Sub-International, the start of the film festival… From Bong Joon-ho’s talk to Song Joong-ki and Lee Je-hoon’s talk [BIFF]

The full-fledged film festival of the Busan International Film Festival begins.

The 26th Busan International Film Festival opened on the 6th, and the main schedule in earnest will start from the 7th.

From 4 pm on the same day, an open talk for the movie ‘Seungriho’ with actor Song Joong-ki is prepared at the outdoor stage of the Seoul Cinema Center. From the story related to ‘Seungri-ho’ to Song Joong-ki’s talk, it will be available in the 50-minute open talk.

Director Bong Joon-ho will have a conversation with director Ryusuke Hamaguchi at the Central Theater of the Seoul Cinema Center at 5 pm on the same day. Director Ryusuke Hamaguchi is the next-generation Japanese director to succeed Koreeda Hirokazu, and he will present two films, ‘Occasion and Imagination’ and ‘Drive My Car’ at this year’s Pusan ​​International Film Festival. ‘Occasion and Imagination’ won the Grand Prize of the Jury at the Berlin International Film Festival, and ‘Drive My Car’ won the Best Screenplay Award at the Cannes Film Festival.

The audience’s anticipation is already high for the meeting of the two directors representing Asian cinema. Above all, Ryusuke Hamaguchi is also known as a big fan of director Bong Joon-ho. He participated as a special guest at the ‘Memories of Murder’ (2003) GV, which was screened in the special exhibition ‘100 Years of Korean Cinema, 10 Great Frontiers’ at the 24th Pusan ​​International Film Festival, and had a conversation with the audience. ‘(2019) has been in an in-depth conversation, so I am looking forward to the conversation with director Bong Joon-ho.

Director Bong Joon-ho is attending the red carpet event for the opening ceremony of the ’26th Busan International Film Festival (BIFF)’ held at the U-dong Film Center in Busan on the afternoon of the 6th. 2021.10.6/News 1 © News1 Reporter Hyunjin Kwon

In particular, the Busan International Film Festival has created a special talk program, ‘Actor’s House’. Actors House is a special program that invites actors representing the contemporary Korean film industry to hear intimate and in-depth stories about their performances.

While Uhm Jung-hwa and Han Ye-ri Jeon Jong-seo Jo Jin-woong Je-hoon Byun Yo-han foreshadowed a meeting with the audience at the Actors House, Lee Je-hoon will meet the audience on this day in the first order. Above all, Je-hoon Lee visited Busan as one of the directors of the short omnibus project ‘Unframed’ (2021), which was officially invited to the Today-Panorama section of Korean cinema. Actors House is expected to meet Lee Je-hoon’s colorful charms as an actor.

Meanwhile, the Busan International Film Festival will be held until the 15th at the Busan Haeundae-gu Film Hall and Community BIFF, which screens movies in 14 districts and villages. The opening film is ‘Land of Happiness’ directed by Im Sang-soo, and the closing film is ‘Madeumbang’ directed by Leong Rok-man. This year’s official screenings are 223 films from 70 countries, and 63 community beef screenings. Major events include open talk and special talk, outdoor stage greetings, actors’ house, master class, and hand printing event.

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