The 24th Busan International Film Festival will be held from March 3 to 12. Especially, this year's 100th anniversary of Korean film, many stars are looking for Busan and have a 10-day festival.
The opening ceremony, which will be held at 7 pm on March 3, will be hosted by actors Jung Woo-sung and Lee Ha-nui. As two people who appear in a number of works, shine Korean movies, and boast a serious gesture, they are interested in the progress of their work.
Cho Yeo-jung and Park Myung-hoon of Parasite (director Bong Joon-ho) who won the Golden Palm Prize at the 72nd Cannes Film Festival, as well as Uhm Jung-hwa, Cho Jin-woong, Son Hyun-joo, Lee Jung-hyun, Chun Woo-hee, Kim Ui-sung, Kwon Yul, Yoo Tae-oh, Eugene, Kim Hye-sung, Bae Jeong-nam, Kim Gyu-ri, Lee Yeol-eum, Seo Ji-seok, Kwon Hae-hyo Actors such as Jang Hye-jin, Tae In-ho, Lee Ga-seop, and Son Eun-seo attend the opening ceremony and shine the red carpet. Kim Ji-mi, Ahn Sung-ki and Im Kwon-taek, the big stars of the Korean film industry, also participate in the opening ceremony and put their strength on the festival.
The program Do You Know Kim Ji-mi will be held at Beef Square in Nampo-dong, and Kim Ji-mi and Ahn Sung-ki will be held on the 4th, and Kim Ji-mi and Jeon Do-yeon will be holding open talk on the 5th. Cho Jin-woong and Kim Gyu-ri also join the special program for their senior Kim Ji-mi.
As it is the 100th anniversary of the Korean film, the directors who shine Korean movies also shine Busan. Director Lee Chang-dong will attend the Forum Beef section and director Im Kwon-taek and director Park Chan-wook will talk to the audience with their representative works, Sopyonje and Old Boy.
Hirokazu Koreeda of Japan, the main character of the Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or last year, looks for Busan with his new film The Truth About Fabianne. Hirokazu Koreeda was selected as the Asian Film of the Year.
Kim Hee-ae, the main character of the closing film To Yun Hee (director Lim Dae-hyung), will also visit Busan to communicate with the audience.
Above all, Hollywood actor Tim Curry Shalame is scheduled to make his first visit through Busan. Tim Curry Shalame is an actor who boasts a thick fan base in Korea with films Interstellar and Call Me By Your Name. The Netflix film The King: Henry V, starring Tim Curry Shalame, was invited to the Busan International Film Festival and he also found Korea.
Odagiri Jo, a 'regular star' who has appeared in many Korean films and frequented the Busan International Film Festival, also comes to Busan this year. Above all, Odagiri Joe added meaning to the first feature film, "The Story of Deutsche," released by Busan.
The 24th Busan International Film Festival, which is attended by many domestic and foreign stars for the 100th anniversary of the Korean film, is a Kazakh film 'horse thieves'. The Way of Time (director Yelan Nurmukhambetov) was selected as the opening film and opened the door of the festival, and the closing film was selected to Yun Hee.