File'' () is a 2015 South Korean crime drama film directed by Kwak Kyung-taek based on a real-life 33-day kidnapping case in Busan in 1978. It stars Kim Yoon-seok and Yoo Hae-jin in the lead roles. Plot A young girl named Eun-joo ...

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Kwak Kyung-taek Kwak Kyung-taek (; born 23 May 1966) is a South Korean film director best known for his 2001 record-breaking film ''Friend''. Career ''Friend'', a drama where conflicting criminal alliances turn old friends into enemies, set a new Korean box ...

(Korea) *'' The Piper'' - Kim Gwang-tae (Korea) *''

The Royal Tailor ''The Royal Tailor'' () is a 2014 South Korean period film directed by Lee Won-suk, and starring Han Suk-kyu, Go Soo, Park Shin-hye and Yoo Yeon-seok. It tells the story of a rivalry between two tailors at the Sanguiwon, where the attire worn by ...

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Lee Won-suk Lee Won-suk (born 9 January 1974) is a South Korean film director. Lee acted as the assistant director on the South Korean omnibus film ''Five Senses of Eros'' (2009), before releasing his filmmaking debut, the romantic comedy '' How to Use Guy ...

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The Shameless ''The Shameless'' (; lit. "A Thug" or "A Rogue") is a 2015 South Korean film starring Kim Nam-gil and Jeon Do-yeon. It is written and directed by Oh Seung-uk, who described it as a "hardboiled romantic noir thriller. ''The Shameless'' made its ...

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The Silenced ''The Silenced'' (; lit. ''Gyeongseong School: The Lost Girls'') is a 2015 South Korean mystery- thriller film written and directed by Lee Hae-young, starring Park Bo-young and Uhm Ji-won. Plot Set in Gyeongseong in 1938 during the Japanese occu ...

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Lee Hae-young Lee Hae-young (born 1973) is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. Lee wrote and directed his debut feature '' Like a Virgin'' (2006) (with director Lee Hae-jun), which won several awards for Best New Director and Best Screenplay. His f ...

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'' - Lee Byeong-heon (Korea) *'' The Unfair'' - Kim Sung-je (Korea) *''Twenty Again'' - Park Heung-sik (Korea) *''Two Rooms, Two Nights'' - David Cho (Korea) *''

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Ryoo Seung-wan Ryoo Seung-wan (born December 15, 1973) is a South Korean film director. Early life Ryoo Seung-wan was born in 1973 in Onyang, a small town in South Chungcheong Province. With the choice of domestic films mostly limited to propaganda and hostes ...

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Korean Cinema Today - Vision

*''ALONE'' - Park Hong-min (Korea) *''Another Night'' - Choi Yong-suk (Korea) *'' Another Way'' - Cho Chang-ho (Korea) *''Blossom'' - Kim Jin-do (Korea) *''

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O Muel O Muel (born Oh Kyung-heon in 1971) is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. He wrote and directed the award-winning film '' Jiseul'' in 2012. Career O Muel was born and raised on Jeju Island, and studied Korean painting at Jeju N ...

(Korea) *''Girl on the Edge'' (aka ''School Girl'') - Park Geun-buem (Korea) *''Overman'' - Seo Eun-young (Korea) *''Recording'' - Park Min-kook (Korea) *'' Steel Flower'' - Park Suk-young (Korea) *''The Battle of Gwangju'' - Lee Ji-sang (Korea) *'' The Boys Who Cried Wolf'' - Kim Jin-hwang (Korea)

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Hidden Masterpieces of the 1960s

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Lee Yong-min Lee Yong-min (1916 – April 26, 1983) is a South Korean film director, screenwriter and cinematographer. Lee studied filmmaking in Japan and debuted with a documentary film ''The Topography of Jeju island'' (1946). He made audience friendly com ...

(Korea) *''The Body Confession'' - Jo Keung-ha (Korea) *''The Cash Is Mine'' - Lee Sang-eon (Korea) *''The DMZ'' - Park Sang-ho (Korea) *''The Door of the Body'' - Lee Bong-rae (Korea) *''The General's Mustache'' - Lee Sung-gu (Korea) *''Trees Stand on Slope'' -

Choi Ha-won Choi Ha-won ( 최하원, born 19 August 1937) is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. He directed 25 films between 1968 and 1990. Selected filmography * '' The Old Jar Craftsman'' (1969) * '' Invited People'' (1981) References ...

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Jerzy Skolimowski Jerzy Skolimowski (, born 5 May 1938) is a Polish film director, screenwriter, dramatist and actor. A graduate of the prestigious National Film School in Łódź, Skolimowski has directed more than twenty films since his 1960 début ''Oko wykol' ...

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Aferim! ''Aferim!'' ('' en, Bravo!'') is a 2015 Romanian drama film directed by Radu Jude and produced by Ada Solomon. It was screened in the main competition section of the 65th Berlin International Film Festival where Radu Jude won the Silver Bear for ...

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Radu Jude Radu Jude (; born 28 March 1977) is a Romanian film director and screenwriter. Biography In 2003, Jude graduated from the Film Directing Department of the Media University of Bucharest. He worked as an assistant director for feature films inclu ...

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Marco Bellocchio Marco Bellocchio (; born 9 November 1939) is an Italian film director, screenwriter, and actor. Life and career Born in Bobbio, near Piacenza, Marco Bellocchio had a strict Catholic upbringing – his father was a lawyer, his mother a schooltea ...

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Małgorzata Szumowska Małgorzata Szumowska (; born 26 February 1973) is a Polish film director, screenwriter and producer, born in Kraków. Her 2013 film '' In the Name Of'' received the Teddy Award for Best Feature at the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival, an ...

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Michel Franco Michel Franco (born 28 August 1979) is a Mexican film director, screenwriter and producer. He is best known for his film '' After Lucia'' that won the Prize Un Certain Regard at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. His films typically deal with the ...

