BUSAN International Film Festival

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31st BUSAN International Film Festival

Honoring the Winners
and Award-Winning Films

Moments of Glory in The Ocean of Cinema

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31st BUSAN International Film Festival

2026 BIFF
Final Report

Key Figures, Achievements, and Festival Records

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Competition

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The First Taste of Loneliness

The Sea Speaks His Name

Yosep Anggi NOEN

Indonesia 2026 133min

International Premiere

Uzbekistan 2026 87min

Indonesia/Japan 2026 96min

2026 Official Selections

WHAT'S ON

BIFF Events

MASTER CLASS

Master Class: NA Hong-jin, A Genre of His Own

Oct 8 (Thu)

Culture Hall (9F), Shinsegae Centum City

MASTER CLASS

Master Class: The Cinematic Visions of Alfonso CUARÓN

Oct 8 (Thu)

Busan Cinema Center Cinema 1

ACTORS HOUSE

Actors’ House: KIM Goeun

Oct 8 (Thu)

Culture Hall(9F), Shinsegae Centum City

OPEN TALK

Open Talk

Oct 7 (Wed) ~ Oct 13 (Tue)

Busan Cinema Center Roof Theater

ACTORS HOUSE

Actors’ House: KIM Minha

Oct 8 (Thu)

Culture Hall(9F), Shinsegae Centum City

SPECIAL EVENT

Special Talk: The Cinematic Life of Ann Hui, Winner of the Camellia Award

Oct 8 (Thu)

Busan Cinema Center Cinema 2

MASTER CLASS

Master Class: Lav DIAZ - Time and Memory

Oct 9 (Fri)

Culture Hall (9F), Shinsegae Centum City

ACTORS HOUSE

Actors’ House: RYU Seung-ryong

Oct 9 (Fri)

Culture Hall(9F), Shinsegae Centum City

OUTDOOR STAGE GREETING

Outdoor Stage Greeting

Oct 7 (Wed) ~ Oct 11 (Sun)

Busan Cinema Center Roof Theater

ACTORS HOUSE

Actors’ House: JU Jihoon

10.09 (Fri)

Culture Hall(9F), Shinsegae Centum City

MASTER CLASS

Master Class: Bertrand MANDICO, A Magician of Wild Cinema

Oct 10 (Sat)

Culture Hall (9F), Shinsegae Centum City

MASTER CLASS

Master Class: Rintaro, a Living Legend of Japanese Animation

Oct 10 (Sat)

Culture Hall (9F), Shinsegae Centum City

ACTORS HOUSE

Actors’ House: SHIN Mina

Oct 10 (Sat)

Culture Hall(9F), Shinsegae Centum City

SPECIAL TALK

Special Talk

Oct 7 (Wed) ~ Oct 12 (Mon)

Varies by Event

TALK-TO-TALK

Talk-to-Talk-Scene Stealer: Actor KIM Kukhee

Oct 12 (Mon)

HANMAC SMOOOOOTH LOUNGE

TALK-TO-TALK

Talk-to-Talk-Scene Stealer: Actor KIM Jaechul

Oct 12 (Mon)

HANMAC SMOOOOOTH LOUNGE

TALK-TO-TALK

Talk-to-Talk-Scene Stealer: Actor GONG Minjeung

Oct 13 (Tue)

HANMAC SMOOOOOTH LOUNGE

TALK-TO-TALK

Talk-to-Talk-Scene Stealer: Actor PARK Jiyeon

Oct 13 (Tue)

HANMAC SMOOOOOTH LOUNGE

CINE CLASS

Cine Class

Oct 8 (Thu) ~ Oct 14 (Wed)

Varies by Event

TALK-TO-TALK

Talk-to-Talk-Scene Stealer: Actor IM Seongjae

Oct 14 (Wed)

HANMAC SMOOOOOTH LOUNGE

TALK-TO-TALK

Talk-to-Talk-Scene Stealer: Actor KIM Junhan

Oct 14 (Wed)

HANMAC SMOOOOOTH LOUNGE

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BIFF 2026

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Audience & Critics

BIFF Story

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The Kinder Programmer

THE KINDER PROGRAMMER

[BIFF 2026] The Kinder Programmer - PARK Sunyoung

It seems that summer, with its relentless heat, is finally drawing to a close. Today, Busan was under a strong wind advisory. And as the night air on my way home from work gradually begins to feel a little cooler, I can really feel that the festival is just around the corner. Around this time ev

