Busan International Film Festival closes today (the 15th)… Ten-day film festival comes to an end

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This year’s Busan International Film Festival will close after a ten-day film festival.

The 31st Busan International Film Festival (BIFF), which opened on the 6th, will conclude with its closing ceremony at 6 p.m. today. The closing ceremony will be hosted by actor Im Si-wan.

At the festival’s closing ceremony, the Busan Awards ceremony will be held, and the results for the 13th invited works in the competition section will be announced. The Busan Awards are expected to select winners and recipients across five categories (Grand Prize, Director’s Award, Jury Special Prize, Actor Award, and Artistic Contribution Award). The Grand Prize-winning work will be screened as the closing film and will qualify for submission to the Academy Awards’ International Feature Film category.

This year’s Busan International Film Festival met audiences with a schedule that, for the first time, opened on a Tuesday and extended longer through the weekend.

According to the festival organizers, as of the 10th, the fifth day of the festival, the number of attendees at program events surpassed 50,000. These events include Open Talks, outdoor stage greetings, and Aju Damdam held at the Cinema Hall’s outdoor event venue, as well as indoor events such as Cine Class and Actors’ House.

Meanwhile, a total of 247 films were screened at this year’s BIFF, six more than last year, and world-renowned directors and actors visited Busan to enjoy the festival.

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