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Dheepan ''Dheepan'' is a 2015 French crime drama film directed by Jacques Audiard and co-written by Audiard, Thomas Bidegain, and Noé Debré. The film was partly inspired by Montesquieu's ''Persian Letters'', as well as the 1971 film '' Straw Dogs'', w ...

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Jacques Audiard Jacques Audiard (; born 30 April 1952) is a French film director, producer, and screenwriter. He is the son of Michel Audiard, also a film director and screenwriter. He has won both the César Award for Best Film and the BAFTA Award for Best Fi ...

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Ciro Guerra Ciro Guerra (born 6 February 1981) is a Colombian film director and screenwriter. He is best known for his 2015 film ''Embrace of the Serpent'', the film was nominated for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Best Foreign Language Film ...

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Freeheld ''Freeheld'' is a 2015 American drama film directed by Peter Sollett and written by Ron Nyswaner. The film stars Julianne Moore, Elliot Page, Michael Shannon, Steve Carell, and Luke Grimes. It is based on the 2007 documentary short film of the ...

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Peter Sollett Peter Sollett (born January 1, 1976) is an American film director and screenwriter known for his feature films '' Raising Victor Vargas'' (2002) and '' Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist'' (2008). Early life Sollett was born in Bensonhurst, Brook ...

(United States) *''

In the Shadow of Women ''In the Shadow of Women'' (french: L'Ombre des femmes) is a 2015 French-Swiss drama film directed by Philippe Garrel, starring Clotilde Courau, Stanislas Merhar, and Lena Paugam. It was selected to open the Directors' Fortnight section at the 20 ...

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Philippe Garrel Philippe Garrel (; born 6 April 1948) is a French director, cinematographer, screenwriter, film editor, and producer, associated with the French New Wave movement. His films have won him awards at Cannes Film Festival and Venice Film Festival. ...

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Into the Forest ''Into the Forest'' is a 2015 Canadian apocalyptic independent drama film, written and directed by Patricia Rozema, based on the 1996 Jean Hegland book and starring Elliot Page and Evan Rachel Wood as orphaned survivalist sisters in a forest w ...

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Patricia Rozema Patricia Rozema (born 20 August 1958) is a Canadian film director, writer and producer. She was part of a loosely-affiliated group of filmmakers to emerge in 1980s from Toronto known as the Toronto New Wave. Early life Rozema was born in King ...

(Canada) *'' Jailbirds'' - Audrey Estrougo (France) *''King of Life'' - Jerzy Zieliński (Poland) *'' Last Cab To Darwin'' -

Jeremy Sims Jeremy Hartley Sims (born 10 January 1966) is an Australian actor and director. Career Jeremy Sims was born in Perth, Western Australia in 1966, and was educated at Wesley College 1977–83. His first appearance on the big screen was as 'boy on ...

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Joachim Trier Joachim Trier () (born 1 March 1974) is a Danish-born Norwegian film director, best known for ''Oslo, August 31st'' (2011), ''Louder Than Bombs'' (2015), ''Thelma'' (2017), and '' The Worst Person in the World'' (2021). For the latter film, he ...

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Julio Medem Julio Medem Lafont (born 21 October 1958) is a Basque film director, producer, editor, and screenwriter. Biography Medem was born on 21 October 1958 in San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain and showed an interest in movies since childhood, when ...

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My Golden Days ''My Golden Days'' (french: Trois souvenirs de ma jeunesse), also titled ''My Golden Years'', is a 2015 French drama film directed by Arnaud Desplechin. It stars Quentin Dolmaire, Lou Roy-Lecollinet, and Mathieu Amalric. It is a prequel to the ...

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Arnaud Desplechin Arnaud Desplechin (; born 31 October 1960) is a French film director and screenwriter. In 2016, he won the César Award for Best Director for ''My Golden Days'' (2015). Life and career Desplechin was born in Roubaix. He is the son of Robert and ...

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Alejandro Amenábar Alejandro Fernando Amenábar Cantos (born March 31, 1972) is a Spanish-Chilean film director, screenwriter and composer. He has won nine Goya Award for Best Director, Goyas—including a Goya Award for Best Director for his 2001 film ''The Othe ...

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Denis Villeneuve Denis Villeneuve (; born October 3, 1967) is a Canadian filmmaker. He is a four-time recipient of the Canadian Screen Award (formerly Genie Award) for Best Direction, winning for '' Maelström'' in 2001, '' Polytechnique'' in 2009, ''Incendies ...

(United States) *'' Sleeping Giant'' -

Andrew Cividino Andrew Cividino (born 1983) is a Canadian film director and screenwriter."Big buzz at Cannes for Canadian auteur's coming-of-age yarn". ''Montreal Gazette'', May 22, 2015. He is best known for his feature film directorial debut '' Sleeping Giant' ...

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Son of Saul ''Son of Saul'' ( hu, Saul fia) is a 2015 Hungarian historical drama film directed by László Nemes, in his feature directorial debut, and co-written by Nemes and Clara Royer. It is set in the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II, a ...

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László Nemes László Nemes (born Nemes Jeles László; ; 18 February 1977) is a Hungarian film director and screenwriter. His 2015 debut feature film, ''Son of Saul,'' was screened in the main competition at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the ...

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Catherine Corsini Catherine Corsini (born 18 May 1956) is a French film director, screenwriter and actress. Her film ''Replay (2001 film), Replay'' was entered into the 2001 Cannes Film Festival. Her 2012 film ''Three Worlds (film), Three Worlds'' competed in the ...

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Matteo Garrone Matteo Garrone (born 15 October 1968) is an Italians, Italian filmmaker. Born in Rome, the son of a theatre critic, Nico Garrone and a photographer, in 1996 Garrone won the ''Sacher d'Oro'', an award sponsored by Nanni Moretti, with the short fi ...

(Italy/France) *''

Tangerine The tangerine is a type of citrus fruit that is orange in color. Its scientific name varies. It has been treated as a separate species under the name ''Citrus tangerina'' or ''Citrus'' × ''tangerina'', or treated as a variety of ''Citrus retic ...