PARK Sun Young Programmer

2026/09/11

Selection Review

Beach Fictions

LIM Hayeon / Korea / 2026 / 144min / Competition A train passes by in the distance, after which, the camera pans, lingering inside a busy restaurant and its busy patrons excitedly engaged in thei

2026/10/11 BY Oggs Cruz Film Critic (Philippines)

Satoko Always

VERDICT: A subtle celebration of the transformative power of the written word, 'Satoko Always' features three women in very different stages in life.Clarence TsuiOctober 6th, 2026Revolving around a tr

2026/10/09 BY Clarence Tsui

Between Two Lovers

Masami Nagasawa is applaudably unlikable as an adulterous author with a resistance to motherhood, who invites her husband and girlfriend to conceive a child together in a tantalizing proposition that

2026/10/13 BY James Marsh

Between Two Lovers

Tasuku Emoto and Shizuka Ishibashi also star in Nanako Hirose’s Busan competition title Dir/scr: Nanako Hirose. Japan. 2026. 128minsA free-spirited if slightly self-centred writer conspires to have he

2026/10/13 BY Elizabeth KERR

silver express

Tanaka Miki / Japan / 2026 / 97min / Competition Chieri (Yui Okamoto) cannot relate to the characters in romance films and does not know how to respond when someone expresses romantic interest in

2026/10/11 BY Jeongeun Kim

Possible Love

VERDICT: A working class family fallen into poverty becomes embroiled with a wealthy married couple who have a creepy agenda in Lee Chang-dong’s heartfelt depiction of the aftermath of a failed strike

2026/10/09 BY Deborah Young

The Sea Speaks His Name

Busan competition premiere reunites director Yosep Anggi Noen with his ‘24 Hours With Gaspar’ star Reza Rahadian Dir: Yosep Anggi Noen. Indonesia. 2026. 133minsDictatorial rule, oppression and the pow

2026/10/13 BY Elizabeth KERR

IBUKU

Ayushita Nugraha also stars in Eddie Cahyono’s Busan competition title Dir/scr: Eddie Cahyono. Indonesia/Japan. 2026. 96minsEconomic privation, labour abuses, generational disconnect and patriarchal

2026/10/11 BY Elizabeth KERR

silver express

Miki Tanaka’s Busan competition title features a strong central performance from Yui Okamoto Dir/scr: Miki Tanaka. Japan. 2026. 97minsA sensitive drama about a young woman wrestling with her sexual i

2026/10/11 BY Elizabeth KERR

Between Two Lovers

2026/10/13 BY Elizabeth KERR

Beach Fictions

Lim Hayeon’s absorbing first feature bows in Busan competition Dir/scr. Lim Hayeon. South Korea. 2026. 145mins“Falsehood flies,” wrote Jonathan Swift, “while truth comes limping after”. It’s a quote f

2026/10/11 BY Wendy IDE, Senior international critic

To Be Ordinary

Lee Yun Chan’s accomplished Busan competition title boasts a strong ensemble cast Dir: Lee Yun Chan. Taiwan. 2026. 112minsA young man’s life-changing injuries have a profound impact on all of his imme

2026/10/13 BY Allan HUNTER

Possible Love

2026/10/09 BY Deborah Young

Zogsool

VERDICT: Love blooms for two social pariahs at a petrol stop on the Mongolian steppes in Byamba Sakhya’s poised and politically charged 'Zogsool', bowing in Busan.Clarence TsuiOctober 11th, 2026After

2026/10/13 BY Clarence Tsui

Ria

VERDICT: The portrait of a fiery punk on stage and off, Arvin Belarmino's 'Ria' celebrates rebellion against a greedy society and an unjust system.Clarence TsuiOctober 10th, 2026A meek chambermaid by

2026/10/13 BY Clarence Tsui

IBUKU

VERDICT: Christine Hakim’s bravura performance anchors 'Ibuku', an absorbingly textured study of a woman’s anguished attempts to make amends for failing her condemned daughter.Clarence TsuiOctober 8th

