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Festival Reports

32nd Busan International Short Film Festival

System Administrator Monday August 3, 2015

 At the 32th Busan Int’l Short Film Festival (from April 24-28, 2015, South Korea), the festival has persevered in upholding the development of the Busan film culture and industry. Each year, the BISFF invites a Guest Country to introduce their short films to understand not only their film aesthetics but also their culture. Sweden was selected this year and the audience could see short films by Ingmar Bergman and other master directors. The festival also highlighted short films made by young talented Swedish directors of the modern generation.

One of the most notable changes this year was the launch of the Korean Film Competition. BISFF decided that local films had to be as vigorously showcased as foreign films. This year BISFF became the second short film festival in Asia to join NETPAC (Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema), and launched the Netpac Award for Best Asian Short.

For five days, BISFF showed 130 films from 34 countries, including 62 competing films that were chosen out of 4,627 films submitted from 114 countries. The first Netpac Award of BISFF went to Ketchup by directors, Yan Baishen and Guo Chunning (China), who expressed in their short animation the painful memory of Chinese history. The jury was impressed by “the aesthetic and experimental use of animation in portraying the personal and political history, to evoke individual pain and the memory of nation.”

The Bigger Picture directed by Daisy Jacobs (UK) was awarded the Grand Prix for Best Picture in the international competition category. The jury commented on this outstanding artwork that “in a time where animation is dominated by computer technology, this movie feels like a breath of fresh air, cleverly combining handcrafted 2D and 3D elements to make the story come alive.” Ganju by Wang Chia Chun (Taiwan) was awarded the Excellence Award for Best Picture, and Eden’s Edge by Gerhard Treml and Leo Calice (Austria) took the Jury Prize.

Please by Sangah Lee won best short film and awarded the Grand Prix in the Korean competition. This film impressed the jury for “the convincing cinematic development of its atmosphere, which is mainly achieved through its careful camerawork, closely observing its main characters and a very minimal use of dialogue.” Mirror in Mind by Seunghee Kim and Mammoth Man, the Ancient Warrior by Sejun Heo were awarded the Excellence Award for Best Picture and the Jury Prize respectively.

Meanwhile, Anchang Chinese Restaurant by Hyunjee Choi (Korea) was awarded the Grand Prix for Best Picture in the Operation Kino section for “creating a true sense of the place and people with a cinematic approach and full use of the medium.” The Excellence Award for Best Picture went to Asea Theater by MinHyuk Lim (Korea).

Last but not least, the Busan Cinephile Award went to Nothing C.O. by Caye Casas and Albert Pintó (Spain) and the Audience Award to The First Grade by Jungho Lee (South Korea).

by Kim Mookyu

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