'' - Sean S. Baker (United States) *''

Tess Tess or TESS may refer to: Music * Tess (band), a Spanish pop band active from 2000 to 2005 * TESS (musician), a UK musician Film and theatre * ''Tess'' (1979 film), a 1979 film adaptation of '' Tess of the d'Urbervilles'' * ''Tess'' (2016 film) ...

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Roman Polanski Raymond Roman Thierry Polański , group=lower-alpha, name=note_a (né Liebling; 18 August 1933) is a French-Polish film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor. He is the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, two ...

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The 33 ''The 33'' ( es, Los 33) is a 2015 biographical disaster-survival drama film directed by Patricia Riggen and written by Mikko Alanne, Craig Borten, Michael Thomas, and José Rivera. The film is based on the real events of the 2010 Copiapó mi ...

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Patricia Riggen Patricia Riggen (born June 2, 1970) is a Mexican film director. She is best known for directing the 2007 film ''Under the Same Moon'' and the 2011 Disney Channel original film ''Lemonade Mouth''. Early life and career beginnings Riggen was born ...

(United States) *'' The Apostate'' -

Federico Veiroj Federico Veiroj (born 1976 in Montevideo) is a Uruguayan film director, screenwriter, producer, and actor. Veiroj studied Communications at the UCUDAL. Two of his films have been List of Uruguayan submissions for the Academy Award for Best Interna ...

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The Brand New Testament ''The Brand New Testament'' (french: Le Tout Nouveau Testament) is a 2015 fantasy dark comedy film written, produced, and directed by Jaco Van Dormael. It is a co-production among Belgium, France, and Luxembourg. The film was screened at the D ...

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Jaco Van Dormael Jaco Van Dormael (born 9 February 1957) is a Belgian film director, screenwriter and playwright. His films especially focus on a respectful and sympathetic portrayal of people with mental and physical disabilities. Van Dormael spent his childh ...

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Pavel Giroud Pavel Giroud (born 1973) is a Cuban film director based in Madrid, Spain. Career Giroud studied design and graduated from the Instituto Superior de Diseño (High Institute of Design) in 1994. He worked for a short period of time as a designer an ...

(Cuba/Colombia/France/Panama/Venezuela) *''

Braqueurs ''The Crew'' (french: Braqueurs) is a 2015 French action thriller film directed and co-written by Julien Leclercq. The film is about a Parisian heist crew led by Yanis Zeri ( Sami Bouajila) which specializes in well-planned robberies of armoured ...

'' - Julien Leclercq (France) *'' The Daughter'' -

Simon Stone Simon Stone (born 19 August 1984) is an Australian film and theatre director, writer and actor. Early life Stone is Australian, but was born in Basel and grew up in Cambridge and Melbourne. His father, Stuart Stone, was a biochemist and his mot ...

(Australia) *'' The Dressmaker'' -

Jocelyn Moorhouse Jocelyn Denise Moorhouse (born 4 September 1960) is an Australian screenwriter and film director. She has directed films such as ''Proof (1991 film), Proof'', ''How to Make an American Quilt'', ''A Thousand Acres (film), A Thousand Acres'' and ...

(Australia) *''

The Endless River ''The Endless River'' is the fifteenth studio album by the English rock band Pink Floyd, released in November 2014 by Parlophone Records in Europe and Columbia Records in the rest of the world. It was the third Pink Floyd album recorded under ...

'' - Oliver Hermanus (South Africa/France) *'' The Final Lesson'' - Pascale Pouzadoux (France) *''

The High Sun ''The High Sun'' ( hr, Zvizdan) is a 2015 Croatian drama film directed by Dalibor Matanić. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival winning the Jury Prize. It is the first Croatian film to be screened at ...

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Dalibor Matanić Dalibor Matanić (, born 21 January 1975) is a Croatian filmmaker. His most well-known film is the 2002 feature '' Fine Dead Girls'' which won the Special Jury Prize at the 2003 Sochi film festival. His 2015 film '' The High Sun'' was screened ...

(Croatia/Slovenia/Serbia) *''

The Kind Words ''The Kind Words'' ( he, המילים הטובות) is a 2015 Israeli drama film directed by Shemi Zarhin. It was nominated for Best Film at the 2015 Ophir Awards. It was screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section of the 2015 Toronto Int ...

'' - Shemi Zarhin - (Israel/Canada) *''

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Yorgos Lanthimos Georgios "Yorgos" Lanthimos ( el, Γιώργος Λάνθιμος, Giórgos Lánthimos, ; born 23 September 1973) is a Greek film director, film producer, screenwriter, photographer, theatre director and former professional basketball player. Sin ...

(United Kingdom/Greece/Ireland) *'' The Measure of a Man'' - Stéphane Brizé (France) *'' The People vs. Fritz Bauer'' - Lars Kraume (Germany) *''

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Bruno Podalydès Bruno Podalydès (born 11 March 1961) is a French writer, film director, producer and actor. His brother Denis Podalydès Denis Podalydès (born 22 April 1963) is a French actor and scriptwriter of Greek descent. Podalydès has appeared in more ...

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The Very Private Life of Mister Sim ''The Very Private Life of Mister Sim'' (original title: ''La Vie très privée de Monsieur Sim''; also known as ''The Terrible Privacy of Mr. Sim'') is a 2015 French comedy-drama film directed by Michel Leclerc and starring Jean-Pierre Bacri. It ...

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Michel Leclerc Michel Leclerc (born 24 April 1965) is a French director and screenwriter. Career During the 1990s, Leclerc worked as a TV editor and cameraman. He also wrote and directed a number of shorts. For years, he was a columnist on television shows su ...

(France) *''The Weather Inside'' - Isabelle Stever (Germany) *'' Truman'' -

Cesc Gay Francesc Gay Puig (born 1967), better known as Cesc Gay, is a Spanish film screenwriter and film director. Biography Francesc Gay Puig was born in Barcelona in 1967. His 2015 film '' Truman'' won Goya Awards for Best Picture, Best Director, Best ...

