Busan International Film Festival

30^th Edition

where:	Busan (Corea)
when:	September 17^th - 26^th, 2025
address:	3rd Floor, BIFF HILL, Busan Cinema Center 120, Suyeonggangbyeon-daero, Haeundae-gu Busan 48058, Korea
tel:	+82-1688-3010
fax:	+82-51-709-2299
email:	program@biff.kr
website:	www.biff.kr
deadline:	July 2nd, 2025
entry form:	Online Submission

Since its inception in 1996, Busan International Film Festival has grown fast to become the largest film festivity in Asia. The Festival has established its role as a strong supporter of the film industry through its various programs such as the Asian Film Market, Asian Project Market, Asian Cinema Fund and Asian Film Academy.

participations

2025	Below the clouds by Gianfranco Rosi: Icons Don’t let the sun by Jacqueline Zünd: World Cinema Duse by Pietro Marcello: Icons Enzo by Robin Campillo: Icons Exterior Night by Marco Bellocchio: Special Program in Focus - Marco Bellocchio God will not help by Hana Jusic: World Cinema Good morning, night by Marco Bellocchio: Special Program in Focus - Marco Bellocchio La grazia by Paolo Sorrentino: Icons The Holy Boy by Paolo Strippoli: Midnight Passion Kurak by Erke Dzhumakmatova, Emil Atageldiev: Vision - Asia The last one for the road by Francesco Sossai: Flash Forward Marx Can Wait by Marco Bellocchio: Special Program in Focus - Marco Bellocchio Sweetheart by Margherita Spampinato: World Cinema Vincere by Marco Bellocchio: Special Program in Focus - Marco Bellocchio A year of school by Laura Samani: Flash Forward
2024	Anywhere anytime by Milad Tangshir: Flash Forward April by Dea Kulumbegashvili: World Cinema The damned by Roberto Minervini: World Cinema The Empire by Bruno Dumont: Icons The End by Joshua Oppenheimer: Flash Forward Familia by Francesco Costabile: World Cinema Gloria! by Margherita Vicario: World Cinema Grand Tour by Miguel Gomes: Gala Presentation Limonov. The Ballad by Kirill Serebrennikov: Icons Of dogs and men by Dani Rosenberg: World Cinema Se posso permettermi - Capitolo II by Marco Bellocchio: Icons There's still tomorrow by Paola Cortellesi: World Cinema Vermiglio by Maura Delpero: World Cinema
2023	Adagio by Stefano Sollima: World Cinema Behind the mountains by Mohamed Ben Attia: World Cinema A Brighter Tomorrow by Nanni Moretti: Icons La chimera by Alice Rohrwacher: Icons An endless sunday by Alain Parroni: World Cinema Finally Dawn by Saverio Costanzo: World Cinema Kidnapped by Marco Bellocchio: Icons The Last Night of Amore by Andrea di Stefano: World Cinema
2022	The adventures of Gigi the Law by Alessandro Comodin: World Cinema Alcarràs by Carla Simon: World Cinema Chiara by Susanna Nicchiarelli: World Cinema Dark Glasses by Dario Argento: Icons Delta by Michele Vannucci: Flash Forward The Eight Mountains by Felix van Groeningen, Charlotte Vandermeersch: World Cinema EO by Jerzy Skolimowski: Icons The Lord of the Ants by Gianni Amelio: Icons Monica by Andrea Pallaoro: World Cinema Sacro GRA by Gianfranco Rosi: New Perspectives on 21st Century Documentary Scarlet by Pietro Marcello: Gala Presentation
2021	A Chiara by Jonas Carpignano: World Cinema Il buco by Michelangelo Frammartino: World Cinema Django and Django: Sergio Corbucci Unchained by Steve Della Casa, Luca Rea: Flash Forward For Lucio by Pietro Marcello: Flash Forward Freaks vs. the Reich by Gabriele Mainetti: Flash Forward The Hand of God by Paolo Sorrentino: Icons Onoda - 10.000 nights in the jungle by Arthur Harari: Flash Forward Small Body by Laura Samani: World Cinema Three Floors by Nanni Moretti: Icons
2020	200 Meters by Ameen Nayfeh: A Window on Asian Cinema The Macaluso Sisters by Emma Dante: Flash Forward Il mio corpo by Michele Pennetta: Documentary Showcase Notturno by Gianfranco Rosi: Wide Angle Nowhere Special by Uberto Pasolini: World Cinema Padrenostro by Claudio Noce: World Cinema The Predators by Pietro Castellitto: Flash Forward The Ties by Daniele Luchetti: Open Cinema Tigers by Ronnie Sandahl: Flash Forward
