The 13th Pusan International Film Festival took place on October 2 to 10, 2008 in Busan, South Korea. A total of 315 films from 60 countries were screened at the festival.
The event opened with The Gift to Stalin by Kazakh director Rustem Abdrashev. South Korean Yoon Jong-chan's I Am Happy closed the festival. The event held 827 screenings and was attended by 198,818 people.
Juries
New Currents
- Anna Karina, Danish-French actress, Head Juror
- Samira Makhmalbaf, Iranian director
- Santosh Sivan, Indian director
- Lee Hwa-si, South Korean actress
- Karl Baumgartner, German film producer
BIFF Mecenat Award
- Ahn Jung-sook, former director of Korean Film Council
- Jean-Pierre Rehm, head of Marseille Festival of Documentary Film
- Zhang Xian-min, Chinese film professor
Sonje Award
- Kim-Jho Gwangsoo, Korean film producer
- Roger Gonin, French director
- Calida Uabumrungjit, Thai project director
NETPAC Award
- Mohamed Atebbai, Iranian film critic
- Jeannette Paulson Hereniko, former Hawaii International Film Festival director
- Edward Delos Santos Cabagnot, programmer of Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival
FIPRESCI Award
- Elise Domenach, French film critic
- Hynek Pallas, Swedish film critic
- Dubravka Lakić, Serbian film critic
- Bitopan Borborah Rinju, Indian film critic
- Shin Kang-ho, South Korean film critic
Official selection
Opening and closing films
Gala Presentation
A Window on Asian Cinema
New Currents
Korean Cinema Today
Korean Cinema Retrospective
World Cinema
Awards
- New Currents Award: Land of Scarecrows by Roh Gyeong-tae (South Korea/France) and Naked of Defenses by Masahide Ichii (Japan)
- Special Mention: Members of the Funeral by Baek Seung-bin (South Korea) and Er Dong by Jin Yang (China)
- BIFF Mecenat Award: Mental by Soda Kazuhiro (Japan/United States) and Old Partner by Lee Chung-ryoul (South Korea)
- Sonje Award: Andong by Rommel Tolentino (Philippines) and Girl by Hong Sung-hoon (South Korea)
- NETPAC Award: Members of the Funeral by Baek Seung-bin (South Korea) and Treeless Mountain by So Yong Kim (United States/South Korea)
- FIPRESCI Award: Jalainur by Zhao Ye (China)
- KNN Award: 100 by Chris Martinez (Philippines)
- The Asian Filmmaker of the Year: Gulnara Sarsenova
- Korean Cinema Award: Richard Peña
References
External links
- Official website