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Urban Hymn ''Urban Hymn'' is a 2015 British coming-of-age drama directed by Michael Caton-Jones, written by Nick Moorcroft, and starring Letitia Wright, Shirley Henderson, Isabella Laughland, Ian Hart, and starring Steven Mackintosh. Premise Set against ...

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Michael Caton-Jones Michael Caton-Jones (born Michael Jones; 15 October 1957) is a Scottish Film director, director and Film producer, producer of film and television. His credits include the World War II film ''Memphis Belle (film), Memphis Belle'' (1990), the r ...

(United Kingdom) *''

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Paddy Breathnach Paddy Breathnach (born 1964) is an Irish film director and producer. He directed ''Man About Dog'', ''Blow Dry'' and ''Shrooms (film), Shrooms''. He was also involved in the production of ''The Mighty Celt'' and ''Ape (2012 film), Ape''. Filmog ...

(Ireland) *''Winter Song'' -

Otar Iosseliani Otar Iosseliani ( ka, ოთარ იოსელიანი, born 2 February 1934) is a Georgian-born film director. He was born in the Georgian capital city of Tbilisi, where he studied at the Tbilisi State Conservatoire and graduated in 1952 ...

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Paolo Sorrentino Paolo Sorrentino (; born 31 May 1970) is an Italian film director, screenwriter, and writer. His 2013 film ''The Great Beauty'' won the Academy Award, the Golden Globe, and the Bafta Award for Best Foreign Language Film. In Italy he was honoure ...

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Flash Forward

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As I Open My Eyes ''As I Open My Eyes'' (french: À peine j'ouvre les yeux) is a 2015 French-Tunisian drama film directed by Leyla Bouzid. It was screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. Baya Medhaffar st ...

'' - Leyla Bouzid (France/Tunisia/Belgium/United Arab Emirates) *'' Babai'' - Visar Morina (Germany/Kosovo/Macedonia/France) *''Banat'' - Adriano Valerio (Italy/Bulgaria/Macedonia/Romania) *''Chicken'' - Joe Stephenson (United Kingdom) *''Clever'' - Federico Borgia, Guillermo Madeiro (Uruguay) *'' Closet Monster'' -

Stephen Dunn Stephen Elliot Dunn (June 24, 1939June 24, 2021) was an American poet and educator who authored twenty-one collections of poetry. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his 2001 collection, ''Different Hours,'' and received an Academy Award i ...

(Canada) *''Eye of the Storm'' -

Sékou Traoré Sékou Traoré is a filmmaker from Burkina Faso. He and his friends Dani Kouyaté and Issa Traoré de Brahima established the production company Sahelis Productions Sahelis Productions is a film and television video production and post-productio ...

(France/Burkina Faso) *''Flocking'' - Beata Gårdeler (Sweden) *''

Frenzy ''Frenzy'' is a 1972 British thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It is the penultimate feature film of his extensive career. The screenplay by Anthony Shaffer was based on the 1966 novel ''Goodbye Piccadilly, Farewell Leicester Squar ...

'' - Emin Alper (Turkey/France/Qatar) *''Highway to Hellas'' - Aron Lehmann - (Germany) *''

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Ixcanul ''Ixcanul'' (, Kaqchikel for "volcano") is a 2015 Guatemalan drama film, a debut written and directed by Jayro Bustamante. It was screened in the main competition section of the 65th Berlin International Film Festival where it won the Alfred Ba ...

'' - Jayro Bustamante (Guatemala/France) *''

Krisha ''Krisha'' is a 2015 American drama film written and directed by Trey Edward Shults in his feature-length directorial debut, starring his real-life aunt Krisha Fairchild, and is the feature-length adaption of the 2014 short film ''Krisha'' also ...

'' - Trey Edward Shults (United States) *''

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Yared Zeleke Yared Zeleke is an Ethiopian film director from Addis Ababa. He has an M.F.A. in Writing and Directing from New York University. His first feature film, ''Lamb'', was screened at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, Un Certain Regard (, meaning 'a ...

(Ethiopia/France/Germany) *'' Land and Shade'' - César Augusto Acevedo (Colombia/France/Spain) *''

Les Cowboys ''Les Cowboys'' () is a 2015 French-Belgian drama film directed by Thomas Bidegain. It was screened in the Directors' Fortnight section at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. Cast * François Damiens as Alain Balland * Finnegan Oldfield as Georges B ...

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Thomas Bidegain Thomas Bidegain is a French screenwriter, producer and film director. He is noted for his collaborations with the director Jacques Audiard. He received the César Award for Best Original Screenplay in 2010 for ''A Prophet'' and Best Adaptation ...

(France) *''Long Live the Bride'' - Ascanio Celestini (Italy/France) *''

Looking for Her ''Looking for Her'' (or ''Je vous souhaite d'être follement aimée'') is a 2015 French drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in t ...

'' - Ounie Lecomte (France) *''

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Deniz Gamze Ergüven Deniz Gamze Ergüven (born 4 June 1978), is a Turkish-French film director best known for her debut feature film ''Mustang''. Early life and education Ergüven was born in Ankara, Turkey but moved to France in the 1980s. She grew up and went to ...

(France/Germany/Turkey/Qatar) *''

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'' - Pavle Vučković (Serbia) *''

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'' - Valéry Rosier (Belgium) *''Raging Rose'' - Julia Kowalski (France/Poland) *''

Rams In engineering, RAMS (reliability, availability, maintainability and safety)Grímur Hákonarson Grímur Hákonarson (born 1977) is an Icelandic film director and screenwriter. His first feature film was ''Summerland (2010 film), Summerland'' from 2010, for which Grímur was nominated for the Edda Award for Best Screenplay. His next feature ...

(Iceland/Denmark) *''Road to La Paz'' - Francisco Varone (Argentina/Netherlands/Germany/Qatar) *''

The Automatic Hate ''The Automatic Hate'' is a 2015 American comedy-drama film directed by Justin Lerner. It stars Joseph Cross and Adelaide Clemens as cousins who try to determine why their fathers have kept their respective families apart for decades. The film p ...

