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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News & Notices

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Competition

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Indonesia/Japan 2026 96min

Artistic Contribution, Best Actor

World Premiere

The First Taste of Loneliness

GU You

China 2026 135min

Best Actor

International Premiere

Uzbekistan 2026 87min

The Sea Speaks His Name

Yosep Anggi NOEN

Indonesia 2026 133min

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 - JUNG Hanseok

Launched in 2025, BIFF’s Competition section celebrates its second year. Building on the strong interest and achievements of its inaugural year, this year’s submissions showed a remarkable rise in both quality and breadth, resulting in a deeper and more accomplished lineup. We are thrilled to presen

JUNG Hanseok Festival Director

2026/09/11

Selection Review

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

Long Long Night

Youm Kyu-bock’s feature debut plays Busan competition following a Toronto premiere Dir: Youm Kyu-bock. South Korea. 2026. 99minsA lone White Boulder Rhinoceros raised by a herd of elephants in Africa

2026/10/11 BY Elizabeth KERR

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

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

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

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

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

Hilol

Nargiza Bakayeva gives a strong performance in Botir Abdurakhmanov’s Busan competition debutDir/scr: Botir Abdurakhmanov. Uzbekistan. 2026. 87minsOn her family’s meagre smallholding in Uzbekistan, 23-

2026/10/13 BY

Midday Meal

A nuanced performance by Mohammad Rahimi powers Majidi’s Busan competition premiere Dir: Majid Majidi. Iran. 2026. 133minsIn the opening frames of director Majid Majidi’s Midday Meal, the camera glide

2026/10/11 BY Elizabeth KERR

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

The Table: Day and Night

Kim Jong-kwan’s follow-up to 2016’s ‘The Table’ stars Shim Eun-kyung and Han Sun-hwaDir: Kim Jong-kwan. South Korea. 2026. 80minsA chic neighbourhood café bears witness to the various romantic trial

2026/10/11 BY Elizabeth KERR

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

Cosmic Trace

VERDICT: Filmmaker Jang Woo-jin delivers a moving, meditative and masterful paean to mortality in his fourth feature, which bows in Busan’s Vision Korea competition.Clarence TsuiOctober 10th, 2026Cosm

2026/10/13 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

Midday Meal

VERDICT: Iranian auteur Majid Majidi’s first film in six years, 'Midday Meal' is illuminated by Mohammad Rahimi’s dazzling performance as a morally conflicted schoolteacher.Clarence TsuiOctober 9th, 2

2026/10/10 BY Clarence Tsui

Parallel Tales

VERDICT: Art and life take turns imitating each other in a long cascade of intricately interwoven stories in Asghar Farhadi’s ‘Parallel Tales’, part engrossing puzzle and part a repetitively revolving

2026/10/10 BY Deborah Young

Hinotama: Ball of Fire

VERDICT: This precisely shot family drama has a hint of the mystical and mysterious as it creates a suffocating milieu of detachment that is strangely compelling.Ben NicholsonOctober 12th, 2026Takenos

2026/10/13 BY Ben Nicholson

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

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

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

Shaving

Kim Junghoon / South Korea / 2026 / 93min / Competition Three years after announcing her retirement from writing, horror novelist Suyeon (Roh Jeong-eui) reveals plans for a new book. Declaring th

2026/10/11 BY Jaehyun Jung

Between Two Lovers

HIROSE Nanako / Japan / 2026 / 128min / CompetitionUta(Masami Nagasawa), a successful children’s book author, appears to have a near-perfect marriage with her supportive husband Morio(Tasuku Emot

2026/10/13 BY Robert Daniels Film Critic (USA)

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

The Sea Speaks His Name

Adapted from Leila S. Chudori's well-regarded novel, Yosep Anggi Noen's film follows an idealistic young student down a perilous path of protest in the final years of the Suharto dictatorship. In an a

2026/10/13 BY Guy Lodge