{"id":27566,"date":"2019-09-27T16:04:36","date_gmt":"2019-09-27T20:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rdvcanada.ca\/?p=27566"},"modified":"2019-10-01T13:30:12","modified_gmt":"2019-10-01T17:30:12","slug":"canadian-films-at-busan-international-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rdvcanada.ca\/en\/events\/canadian-films-at-busan-international-film-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Films at Busan International Film Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"27566\" class=\"elementor elementor-27566\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-4663e8f8 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"4663e8f8\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-6ad49f86\" data-id=\"6ad49f86\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-550024da elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"550024da\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Canada\u2019s got some exciting Asian premieres and several international premieres at the upcoming <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biff.kr\/eng\/\">Busan International Film Festival<\/a> (BIFF), whose 24th edition is coming up from October 3 to 12, 2019! With 299 films being showcased from 85 countries, it\u2019s no wonder BIFF is regarded as a leading festival in Asia!<\/p><p><strong>Let\u2019s take a closer look at what Canada\u2019s up to at BIFF this year, shall we? <\/strong><\/p><h3><strong>International premieres<\/strong><\/h3><ul><li>Fresh from its Toronto International Film Festival world premiere is Yonah Lewis and Calvin Thomas\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/rdvcanada.ca\/en\/product\/white-lie\/\"><em>White Lie<\/em><\/a>, screening in the World Cinema section.<\/li><li>Also in the World Cinema section is Sophie Deraspe\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/rdvcanada.ca\/en\/product\/antigone\/\"><em>Antigone<\/em><\/a>. (Side note: In other news, this feature was recently announced <a href=\"https:\/\/rdvcanada.ca\/en\/spotlight\/antigone-represents-canada-in-oscars-race\/\">as Canada\u2019s Oscar submission<\/a> for the Best International Feature Film category.)<\/li><li>M\u00e9lanie Charbonneau\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.biff.kr\/eng\/html\/program\/prog_view.asp?idx=44474&amp;c_idx=327&amp;sp_idx=&amp;QueryStep=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fabuleuses (Fabulous)<\/a>\u00a0in one of 13 first and second narrative features in competition in the international Flash Forward section.<\/li><\/ul><h3><strong>Asian premieres in the Icons section <\/strong><\/h3><ul><li>Following its international debut at the Venice International Film Festival and its North American premiere at TIFF is Atom Egoyan\u2019s latest feature <a href=\"https:\/\/rdvcanada.ca\/en\/product\/guest-of-honour\/\"><em>Guest of Honour<\/em><\/a>. (For more on the renowned Canadian filmmaker, revisit our <a href=\"https:\/\/rdvcanada.ca\/en\/spotlight\/spotlight-on-atom-egoyan\/\">spotlight<\/a>!)<\/li><li>Xavier Dolan\u2019s feature <a href=\"https:\/\/rdvcanada.ca\/en\/product\/matthias-maxime\/\"><em>Matthias &amp; Maxime<\/em><\/a>.This marks its Asian premiere, following its world premiere at Cannes earlier this year.<\/li><li>Finally, a coproduction with Canadian connections is also showing in this section: Elia Suleiman\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/rdvcanada.ca\/en\/product\/it-must-be-heaven\/\"><em>It Must Be Heaven<\/em><\/a>. At Cannes, this France-Qatar-Germany-Canada-Palestine-Turkey coproduction <a href=\"https:\/\/rdvcanada.ca\/en\/success\/canadian-cannes-winners\/\">took home a Special Mention as well as the <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/rdvcanada.ca\/en\/success\/canadian-cannes-winners\/\">FIPRESCI prize for Best Film<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/rdvcanada.ca\/en\/success\/canadian-cannes-winners\/\"> in Competition<\/a>. (And in other news, the film is also Palestine\u2019s Oscar submission for the Best International Feature Film category.)<\/li><\/ul><h3><strong>More Asian premieres<\/strong><\/h3><ul><li>Following its premiere at TIFF is Fran\u00e7ois Girard\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/rdvcanada.ca\/en\/product\/the-song-of-names\/\"><em>The Song of Names<\/em><\/a><em><u>.<\/u><\/em> Screening in the fest\u2019s World Cinema section, this Canada-UK-Hungary coproduction stars Clive Owen, Tim Roth, and Catherine McCormack.<\/li><li>Showing in the Midnight Passion section is Jeff Barnaby\u2019s Indigenous horror flick <a href=\"https:\/\/rdvcanada.ca\/en\/product\/blood-quantum\/\"><em>Blood Quantum<\/em><\/a>.<\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada\u2019s got some exciting Asian premieres and several international premieres&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":150,"featured_media":27570,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","posts_festivals-busan-2019"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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