'' - Justin Lerner (United States) *'' The Devout'' - Connor Gaston (Canada) *''The Exile'' - Arturo Ruiz Serrano (Spain) *''The Project of the Century'' - Carlos Quintela (Argentina/Cuba/Germany/Switzerland) *'' The Summer of Sangailė'' - Alantė Kavaitė (Lithuania/France/Netherlands) *''

The Thin Yellow Line ''The Thin Yellow Line'' ( es, La delgada línea amarilla) is a 2015 Mexican road comedy-drama film directed by Celso R. García. It was one of fourteen films shortlisted by Mexico to be their submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign L ...

'' - Celso R. García (Mexico)

Wide Angle

Korean Short Film Competition

*''A Place Left Behind'' - Moon Ji-won (Korea) *''Anna'' - Je Jung-mo (Korea) *''Bargain'' - Lee Chung-hyun (Korea) *''Boy with Guitar'' - Kwon Hyo (Korea) *''DESK'' - Kim You-June (Korea) *''Dishonor'' - Kim Ui-suk (Korea) *''Family'' - Chong Seung-hyun (Korea) *''Shame Diary'' - Lee Eun-jeong (Korea) *''The Chicken of Wuzuh'' - Byun Sung-bin (Korea) *''The Transfer Student'' - Park Ji-in (Korea)

Asian Short Film Competition

*''For We Are Strangers'' - Nicole Midori Woodford (Singapore) *''Hpakant Jade Life'' - Lee Yong Chao (Taiwan) *''Nia's Door'' - Lau Kek Huat (Taiwan) *''Octopus'' - Jaypee Hamoc Jr. (Philippines) *''Opus'' - Sugita Satoru (Japan) *''Rapture'' - Nima Farahi (Iran) *''Spring Awakening'' - Cheng Ya-Chih (Taiwan) *''The Shame'' - Sushan Prajapati (Nepal) *''Three Wheels'' - Neang Kavich (Cambodia/France) *''Time to Die'' - Wang Tong (China)

Short Film Showcase

*''Ave Maria'' - Basil Khalil (Palestine/France/Germany) *''Color of Asia - Newcomers'' - Asmita Shrish, Fateme Ahmadi, Phuttiphong Aroonpheng, Cheng Liang, Lee Han-jong (China/Korea/Nepal/Thailand) *''Dancing Cat'' - Min Yong-keun (Korea) *''Durga'' -

Vivek Kajaria Vivek Kajaria ( hi, विवेक कजरिया), (born 1 October 1984) is an Indian film producer and director. He is the founder/managing director of Holy Basil Productions Pvt. Ltd. and Co- founder/partner of NAHB, a joint venture b ...

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Carlo Francisco Manatad Carlo Francisco Manatad (born October 4, 1987) is a Filipino filmmaker and editor. He is one of the most prolific editors in the Philippines and has edited the film''Ruined Heart''(2014), '' A Gentle Night'' (2017), ''Balangiga'' (2017) and ''W ...

(Philippines) *''Life on the Border'' - Hazem Khodeide, Zohur Saeid, Basmeh Soleiman, Delovan Kekha, Diar Omar, Mahmod Ahmad, Rounahi Ezaddin, Sami Hossein (Syria/Iraq) *''Love Story Not'' - Yosep Anggi Noen (Indonesia) *''RED EYE'' -

Yoon Eun-hye Yoon Eun-hye (; born October 3, 1984) is a South Korean actress, singer, entertainer and model. She debuted as a member of girl group Baby Vox, staying with the group from 1999 to 2005. Yoon has since moved on to acting and is best known for st ...

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Martin Scorsese Martin Charles Scorsese ( , ; born November 17, 1942) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter and actor. Scorsese emerged as one of the major figures of the New Hollywood era. He is the recipient of List of awards and nominatio ...

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Moon So-ri Moon So-ri (born July 2, 1974) is a South Korean actress, film director and screenwriter. She is best known for her acclaimed leading roles in ''Oasis'' (2002) and ''A Good Lawyer's Wife'' (2003). Career After graduating with a degree in Educa ...

(Korea) *''Where Mermaids Go'' -

Kim Tae-yong Kim Tae-yong (born December 9, 1969) is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. After his feature directorial debut '' Memento Mori'' (1999), he helmed the critically acclaimed ''Family Ties'' (2006), and the English-language remake '' ...

(Korea) *''William Wilson'' - Emmanuel Ollivier (France)

Documentary Competition

*''Boys Run'' - Kang Seok-pil (Korea) *''Fireflies in the Abyss'' - Chandrasekhar Reddy (India/United Kingdom) *''Look Love'' - Ye Yun (China) *''Reach For The SKY'' - Choi Woo-young, Steven Dhoedt (Korea/Belgium) *''Shahrzaad's Tale'' - Shahin Parhami (Iran/Canada/Korea) *''Still and All'' - Kim Young-jo (Korea) *''Twenty Two'' - Guo Ke (China/Korea) *''We Shall Overcome'' - Mikami Chie (Japan) *''Where am I?: Beyond Girl and Woman'' - Kim Hyo-jung (Korea) *''Zen and Bones'' - Nakamura Takayuki (Japan)

Documentary Showcase

*''A Young Patriot'' - Du Haibin (China/France/United States) *''Ashes to Ashes'' - Shin Sang-hoon (Korea) *'' Beyond My Grandfather Allende'' - Marcia Tambutti Allende (Chile/Mexico) *''Drifting City'' - Kim Jeong (Korea) *''

Francofonia ''Francofonia'' is a 2015 internationally co-produced drama film directed by Alexander Sokurov. It was screened in the main competition section of the 72nd Venice International Film Festival and in the Masters section of the 2015 Toronto Interna ...

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Alexander Sokurov Alexander Nikolayevich Sokurov, PAR (russian: link=no, Александр Николаевич Сокуров; born 14 June 1951) is a Russian filmmaker. His most significant works include a feature film, ''Russian Ark'' (2002), filmed in a s ...