2019	5 is the Perfect Number by Igor Tuveri aka Igort: Flash Forward Competition All My Crazy Love by Gabriele Salvatores: Icons Marghe and Her Mother by Mohsen Makhmalbaf: Icons Martin Eden by Pietro Marcello: Open Cinema Maternal by Maura Delpero: World Cinema The Mayor of Rione Sanità by Mario Martone: World Cinema Paradise by Davide Del Degan: Flash Forward Competition Sole by Carlo Sironi: World Cinema The Traitor by Marco Bellocchio: Icons
2018	Capri-Revolution by Mario Martone: World Cinema Dogman by Matteo Garrone: World Cinema The Fight by Marco Bellocchio: Wide Angle Happy as Lazzaro by Alice Rohrwacher: World Cinema Loro by Paolo Sorrentino: World Cinema The man who bought the moon by Paolo Zucca: Flash Forward Competition Ricordi? by Valerio Mieli: Flash Forward Out of Competition Twin Flower by Laura Luchetti: Flash Forward Out of Competition We'll be Young and Beautiful by Letizia Lamartire: Flash Forward Competition What You Gonna Do When The World’s On Fire? by Roberto Minervini: Wide Angle
2017	Equilibrium by Vincenzo Marra: World Cinema Il figlio, Manuel by Dario Albertini: Flash Forward · Out of Competition the Intruder by Leonardo Di Costanzo: World Cinema The Leisure Seeker by Paolo Virzì: World Cinema Poison - The Land of the Fires by Diego Olivares: Flash Forward Competition Rainbow - A private affair by Paolo Taviani: World Cinema Where the Shadows Fall by Valentina Pedicini: Flash Forward · Out of Competition
2016	At War for Love by Pierfrancesco Diliberto aka Pif: Open Cinema Fräulein - A Winter Tale by Caterina Carone: Flash Forward Competition The Marvelous Spiral by Massimo D'Anolfi, Martina Parenti: Wide Angle The Mountain by Amir Naderi: World Cinema On the Trail of My Father by Marco Segato: Flash Forward - Out of Competition Sweet Dreams by Marco Bellocchio: World Cinema Tale of a fearless Child. Dedicated to Iqbal by Michel Fuzellier, Babak Payami: Wide Angle - Animation Showcase La vita possibile by Ivano De Matteo: World Cinema Worldly Girl by Marco Danieli: Flash Forward - Out of Competition
2015	Banat by Adriano Valerio: Flash Forward Competition A bigger splash by Luca Guadagnino: Gala Presentation Blanka by Kohki Hasei: A Window on Asian Cinema Blood of my Blood by Marco Bellocchio: World Cinema Long Live the Bride by Ascanio Celestini: Flash Forward Out of Competition The Other Side by Roberto Minervini: Wide Angle - Busan Cinephile Award Tale of Tales by Matteo Garrone: World Cinema The Wait by Piero Messina: Open Cinema Youth by Paolo Sorrentino: World Cinema
2014	Black Souls by Francesco Munzi: World Cinema Bridges of Sarajevo by Aida Begic, Leonardo Di Costanzo, Jean-Luc Godard, Kamen Kalev, Isild Le Besco, Sergei Loznitsa, Vincenzo Marra, Ursula Meier, Vladimir Perisic, Cristi Puiu, Marc Recha, Angela Schanelec, Teresa Villaverde: World Cinema The Dinner by Ivano De Matteo: World Cinema Hammer & Oranges by Diego Bianchi: Flash Forward Competition Hungry Hearts by Saverio Costanzo: World Cinema Leopardi by Mario Martone: World Cinema Misunderstood by Asia Argento: World Cinema Pasolini by Abel Ferrara: World Cinema The Salt of the Earth by Wim Wenders, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado: Wide Angle When the Rooster Crows by Leonardo Cinieri Lombroso: Southeast Asian Cinema The Wonders by Alice Rohrwacher: World Cinema
2013	The Best Offer by Giuseppe Tornatore: World Cinema Intrepido - A lonely hero by Gianni Amelio: World Cinema The Referee by Paolo Zucca: Flash Forward - In Competition Sacro GRA by Gianfranco Rosi: World Cinema Salvo by Antonio Piazza, Fabio Grassadonia: Flash Forward - Out of Competition A street in Palermo by Emma Dante: World Cinema
2012	Caesar Must Die by Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani: World Cinema The Commander and the Stork by Silvio Soldini: World Cinema Cusutu n’ Coddu (Cucito addosso) by Giovanni La Pàrola: Wide Angle Dormant Beauty by Marco Bellocchio: World Cinema Pinocchio by Enzo D'Alò: Open Cinema Reality by Matteo Garrone: World Cinema A Special Day by Francesca Comencini: World Cinema Steel by Stefano Mordini: Flash Forward
