BUSAN International Film Festival

Master Class: NA Hong-jin, A Genre of His Own

Master Class: The Cinematic Visions of Alfonso CUARÓN

Busan Cinema Center Cinema 1

Actors’ House: KIM Goeun

Oct 7 (Wed) ~ Oct 13 (Tue)

OPEN TALK

Open Talk

Busan Cinema Center Roof Theater

Actors’ House: KIM Minha

Special Talk: The Cinematic Life of Ann Hui, Winner of the Camellia Award

SPECIAL EVENT

Busan Cinema Center Cinema 2

Master Class: Lav DIAZ - Time and Memory

Oct 9 (Fri)

Actors’ House: RYU Seung-ryong

Oct 9 (Fri)

Oct 7 (Wed) ~ Oct 11 (Sun)

OUTDOOR STAGE GREETING

Outdoor Stage Greeting

Busan Cinema Center Roof Theater

Actors’ House: JU Jihoon

10.09 (Fri)

Master Class: Bertrand MANDICO, A Magician of Wild Cinema

Oct 10 (Sat)

Master Class: Rintaro, a Living Legend of Japanese Animation

Oct 10 (Sat)

Actors’ House: SHIN Mina

Oct 10 (Sat)

Oct 7 (Wed) ~ Oct 12 (Mon)

SPECIAL TALK

Special Talk

Varies by Event

Talk-to-Talk-Scene Stealer: Actor KIM Kukhee

Oct 12 (Mon)

Talk-to-Talk-Scene Stealer: Actor KIM Jaechul

Oct 12 (Mon)

Talk-to-Talk-Scene Stealer: Actor GONG Minjeung

Oct 13 (Tue)

Talk-to-Talk-Scene Stealer: Actor PARK Jiyeon

Oct 13 (Tue)

Oct 8 (Thu) ~ Oct 14 (Wed)

CINE CLASS

Cine Class

Varies by Event

Talk-to-Talk-Scene Stealer: Actor IM Seongjae

Oct 14 (Wed)

Talk-to-Talk-Scene Stealer: Actor KIM Junhan

Oct 14 (Wed)

PARK Sun Young Programmer

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The Kinder Programmer

THE KINDER PROGRAMMER

[BIFF 2026] The Kinder Programmer - PARK Sunyoung

It seems that summer, with its relentless heat, is finally drawing to a close. Today, Busan was under a strong wind advisory. And as the night air on my way home from work gradually begins to feel a little cooler, I can really feel that the festival is just around the corner. Around this time ev

2026/09/11

Selection Review

There Will Be Snow

VERDICT: Chinese filmmaker Story Chen makes her bow at Busan with 'There Will Be Snow', a futuristic, frosty and strangely forbidding first feature about two former lovers reuniting in their dystopian

2026/10/13 BY Clarence Tsui

The Day After Sunday

The writer/director’s follow-up to ‘Grown-ups’ and ‘Fly On’ premieres in Busan competition Dir: Takuya Kato. Japan/France. 2026. 82minsTakuya Kato’s third feature is an exploration of a relationship f

2026/10/13 BY Elizabeth KERR

Parallel Tales

VERDICT: Art and life take turns imitating each other in a long cascade of intricately interwoven stories in Asghar Farhadi’s ‘Parallel Tales’, part engrossing puzzle and part a repetitively revolving

2026/10/10 BY Deborah Young

Possible Love

VERDICT: A working class family fallen into poverty becomes embroiled with a wealthy married couple who have a creepy agenda in Lee Chang-dong’s heartfelt depiction of the aftermath of a failed strike

2026/10/09 BY Deborah Young

Satoko Always

Kasumi Arimura, Hikari Ishida and young breakout Kashun Himeno play three women with the same name, who tap into their creative sides in this charming Busan competition entry. Three total strangers, w

2026/10/13 BY James Marsh

The Table: Day and Night

Kim Jong-kwan’s follow-up to 2016’s ‘The Table’ stars Shim Eun-kyung and Han Sun-hwaDir: Kim Jong-kwan. South Korea. 2026. 80minsA chic neighbourhood café bears witness to the various romantic trial

Long Long Night

Youm Kyu-bock’s feature debut plays Busan competition following a Toronto premiere Dir: Youm Kyu-bock. South Korea. 2026. 99minsA lone White Boulder Rhinoceros raised by a herd of elephants in Africa

silver express

Miki Tanaka’s Busan competition title features a strong central performance from Yui Okamoto Dir/scr: Miki Tanaka. Japan. 2026. 97minsA sensitive drama about a young woman wrestling with her sexual i

IBUKU

Ayushita Nugraha also stars in Eddie Cahyono’s Busan competition title Dir/scr: Eddie Cahyono. Indonesia/Japan. 2026. 96minsEconomic privation, labour abuses, generational disconnect and patriarchal

Shaving

Kim Jung-hoon’s follow-up to 2013’s ‘Tinker Ticker’ bows in Busan competition Dir: Kim Jung-hoon. South Korea. 2026. 93minsA restorative long weekend intended to be one of many steps in a young woman’