(France/Germany/Netherlands) *''Grozny Blues'' - Nicola Bellucci - (Switzerland) *''Hong Kong Trilogy: Preschooled Preoccupied Preposterous'' - Christopher Doyle (Hong Kong, China) *''Horizon'' -

Friðrik Þór Friðriksson Friðrik Þór Friðriksson (born 12 May 1954; pronounced ), sometimes credited as Fridrik Thor Fridriksson, is an Icelandic film director and producer. Biography Fridriksson started his film making career with experimental films and documenta ...

, Bergur Bernburg (Iceland/Denmark) *'' Ice and the Sky'' -

Luc Jacquet Luc Jacquet (born 5 December 1967) is a French film director and screenwriter. He wrote and directed the film ''March of the Penguins'', which won an Oscar for Best Documentary Feature in 2005 and received a nomination for the Writers Guild of ...

(France) *''In Jackson Heights'' -

Frederick Wiseman Frederick Wiseman (born January 1, 1930) is an American filmmaker, documentarian, and theater director. His work is "devoted primarily to exploring American institutions". He has been called "one of the most important and original filmmakers worki ...

(United States) *''Jai Ho'' - Umesh Aggarwal (India) *''Jia Zhangke, a Guy from Fenyang'' -

Walter Salles Walter Moreira Salles Júnior (; born 12 April 1956) is a Brazilian filmmaker. Early life Salles was born on 12 April 1956 in Rio de Janeiro and attended the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts. He is the son of Brazil ...

(Brazil) *''My Land'' - Fan Jian (China) *''Special Annie'' - Kim Hyun-kyung (Korea/United States) *''The Dream of Shahrazad'' -

François Verster François Verster (born 1969) is an independent South African film director and documentary maker. He has a wide background in writing, music, academia and film. After completing an MA degree with distinction under literature Nobel Prize laur ...

(South Africa/Egypt/France/Netherlands/Jordan) *''The Master'' - Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit (Thailand) *'' The Other Side'' - Roberto Minervini (Italy/France) *''

The Pearl Button ''The Pearl Button'' ( es, El botón de nácar) is a 2015 Chilean documentary film directed by Patricio Guzmán. It was screened in the main competition section of the 65th Berlin International Film Festival where it won the Silver Bear for Best ...

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Patricio Guzmán Patricio Guzmán Lozanes (born August 11, 1941) is a Chilean documentary film director. He is most known for his films ''The Battle of Chile'' (1975-1979) and ''Salvador Allende'' (2004). Career Guzmán also teaches documentary film classes in ...

(Chile/France/Spain) *''Twinsters'' -

Samantha Futerman Samantha Futerman (born November 19, 1987) is a South Korean-born American actress, writer, director, and activist. She is known for her supporting role in the drama film '' Memoirs of a Geisha'', set in Japan around World War II. She is also k ...

, Ryan Miyamoto (United States/Korea/United Kingdom)

Cinekids

*'' Boonie Bears: Mystical Winter'' - Leon Ding (China) *''

Dumbo ''Dumbo'' is a 1941 American animated fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures. The fourth Disney animated feature film, it is based upon the storyline written by Helen Aberson and Harold Pearl, a ...

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Ben Sharpsteen Benjamin Sharpsteen (November 4, 1895 – December 20, 1980) was an American film director and producer for Disney The Walt Disney Company, commonly known as Disney (), is an American multinational mass media and entertainment con ...

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Rainbow A rainbow is a meteorological phenomenon that is caused by reflection, refraction and dispersion of light in water droplets resulting in a spectrum of light appearing in the sky. It takes the form of a multicoloured circular arc. Rainbows c ...

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Nagesh Kukunoor Nagesh Kukunoor (born 30 March 1967) is an Indian film director, producer, screenwriter and actor known for his works predominantly in Hindi cinema, and few Telugu language films. He is known for his works in parallel cinema, such as ''Hyderab ...

(India) *''Raven the Little Rascal - The Big Race'' - Sandor Jesse, Ute von Münchow-Pohl (Germany) *''The Incredible Story of the Stone Boy'' - Miguel Uriegas, Miguel Bonilla, Jaime Romandía, Pablo Aldrete (Mexico) *''Trenk, the Little Knight'' - Anthony Power (Germany/Austria)

Animation Showcase

*''Adama'' - Simon Rouby (France) *''Cafard'' - Jan Bultheel (Belgium/France/Netherlands) *''Long Way North'' - Rémi Chayé (France/Denmark) *'' Only Yesterday'' -

Isao Takahata was a Japanese director, screenwriter and producer. A co-founder of Studio Ghibli, he earned international critical acclaim for his work as a director of Japanese animated feature films. Born in Ujiyamada, Mie Prefecture, Takahata joined Toei ...

(Japan) *''

The Magic Mountain ''The Magic Mountain'' (german: Der Zauberberg, links=no, ) is a novel by Thomas Mann, first published in German in November 1924. It is widely considered to be one of the most influential works of twentieth-century German literature. Mann st ...

'' - Anca Damian (Romania/Poland/France)

Open Cinema

*'' Baahubali: The Beginning'' -

S. S. Rajamouli Koduri Srisaila Sri Rajamouli ( ; born 10 October 1973) is an Indian film director and screenwriter who primarily works in Telugu cinema. He is the highest paid director in India, and is known for his action, fantasy, and epic genre films. T ...

- (India) *'' Brother Bajrangi'' - Kabir Khan - (India) *'' Collective Invention'' - Kwon Oh-kwang - (Korea) *'' Courted'' - Christian Vincent - (France) *''

Monster Hunt ''Monster Hunt'' () is a 2015 mainland Chinese-Hong Kong 3D fantasy action comedy adventure film directed by Raman Hui (in his feature directorial debut). The film was released in China on 16 July 2015 in 3D and IMAX 3D. Upon release, it became ...

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Raman Hui Raman Hui Shing-Ngai (Traditional Chinese: 許誠毅, born 4 July 1963) is a Hong Kong animator, film director, and film producer. He is best known for directing the films ''Monster Hunt'' and ''Monster Hunt 2''. Early life Hui was born in Ho ...

