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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International Premiere

The Sea Speaks His Name

Yosep Anggi NOEN

Indonesia 2026 133min

Uzbekistan 2026 87min

Indonesia/Japan 2026 96min

The First Taste of Loneliness

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

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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

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

Long Long Night

VERDICT: Youm Kyu-bock lights up Busan’s top-tier competition with a crowd-pleasing, tear-jerking, excellently animated road movie about two animals’ search for a better place to live.Clarence TsuiOct

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

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

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 Day After Sunday

The writer/director’s follow-up to ‘Grown-ups’ and ‘Fly On’ premieres in Busan competition Dir: Takuya Kato. Japan/France. 2026. 82minsTakuya Kato’s third feature is an exploration of a relationship f

2026/10/13 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

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

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

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

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

Satoko Always

The film has its international premiere in Busan competition after releasing in Japan last monthDir: Shuichi Okita. Japan. 2026. 138minsThe importance of self-fulfilment and life’s big and small conne

2026/10/11 BY Amber WILKINSON

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

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

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

2026/10/09 BY Clarence Tsui

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

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

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)

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

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