2026/10/09 BY Clarence Tsui

The Cord

VERDICT: A mother's world unravels when her only son is charged with a violent crime in this dark, chilly and pointed Kazakh drama.Ben NicholsonOctober 9th, 2026Sometimes it is not see easy for a moth

2026/10/10 BY Ben Nicholson

Selvi

VERDICT: Actress Anjali Patil’s delicate turn as an overstretched homecare worker anchors 'Selvi', Sailesh Rathnakumar’s humane feature-film debut.Clarence TsuiOctober 10th, 2026They laugh, they cry,

2026/10/13 BY Clarence Tsui

Satoko Always

OKITA Shuichi / Japan / 2026 / 138 min / Competition An omnibus narrative unfolds around three women named Satoko. Fifteen-year-old Satoko (Kashun Himeno) is preoccupied with a boy her age whom

2026/10/11 BY Kim Min-se

To Be Ordinary

LEE Yun Chan / Taiwan / 2026 / 112min / Competition At the center of To Be Ordinary is a seemingly unremarkable family of four: a married couple and their son and daughter. They seem neither abn

2026/10/13 BY Sunwoo Nam

Midday Meal

Majid MAJIDI / Iran / 2026 / 133min / Competition Solan dreams of moving into a new home where he can live with his mother. To qualify for a bank loan to purchase the house, he must first secure

2026/10/11 BY Cho Hyunna

The Day After Sunday

Kato Takuya / Japan / 2026 / 82min / CompetitionThe latest film from the young Japanese director Kato Takuya, The Day After Sunday, is one of constantly simmering tension. Set over around a week

2026/10/11 BY Kambole Campbell, Film Critic

Hilol

Botir ABDURAKHMANOV / Uzbekistan / 2026 / 87min / Competition “Tell me, father. Who am I?” Thirty minutes into the film, the protagonist asks that existential question with seething anger. Hilol

2026/10/11 BY Kong Rithdee executive member of the Thai Film Foundation

Long Long Night

YOUM Kyubock / Korea / 2026 / 99 min / Competition The journey of Noden the rhinoceros and a penguin begins as an adventure in search of a place to live. Yet their destination is unclear from the

2026/10/11 BY Lee Jayeon

To Be Ordinary

Writer-director Lee Yun Chan's first feature in 16 years follows the sometimes surprising long-term trajectory of an already struggling family in the wake of a life-changing accident. A high-speed tra

2026/10/15 BY Guy Lodge

Beach Fictions

A highlight of Busan's main competition, Lim Hayeon's artful, confident debut follows a young woman through two versions of the same timeline, steered by tellers of stories and fortune. Fatalism, self

2026/10/15 BY Guy Lodge

All About Corinne

Casting La Huppert as an extra — albeit a very extra extra — in thrall to Sandrine Kiberlain is the first good joke of many in Marc Fitoussi's inside-baseball lark. As one of the select few French ac

2026/10/15 BY Guy Lodge

IBUKU

The fourth film from writer-director Eddie Cahyono, playing in competition at Busan, explores the struggles of migrant workers through the family left behind. The fraught relationship between an estr

2026/10/13 BY Kambole Campbell

Midday Meal

Veteran director Majid Majidi's latest film is anchored by a great performance from lead actor Mohammad Rahimi. “Midday Meal” isn’t necessarily about the art of cooking, but it is in part about the ri

2026/10/13 BY Kambole Campbell

Possible Love

Lee's fathomless, curious (in both senses) eighth feature delivers wit, soul, social insight and a scintillating central turn from his 'Secret Sunshine' star Jeon Do-yeon. One of the key moments from

2026/10/13 BY Jessica Kiang

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Competition

BIFF Events

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BIFF Story

[BIFF 2026] The Kinder Programmer - PARK Sunyoung

Beach Fictions

Satoko Always

Between Two Lovers

Between Two Lovers

silver express

Possible Love

The Sea Speaks His Name

IBUKU

silver express

Between Two Lovers

Beach Fictions

To Be Ordinary

Possible Love

Zogsool

Ria

IBUKU

The Cord

Selvi

Satoko Always

To Be Ordinary

Midday Meal

The Day After Sunday

Hilol

Long Long Night

To Be Ordinary

Beach Fictions

All About Corinne

IBUKU

Midday Meal

Possible Love

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