- (Hong Kong, China) *''

My Neighbor Totoro is a 1988 Japanese animated fantasy film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki and animated by Studio Ghibli for Tokuma Shoten. The film—which stars the voice actors Noriko Hidaka, Chika Sakamoto, and Hitoshi Takagi—tells the story of a ...

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Hayao Miyazaki is a Japanese animator, director, producer, screenwriter, author, and manga artist. A co-founder of Studio Ghibli, he has attained international acclaim as a masterful storyteller and creator of Japanese animated feature films, and is widel ...

- (Japan) *''Our Times'' - Frankie Chen - (Taiwan) *'' The Wait'' - Piero Messina - (Italy)

Special Programs in Focus

Asian Cinema 100

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A Brighter Summer Day ''A Brighter Summer Day'' is a 1991 Taiwanese epic teen crime drama film directed by Edward Yang, associated with the "New Taiwanese Cinema." The English title is derived from the lyrics of Elvis Presley's " Are You Lonesome Tonight?". The film ...

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Edward Yang Edward Yang (; November 6, 1947 – June 29, 2007) was a Taiwanese filmmaker. Yang, along with fellow auteurs Hou Hsiao-hsien and Tsai Ming-liang, was one of the leading film-makers of the Taiwanese New Wave and Taiwanese cinema. He won the Be ...

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A City of Sadness ''A City of Sadness'' () is a 1989 Taiwanese historical drama directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien. It tells the story of a family embroiled in the " White Terror" that was wrought on the Taiwanese people by the Kuomintang government (KMT) after their ...

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Pather Panchali ''Pather Panchali'' (; ) is a 1955 Indian Bengali (language), Bengali-language Drama (film and television), drama film written and directed by Satyajit Ray and produced by the Government of West Bengal. It is an adaptation of Bibhutibhushan Ba ...

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Satyajit Ray Satyajit Ray (; 2 May 1921 – 23 April 1992) was an Indian director, screenwriter, documentary filmmaker, author, essayist, lyricist, magazine editor, illustrator, calligrapher, and music composer. One of the greatest auteurs of fil ...

(India) *''

Close-Up A close-up or closeup in filmmaking, television production, still photography, and the comic strip medium is a type of shot that tightly frames a person or object. Close-ups are one of the standard shots used regularly with medium and long s ...

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Abbas Kiarostami Abbas Kiarostami ( fa, عباس کیارستمی ; 22 June 1940 – 4 July 2016) was an Iranian film director, screenwriter, poet, photographer, and film producer. An active filmmaker from 1970, Kiarostami had been involved in the production of ...

(Iran) *''

Rashomon is a 1950 Jidaigeki psychological thriller/crime film directed and written by Akira Kurosawa, working in close collaboration with cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa. Starring Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyō, Masayuki Mori (actor), Masayuki Mori, and ...

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Akira Kurosawa was a Japanese filmmaker and painter who directed thirty films in a career spanning over five decades. He is widely regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema. Kurosawa displayed a bold, dyna ...

(Japan) *''

Seven Samurai is a 1954 Japanese epic samurai drama film co-written, edited, and directed by Akira Kurosawa. The story takes place in 1586 during the Sengoku period of Japanese history. It follows the story of a village of desperate farmers who hire seven ...

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Spring in a Small Town ''Spring in a Small Town'' is a 1948 black-and-white Chinese film, written by Li Tianji () and directed by Fei Mu, a director known for his empathetic portrayal of women.Daruvala, S. (2007). The aesthetics and moral politics of Fei Mu's Spring in ...

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Fei Mu Fei Mu (October 10, 1906 — January 31, 1951), also romanised as Fey Mou, was a Cinema of China, Chinese film director of the pre-Communist era. His ''Spring in a Small Town'' (1948) was declared the greatest Chinese film ever made by the Hong ...

(China) *''

Still Life A still life (plural: still lifes) is a work of art depicting mostly wikt:inanimate, inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which are either natural (food, flowers, dead animals, plants, rocks, shells, etc.) or artificiality, m ...

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(China) *'' The Housemaid'' -

Kim Ki-young Kim Ki-young (October 10, 1919According to official documents, Kim was born in 1919. However, Kim insisted he was actually born in 1922. – February 5, 1998) was a South Korean film director, known for his intensely psychosexual and melodr ...

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Tokyo Story is a 1953 Japanese drama film directed by Yasujirō Ozu and starring Chishū Ryū and Chieko Higashiyama about an aging couple who travel to Tokyo to visit their grown children. Upon release, it did not immediately gain international recogniti ...

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Yasujirō Ozu was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. He began his career during the era of silent films, and his last films were made in colour in the early 1960s. Ozu first made a number of short comedies, before turning to more serious themes in t ...

(Japan) (''For the top 100 Asian films of all time, see Asian Cinema 100 Ranking'')

My French Cinema

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A Man and a Woman ''A Man and a Woman'' (french: Un homme et une femme) is a 1966 French film written and directed by Claude Lelouch and starring Anouk Aimée and Jean-Louis Trintignant. Written by Lelouch and Pierre Uytterhoeven, the film concerns a young widow a ...

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A Prophet ''A Prophet'' (french: Un prophète) is a 2009 French prison crime film directed by Jacques Audiard with a screenplay by Audiard, with Thomas Bidegain, Abdel Raouf Dafri, and Nicolas Peufaillit, from a story by Dafri. The film stars Tahar Rahim ...

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(France) *'' A Room in Town'' -

Jacques Demy Jacques Demy (; 5 June 1931 – 27 October 1990) was a French director, lyricist, and screenwriter. He appeared at the height of the French New Wave alongside contemporaries like Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut. Demy's films are celebrat ...

(France) *'' Bad Blood'' -

Leos Carax Alex Christophe Dupont (born 22 November 1960), best known as Leos Carax (), is a French film director, critic and writer. Carax is noted for his poetic style and his tortured depictions of love. His first major work was ''Boy Meets Girl (1984 f ...

