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Seoul, October 6 (efe) .- The 26th edition of the Busan International Film Festival kicked off Wednesday for a period of 10 days marked by a resemblance to normality as vaccinations against Covid-19 continue in South Korea .
Among the titles presented, Memoria by Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul, winner of the jury prize in Cannes with Tilda Swinton, which plunges the viewer into the heart of the violence in Colombia.
Mexican director Michel Franco presented Sundown, an intimate drama starring Tim Roth (with whom he previously worked in Chronic) and French-English actress Charlotte Gainsbourg.
Tim Roth also stars in another film co-produced by Mexico, “Bergman Island” by Mia Hansen Love, a production shot on the island of Faro, where Swedish director Ingmar Bergman has lived and resided.
The event – one of the largest in Asia and hosted in South Korea’s second largest city – returns this year on a larger scale after the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2020 edition were canceled. and the absence of foreign artists due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The festival will feature 223 productions from 70 countries with screenings staged at half capacity while 54% of South Korea’s population has been fully vaccinated.
The jury of the official section, devoted to Asian productions by new filmmakers this year, is chaired by Indo-Canadian director Deepa Mehta.
A reimagined version of the German tragicomedy Knockin ‘on Heaven’s Door’ (1997) by South Korean director Im Sang-soo, Heaven: to the land of Happiness, will be the first film presented at the twenty-sixth edition of the festival.
The biographical film Anita by Hong Kong singer Anita Mui directed by Leung Longman is the feature film chosen to close the exhibition. EFE
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