14th Busan International Film Festival
The 14th Busan International Film Festival was held from October 8 to October 16, 2009, in Busan, South Korea.
A total of 355 films from over 70 countries were screened, beating the record set in the last festival. With a total attendance of 173,516, it had 98 world premieres and 46 international premieres.
The 9.9 billion won event opened with the South Korean film Good Morning President, directed by Jang Jin and closed with the Chinese film The Message, directed by Chen Kuo-fu and Gao Qunshu.Program
Opening Film
Gala Presentation
New Currents
Korean Cinema Today - Vision
Korean Cinema Retrospective
Archeology of Korean Cinema
World Cinema
Wide Angle
Asian Short Film Competition
Short Film Showcase
Documentary Competition
Documentary Showcase
Animation Showcase
Open Cinema
Special Program in Focus
Mabuhay! Pinoy Indi - Cinema!
Yash Chopra: Asian Filmmaker of the Year
Ani-Asia!: A Leap of Asian Feature Animation 4
Dario Argento Falling in Giallo : Truth of the Invisible
HA Kil-chong and New American Cinema: Searching for New Languagesa
Special Commemoration of the Late Jang Jin-young - Remembering the Films of a Beautiful Actress
Midnight Passion
Closing Film
Awards
- New Currents Award
- *Kick Off - Shawkat Amin Korki
- *I'm in Trouble! - So Sang-min
- **Special Mention: Squalor - Giuseppe Bede Sampedro
- Flash Forward Award - Last Cowboy Standing - Zaida Bergroth
- *Special Mention - Miss Kicki - Håkon Liu
- Korean Cinema Award
- *Riccardo Gelli
- *Jeannette Paulson Hereniko
- Asian Filmmaker of the Year - Yash Chopra
- Sonje Award
- *Somewhere Unreached - Kim Jae-won
- *Rare Fish - Basil Vassili Mironer
- BIFF Mecenat Award
- *Earth's Women - Kwon Woo-jung
- *The Other Song - Saba Dewan
- FIPRESCI Award - Kick Off - Shawkat Amin Korki
- NETPAC Award - Paju - Park Chan-ok
- KNN Audience Award - Lan - Jiang Wenli