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A day before the opening of the Busan International Film Festival, Asia’s largest film festival, Busan is in a festive mood.
The film festival, which was curtailed due to COVID-19, is normalized after 3 years, and theater seats are 100% operated, and domestic and foreign filmmakers visit Busan to meet with the audience.
Correspondent Hong Sang-hee.
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It was held the night before the Busan International Film Festival at Nampo-dong Plaza, where the film festival started in 1996.
Despite heavy rain, Busan citizens and film fans gathered to celebrate the start of the Busan International Film Festival, which has been normalized for the first time in three years.
[옥경애 / 부산 연제구 : 오랜만에 영화관도 마음대로 가서 팝콘도 먹고 하는게 다 좋아요. 영화인들이 조금 더 힘을 내시고 다들 그랬으면 좋겠습니다.]
[리아 마르케르 / 바로셀로나 : 부산국제영화제가 매우 크고 많은 영화와 함께 극장도 엄청나다고 들었어요. 매우 기대됩니다. 여러 영화를 보려고 해요.]
The first film to be screened at the Busan International Film Festival is ‘Scent of the Wind’.
This is the fourth film directed by Iran’s Hadi Mohaghh, considered the next generation master of Asia, and contains reflections on humans, nature and life.
The most notable film star is Yang Jo-wi, who won the Asian Film Artist of the Year Award.
Six major works, including ‘Apocalypse’, ‘The Flower of the Days’, and Happy Together, which have not been released in Korea, will be shown, and on the 7th, the audience will meet in person .
Director Hirokazu Koreeda and actor Ryo Kase visit Busan, and director James Cameron of ‘Avatar: Water Road’, which will be released in December, can be met online.
This year, OTT will also open its doors wider, and 9 new domestic and foreign OTT films will be released, including director Lee Jun-ik’s ‘Yonder’ and Lars von Trier’s ‘Kingdom Exodus’.
The scale of ‘NeongnebangneBeef’, which hosts films and performances in 17 places in Busan, including Beomeosa Temple, has also grown.
[허문영 / 부산국제영화제 집행위원장 : 지난 2년 동안 마련을 못했던 너무 많은 메뉴가 준비돼 있습니다. 이 좋은, 아름다운 계절에 영화 성찬을 부산의 바닷가와 함께 즐기는 좋은 기회를 놓치지 마시기를 당부드립니다.]
The opening ceremony will be held tomorrow at 7pm at the Haeundae Cinema Center.
Overcoming the pandemic, over 350 films from all over the world are coming to Busan.
The Busan International Film Festival will be held face to face with the audience again for the next ten days, a festival of Asian films.
This is Hong Sang-hee’s opinion.
YTN Hong Sang-hee (san@ytn.co.kr)
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