BUSAN, Oct. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) wraps up its 10-day run Friday, leaving behind a vibrant festival mood for the event held at full scale for the first time in three years. The 27th edition screened 242 films, including 88 world premieres, from 71 countries at seven theaters in [...]
BUSAN, Oct. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) has constantly evolved to attract movie buffs and the Asian cinema industry, and this year it set an expanded stage for highly anticipated over-the-top (OTT) dramas to reflect their rising popularity. Running in full-scale without social distancing measures for the first time in [...]
BUSAN, Oct. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) kicked off its 10-day run Wednesday with a tightly packed opening ceremony, returning in full force after two years of scaled-down events. Celebrities in lavish dress posed for photos to claim the spotlight of the night and then walked the red carpet in [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — This year’s Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) is ready to entertain local and overseas movie buffs with a number of highly anticipated world premieres and long-awaited holdovers of major international film fests for 10 days in the middle of the fall season next month. The 27th edition of Asia’s [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — This year’s Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) will completely return to normal next month after pandemic-disrupted years with no social distancing at all events, including opening and closing ceremonies, organizers said Wednesday. Asia’s biggest film festival will be held from Oct. 5-14 in the southern port city of Busan, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) secretariat said Tuesday it will invite participants to its Cinema Together program, which was designed to enable participants to enjoy movies together with mentors like directors and actors during the festival period. Cinema Together is a program that allows movie spectators and mentors [...]
BUSAN, July 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The Request Cinema program will launch a crowd ticketing service during the 27th Busan International Film Festival (BIFF). Request Cinema is an audience participation program that decides what films to screen and which guests to invite based on requests from the audience. The audience can participate in the process [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The 26th Busan International Film Festival came to a close Friday, with its experiment on returning to normal likely finishing with flying colors amid the COVID-19 pandemic. This year’s BIFF, which opened Oct. 6 for a 10-day run, screened 223 films from 70 countries at the Busan Cinema Center [...]
BUSAN, Oct. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — The Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) has launched a program to screen films at various outdoor places in the host city of Busan in an effort to reach a wider audience despite COVID-19 limitations. The “BIFF in the Neighborhood” program allows people to watch films invited to the festival [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The ongoing 26th Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) has been drawing attention from the entertainment industry at home and abroad by making various fresh attempts. The festival kicked off Wednesday last week with a glamorous opening ceremony attended by hundreds of silver screen stars and filmmakers, and over 1,000 [...]