2011	The Cardboard Village by Ermanno Olmi: World Cinema Easy by Francesco Bruni: World Cinema Habemus Papam by Nanni Moretti: World Cinema La-Bàs - Criminal Education by Guido Lombardi: Flash Forward - Best Film Missione di pace by Francesco Lagi: World Cinema Seven Acts of Mercy by Gianluca De Serio, Massimiliano De Serio: World Cinema Summer Games by Rolando Colla: World Cinema Terraferma by Emanuele Crialese: World Cinema
2010	Afraid of the Dark by Massimo Coppola: Flash Forward Basilicata coast to coast by Rocco Papaleo: World Cinema Certified Copy by Abbas Kiarostami: Gala Presentation The House by the Medlar tree by Pasquale Scimeca: World Cinema The Passion by Carlo Mazzacurati: Open Cinema Le quattro volte by Michelangelo Frammartino: World Cinema Through Korean cinema by Leonardo Cinieri Lombroso: Wide Angle Vodka lemon by Hiner Saleem: Gala Presentation We believed by Mario Martone: World Cinema A Woman by Giada Colagrande: World Cinema
2009	The Big Dream by Michele Placido: World Cinema Cosmonaut by Susanna Nicchiarelli: flash forward competition The Dust of Time by Theo Angelopoulos: World Cinema Eden is West by Costa Gavras: World Cinema Giallo/Argento by Dario Argento: Special Programs in Focus - Dario Argento Giulia doesn’t date at night by Giuseppe Piccioni: World Cinema I Am Love by Luca Guadagnino: Gala Presentation Many Kisses Later by Fausto Brizzi: World Cinema Sleepless by Dario Argento: Special Programs in Focus - Dario Argento The Time That Remains by Elia Suleiman: Wide Angle - Documentary Showcase Vincere by Marco Bellocchio: World Cinema White Noise by Alberto Fasulo: Wide Angle - Documentary Showcase The White Ribbon by Michael Haneke: World Cinema The White Space by Francesca Comencini: World Cinema
2008	At a Glance by Sergio Rubini: Midnight Passion Il divo by Paolo Sorrentino: World Cinema Gomorrah by Matteo Garrone: Open Cinema The Lark Farm by Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani: Retrospective On Taviani Brothers Lorna's Silence by Luc Dardenne, Jean-Pierre Dardenne: World Cinema Maybe God is ill by Franco Brogi Taviani: World Cinema A Perfect Day by Ferzan Ozpetek: World Cinema Sandrine in the Rain by Tonino Zangardi: World Cinema Three Monkeys by Nuri Bilge Ceylan: World Cinema
2007	Black Sun by Krzysztof Zanussi: World Cinema Fallen Heroes by Paolo Franchi: World Cinema The Girl by the Lake by Andrea Molaioli: World Cinema It's a Free World... by Ken Loach: World Cinema My Brother is an Only Child by Daniele Luchetti: World Cinema One Hundred Nails by Ermanno Olmi: World Cinema
2006	Azur and Asmar by Michel Ocelot: Open Cinema The Caiman by Nanni Moretti: World Cinema The Golden Door by Emanuele Crialese: World Cinema Ten Canoes by Rolf de Heer: World Cinema The Wind that Shakes the Barley by Ken Loach: Open Cinema
2005	Hidden by Michael Haneke: World Cinema Once you're born you can no longer hide by Marco Tullio Giordana: World Cinema Persona non grata by Krzysztof Zanussi: World Cinema Tickets by Ermanno Olmi, Abbas Kiarostami, kKen Loach: Special Programm
2004	2046 by Wong Kar-Wai: Openening Good morning, night by Marco Bellocchio: World Cinema Tropical malady by Apichatpong Weerasethakul: A Window on Asian Cinema The weeping meadow by Theo Angelopoulos: Retrospective on Theo Angelopoulos
2003	The Dreamers by Bernardo Bertolucci: World Cinema L'isola by Costanza Quatriglio: World Cinema
2002	Bear's kiss by Sergei Bodrov: World Cinema Kedma by Amos Gitai: World Cinema A Lucky Day by Sandra Gugliotta: World Cinema Monday morning by Otar Iosseliani: World Cinema
2001	Eden by Amos Gitai: Section: World Cinema No Man's Land by Danis Tanovic: Section: World Cinema Off to the revolution by a 2cv by Maurizio Sciarra: Section: World Cinema

Busan International Film Festival

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30th Edition

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