(France) *'' Bellamy'' -

Claude Chabrol Claude Henri Jean Chabrol (; 24 June 1930 – 12 September 2010) was a French film director and a member of the French New Wave (''nouvelle vague'') group of filmmakers who first came to prominence at the end of the 1950s. Like his colleagues an ...

(France) *''

Holy Motors ''Holy Motors'' is a 2012 fantasy drama film written and directed by Leos Carax and starring Denis Lavant and Édith Scob. Lavant plays Mr. Oscar, a man who appears to have a job as an actor, as he is seen dressing up in different costumes and pe ...

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(France) *''Just for Laughs'' -

Lucas Belvaux Lucas Belvaux (born 14 November 1961) is a Belgian actor and film director. His directing credits include the ''Trilogie'', consisting of three films with interlocking stories and characters, each of which was filmed in a different genre. The t ...

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Julien Duvivier Julien Duvivier (; 8 October 1896 – 29 October 1967) was a French film director and screenwriter. He was prominent in French cinema in the years 1930–1960. Amongst his most original films, chiefly notable are ''La Bandera (film), La Bandera'', ...

(France) *'' My Sex Life... or How I Got into an Argument'' -

(France) *'' Summer Hours'' -

Olivier Assayas Olivier Assayas (born 25 January 1955) is a French film director, screenwriter and film critic. Assayas is known for his slow-burning period pieces, psychological thrillers, neo-noirs and French comedies. His work has become synonymous with the ...

(France)

Midnight Passion

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Michael Petroni Michael Petroni is an Australian screenwriter and director. Biography Petroni worked in the early 1990s as a comedy writer and performer on Australian television, and appeared as "Psycho Bob", an American serial killer character, in ''The Big Gi ...

(United Kingdom/Australia) *''Convergence'' - Drew Hall (United States) *'' Ghost Theater'' -

Hideo Nakata is a Japanese filmmaker. Life and career Nakata was born in Okayama, Japan. He is most familiar to Western audiences for his work on Japanese horror films such as ''Ring'' (1998), ''Ring 2'' (1999) and ''Dark Water'' (2002). Several of these we ...

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Green Room In show business, the green room is the space in a theatre or similar venue that functions as a waiting room and lounge for performers before, during, and after a performance or show when they are not engaged on stage. Green rooms typically have ...

'' - Jeremy Saulnier (United States) *''

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Nicolas Boukhrief Nicolas Boukhrief (born 4 June 1963) is a French screenwriter, film director and actor. Boukhrief started his career as a journalist. In 1990 he created ''the Newspaper of the cinema'' on Canal+, and was the writer in chief until 1993, when he ...

(France) *'' Litchi Hikari Club'' - Eisuke Naito (Japan) *''Numb'' - Jason R. Goode (Canada) *'' SPL II: A Time for Consequences'' -

Cheang Pou-soi Cheang Pou-soi (; born 11 July 1972), also known as his main credited as Soi Cheang or Bob Cheng, is a Hong Kong film director, assistant director, screenwriter, script supervisor, actor and film producer. Filmography As director * '' Mad Fate'' ...

(Hong Kong, China/China) *''Summer Camp'' - Alberto Marini (Spain/United States) *''The Hallow'' - Corin Hardy (United Kingdom) *'' The Invitation'' -

Karyn Kusama Karyn Kiyoko Kusama (born March 21, 1968) is an American filmmaker. She made her directorial and writing feature film debut with the sports drama film ''Girlfight'' (2000) for which she received a nomination for the Independent Spirit Award for B ...

(United States) *'' The Visit'' - M. Night Shyamalan (United States )

Closing

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Mountain Cry ''Mountain Cry'' ( zh, 喊山) is a 2015 Chinese drama film directed by Larry Yang. The film is based on the novel of the same title by Ge Shuiping.

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Awards

*New Currents Award **''

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'' - Yerlan Nurmukhambetov (Kazakhstan) *BIFF Mecenat Award **''Boys Run'' - Kang Seok-pil (Korea) **''Look Love'' - Ye Yun (China) **Special Mention: ''Still and All'' - Kim Young-jo (Korea) *Sonje Award **''Shame Diary'' - Lee Eun-jeong (Korea) **''Nia's Door'' - Lau Kek Huat (Taiwan) *Actor & Actress of the Year Award **Lee Ju-won - ''ALONE'' (Korea) **Sun Jang - ''Communication & Lies'' (Korea) *FIPRESCI Award **''

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(Iran) *NETPAC Award **''Communication & Lies'' - Lee Seung-won (Korea) *Daemyung Culture Wave Award **''Overman'' - Seo Eun-young (Korea) *KNN Award **''Radio Set'' - Hari Viswanath (India) *Busan Bank Award **''Highway to Hellas'' - Aron Lehmann (Germany) *Citizen Critics’ Award **''ALONE'' - Park Hong-min (Korea) *Busan Cinephile Award **'' The Other Side'' - Roberto Minervini (Italy/France) *CGV Arthouse Award **''

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(Korea) *DGK Award **'' The Boys Who Cried Wolf'' - Kim Jin-hwang (Korea) **''

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(Korea) *The Asian Filmmaker of the Year **

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(Japan) *Korean Cinema Award **

Wieland Speck Wieland Speck (* 1951 in Freiburg im Breisgau) is a German film director, who since 1992 has coordinated "Panorama" at the International Filmfestival Berlin (Berlinale). Panorama showcases new films by established directors, as well as debut work ...

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Asian Cinema 100

Asian Cinema 100 ranks top 100 Asian films of all time and it was completed with the help from directors, critics, film scholars, and journalists from various countries. 73 film professionals participated in the project with a total of 113 films (including joint rankings) and 106 directors listed in the " Asian Cinema Directors 100". It will be updated every 5 years and is expected to focus more attention and studies on Asian films.

Asian Cinema 100 Ranking

Asian Cinema Directors 100 Ranking

References

External links

* {{Busan International Film Festival

2015 in South Korea Busan International Film Festival 2015 festivals in South Korea